SOE has put out a press release today stating that Planetside will launch in the U.S. May 20. Also, the game will come with a 30 day free trial when you buy it. Here's a clip from the release:
SAN DIEGO, CA � May 6, 2003 � Sony Online Entertainment Inc. (SOE), a worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online gaming, announced that its highly-anticipated massively multiplayer online first-person action game, PlanetSide� will make history when it launches on May 20. The groundbreaking game will allow thousands of players to fight online in an all-hours-of-day global war that has never been seen before in the first-person action genre. The company also announced that it will add squad-based voice chat functionality to PlanetSide, further enhancing the experience of fighting together with a squad and working as a team. PlanetSide will be available on May 20, 2003 in North American retail stores.
Note: The release says "Planetside will be available on
May 20, 2003 in North American retail stores" as opposed to the expected May 19. You can find the full press release in our
article section or at the original location
here.
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2003-05-05, 05:00 PM
PS Releases May 20th
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