MMORPG.com's Carolyn Koh attended the recent SOE Fan Faire in Las Vegas. While there, she had a chance to catch up with the team from EQ to talk about their game, its tenth anniversary, and the next expansion.

Ten years is a long time for a game to exist. Graphics get outdated, technology moves on, visionaries move on to other games and the game itself changes and morphs into a different creature altogether. EverQuest, the granddaddy of 3-D MMORPGs has gone through many updates including an over-haul of its avatars and graphics engines, and a total of 15 expansions to date.

Artist Donato Giancarlo was chosen to create new EverQuest artwork for its 10th Anniversary, an oil painting that was unveiled in January at the CES, and all the paintings that SoE had acquired from Keith Parkinson, Larry Elmore and Donato were on display at the Fan Faire in Las Vegas.

Read the Tenth Anniversary Update