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Last month, disabled gamer Alexander Stern filed suit against Sony, Sony Online Entertainment, and Sony Computer Entertainment America in the United States District Court for the Central District of California requesting accessibility features in game. The suit alleges that Sony is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to implement features to make its games accessible to visually impaired gamers.

Unlike gamer Brandon Cole, who got THQ’s letter back thanking his letter suggesting changes to make Smackdown series of WWE wrestling games more accessible to the blind. Stern was perplexed with the poor navigation system in Sony’s game and SOE even acted like a blind one who can not see repeated requests through postal mail and e-mail to come up with reasonable modifications to its games to make them more accessible. May this suit specifiy the ways in which other companies have made their games accessible.

Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) is a game development and game publishing division of Sony that is best known for creating massively multiplayer online games, including EverQuest, EverQuest II, The Matrix Online, PlanetSide, Star Wars More >

SOE will be hosting a "Norrathian Rat Race" in EverQuest II every day from today, October 13th, through November 6th, 2009.

In order to participate, players will need to create a Level 1 Ratonga on their server of choice, and then meet up at Hate’s Envy on the time and date scheduled for their particular server. Once there, players will compete in a race through Norrath to gather items outlined in a provided list. The players who finish fastest will be treated to an as of yet unspecified reward. For the slowpokes, a prize will be awarded for simply showing up.

View the Rat Race schedule here.

SOE has announced their 2009 Player of the Year winners. Below you’ll find the winners from EQ and EQ2, along with their entries.

From EQII:

Bownzer (alts: Bownz, Seelenschrei, Lazyone) from the Crushbone server! You can see the entry made on his behalf at TheBrasse.com!

From EQ:

Palarran from The Tribunal server!

Palarran’s entry:

Gather ’round the fire my friends To hear a tale of yore By Karana’s hand, a druid began He changed Norrath evermore

Palarran Taurina is of whom we speak We’re here to tell of deeds Big or small, he does them all All you have to do is ask, and he helps fulfill your needs

In every guild there is dissension No matter your faction, clique or friends Love them, hate them or indifferent With Palarran’s guiding hand and wisdom friction ends

Dragon kill points need to be updated? Palarran is the man that toils away Need help to get that flag? Palarran is the man who’ll lend a hand, so that here you will stay

Who lives in a knothole in Tunare’s tree? Palarran is the man and he goes meep, meep! Our shining knight… oops druid Palarran is here for keeps

Leaders come and leaders go But Palarran’s mettle n’er becomes unfurled A decade later, More >

The folks at EverQuest II have revealed new lore behind the game’s upcoming Game Update 52.

A Rime of War A dirge’s personal tale by Elna Tsernin

The waves rocking this vessel as we cross the Timorous Deep should be lulling me into a deep sleep, instead I find myself examining my actions and the tide of events that swept me here. I had been a successful dirge, and a beautiful one at that, I had always been proud of my unblemished scales and frills. A young Iksar blessed with talent beyond her years known throughout the Sebilisian Empire. I had been entertaining barons and officers with the same old collection of historical songs and tales of the Iksar nation for years; from Sebilis to Jinisk, Torsis to Charasis. When I had grown tired of those tales I looked toward the rest of Kunark. Over the next several years I trekked from one end of our isolated continent to the other learning tales of other societies and their myths. My native tongue was Sebilisian, like anyone born within the empire, but I learned enough common in these years in order to unlock stories from other cultures. But I was still young. A few More >

The folks at EverQuest II have posted a preview of Game Update 52.

Monument and Might (GU #52) is now on Test! With this… monumental… update, we’ve brought you an intriguing (and far reaching!) storyline. In Kurn’s Tower, the x2 dungeon, you will learn some vital pieces of the puzzle.

After aiding the Burynai with their investigations and getting a glimpse at a bigger mystery, an exotic stranger approaches you.

Read more here.