Announced at Fan Faire (Vegas Aug 5-8 2010)

From SMS I sent to Dan this morning:

EQ3: only 1 PVE server. Designed for PVP from the ground up. Can run on shitty machines, a modified version of FreeRealms engine. Less classes. More like EQ1 but with sexy graphics, better than EQ2 but more stylised with more colour and contrast. A reimagining of the EQ universe - doesn't continue a story from either game. Will coexist with all games. Eventually will release on PS3.

Interesting that they're going for the PvP focus. I guess they're pushing for a different market to WoW, give them more of a selling point.

Yeah. I think they want to stop pushing the new features in to EQ2 and will focus more on EQ3 now.

There are some more features I didn't mention, such as less dialogue and clicky buttons and more 'interactive world' stuff. So your environment tells a story as well as your quest giver. For example - you may be able to literally see that Moppy Hibblebottom is clearly lacking 10 rats required to complete her soup (LOL I made that one up but it's pretty good).

There are some nice in-game 'art' screenshots and some concept art on YouTube:


Watch this video on Youtube.