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Wait, what did that headline say? Did Black Desert really make a cool two million in just a week? Apparently so! According to FreeMMOStation.com, the Korean fantasy title made 2.3 billion KWN ($2 million) in its first week of open beta in the country. Those sales were powered by Black Desert's impressive 1.5 million registered users. Now the question is, when...

I've been spending my gaming time lately PvPing in Guild Wars 2 in an attempt to reinkindle my old obsession with World of Warcraft battleground-style gameplay. It's working: I really love the GW2 maps, and it thrills me that it's one more fun facet of a game I already enjoy more than most titles still alive today. (Of course, there's no...

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! Daybreak dominated the headlines during MOP's first week back online, with layoffs, resignations, and DDOS attacks that had former devs defending the team and players hoping for reassurance. Our own MJ Guthrie discussed the fate of SOE...

What's new with Shroud of the Avatar? Quite a lot if you're judging by the latest lengthy update (#112 for those keeping score at home). There's an early look at the Necropolis dungeon, which backers will be exploring in "a few short weeks." The post also contains some gorgeous pics of a new "marshy island" region called Verdantis Shardfall as...

As I type this, Massively Overpowered's Kickstarter campaign sits comfortably at $54,323. We hit our initial $50k funding goal in roughly 48 hours. We're on pace to smash through our $75k stretch goal before the month ends. Thanks to the miracle of crowdfunding, the Massively team and I get to keep doing what we love to do instead of...

Camelot Unchained's Mark Jacobs says that his team is currently in "soft crunch" mode as CU moves closer to its alpha phase. Said alpha will be "tech-heavy and feature-light," and the devs will need "large crowds" to log in and break stuff. City State has also hired a full-time sound engineer by the name of Daniel Beck, who has helpfully...

In the years that I've been playing and covering MMOs, I've noticed that there are two distinct phases when it comes to introducing a new game. The first is the big marketing push, as the team introduces the MAJOR TALKING POINTS and attempts to overwhelm players with how this will be the MMO to end all MMOs due to...

Welcome back to One Shots, Massively OP's weekly salute to excellent and interesting player screenshots! It feels good to be in our new home and able to post larger pics. When we sounded the evacuation alarm from Massively, I forgot to rescue the remainder player screenshots from our One Shots email account. Fortunately, our EIC Bree was of a much...

In the northern parts of the US, we are currently in the grips of a particularly brutal winter. Snow, ice, frostbite, polar bear attacks, and tauntings by the seasonally superior Canadian military are all a part of life these days. And as much as I'm not a fan of continually shoveling my driveway, I have to say that I...

Planning a trip to Iceland for this year's EVE Online Fanfest? If so you'll probably want to look at CCP's latest blog post, which focuses on what there is to see and do when you're not watching panels or consuming vast quantities of alcohol. One of the main events is Worlds Collide, a PvP contest that pits pilots from EVE's original server,...