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Have you heard of this game called Ninelives? It's recently started to gain some recognition with the start of its open alpha test, even though it's been in development for a few years now. If you've been jonesing for a new title that focuses heavily on exploration, this might be it. Ninelives is an "online free-to-play open world adventure RPG" that's being...

The Desert Dragon world boss in Black Desert was indisputably exactly what it said on the tin. It was a dragon, and it was in a desert. It was even an open-world boss, so it fulfilled that requirement. But could it be even more of a boss? The designers of the game's native Korean client looked at the dragon,...

The dev team over at Worlds Adrift is emerging from the holiday season on fire to make 2016 a great year for the fantastical title. In the game's first newsletter of the year, the team said that it's focusing on refining Worlds Adrift as much as possible as testing continues. "Following our last playtest, we’ve been focused on fixing and...

If you have a lifelong vendetta against all things cartographical, be prepared for a lot of stumbling around while lost in Revival. The latest dispatch from the development team explains how the game's cartography is going to work, starting with the simple fact that there needed to be a good reason for cartographers and maps to be in demand...

Massively OP reader Damonvile recently sent us a link to a Medium piece on Steam declaring 2015 the best year for Steam -- ever. Sales were up for Valve over the course of the year, peaking in December in spite of the Christmas day snafu. Intriguingly, the data suggest that over the last few months, the release pace of new...

Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review! This week, Gazillion announced that long-time CEO David Brevik was stepping down from his post and leaving the company that makes Marvel Heroes. Brevik told forum-goers and stream-watchers that he loves Marvel Heroes but wanted to step away...

In the previous edition of EVE Evolved, I looked back at some of the big highlights EVE Online throughout 2015. It was a year that revolutionised practically every aspect of EVE's day-to-day gameplay with a flood of updates, that broke the stranglehold the game's largest alliances had on territory, and that seriously advanced the in-game storyline in an awesome direction. It was also...

The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some of it gets backlogged. That’s why there’s The MOP Up: a weekly compilation of smaller MMO stories and videos that you won’t want to miss. Seen any good MMO news? Hit us up through our tips...

Daybreak's DC Universe Online is about to turn five years old, believe it or not, and the studio is planning a pair of streams (and more than a pair of player gifts) to celebrate the occasion. "Happy 5th Anniversary, DCUO! January 11, 2011, still seems like just yesterday to a lot of us, but come Monday DCUO will be celebrating...

In 1999, the year that EverQuest released, work was already underway for another fantasy MMO called World of Warcraft. It wasn't until a couple of years later that gamers got their first look at the game, but screenshots do exist from this ancient era of WoW development. Perhaps you've seen some of these pictures, perhaps not, but it's always a...