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MMO Business Roundup: Steam activity in decline, Sea of Thieves hits 5M players, MapleStory M downloaded 3M times

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Time for a quick-and-dirty roundup of some industry news that appeals to the numerologists among our reading audience! We'll start with a look at Steam,...

‘MMOPEG’ Codename Reality seeks half a million Kickstarter bucks to ‘redefine the MMO genre’

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If immersion and realism are what you crave in a new MMORPG, take a look at Codename Reality, another new game in our field...

Sea of Thieves’ Cursed Sails update is live with new sea content, though not kraken and skeleton forts for now

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Arr mateys, are you all ready for today's deployment of Sea of Thieves' Cursed Sails? Because it's just gone live with a new video...

Cursed skeleton ships have been spotted on Sea of Thieves’ horizon

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Soon enough you'll have more to worry about in Sea of Thieves' oceans than other players and bad-tempered kraken. Rumors have it that the...

‘Full multiplayer experience’ flies into No Man’s Sky today

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There's no reason to explore the galaxy solo, thanks to today's massive No Man's Sky NEXT update. The "full multiplayer experience" has finally arrived...

Multiplayer survival sandbox Outpost Zero hits Steam early access

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The super pretty survivalbox Outpost Zero has planted roots in Steam's early access program. It's currently $15.99; tinyBuild and Symmetric Games say it's a...

The Game Archaeologist: A history of EverQuest’s expansions

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I don't know if EverQuest holds the crown title for the MMO with the most expansions, but I'm sure it's among the top three...

Arr! Puzzle Pirates: Dark Seas has fully launched on Steam

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Arrrr! If Sea of Thieves isn't doing it for you, maybe you should board a more classic ship, like Puzzle Pirates - specifically, Puzzle...

The Stream Team: Working through Outpost Zero pirate invasions

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Massively OP's MJ can't seem to get much base building done in Outpost Zero because she keeps being interrupted by rude pirates! She's not...

Sea of Thieves’ Sunken Curse Event is live with today’s patch

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Sea of Thieves is pulling another patch out of drydock today, this one with a fresh event for players of the pirate pseudo-MMO. "Cursed Mermaid...

Interview: ArtCraft’s J. Todd Coleman on prepping Crowfall’s Artisan Engine for the broader industry

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Yesterday, Crowfall studio ArtCraft announced it was spinning off a brand-new company dubbed ArtCraft Technologies that would basically turn Crowfall's engine into a marketable...

New Dawn, a survival sandbox set in the 1800s, has launched into Steam early access

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New Dawn - not to be confused with Darkfall New Dawn or Osiris New Dawn or Star Trek Online's New Dawn - is hitting...

EVE Evolved: Improving EVE Online’s organisational tools

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Throughout most of EVE Online's lifetime, players have developed their own third-party applications (and yes, spreadsheets) to help organise and enhance their gameplay. We've...

Great, now Sea of Thieves’ skeletons have gotten into the gunpowder

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Just when you thought that you could handle anything Sea of Thieves' rascally skeletons could throw at you, now they have barrels of gunpowder...

The MOP Up: Neverwinter’s five-year anniversary and Ravenloft campaign (June 24, 2018)

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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...

Sea of Thieves does a 180 on skeleton boats and is fine with it

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With skeleton ships sailing, volcanoes erupting, rowboats rowing, and the three-player brigantine vessel tempting, Sea of Thieves is firing a publicity broadside following its...

E3 2018: Hands-on with Ubisoft’s open-world pirate PvP game Skull & Bones

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So, you want to be a pirate, but Sea of Thieves isn't your cup of tea? If the issue was PvP, well, you're probably out of...

Sea of Thieves kicks off its recurring events with skeleton thrones

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Running out of stuff to do in Sea of Thieves? The developers are trying to counter those summer duldrums with recurring in-game events, the...

E3 2018: Skull and Bones fleshes out its gameplay with the Hunting Grounds

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Player choice and random map elements are the key to the meat of Skull and Bones' replayability said Ubisoft at this week's E3 2018....

EverQuesting: A guide to EverQuest II’s new Oceansfull Festival

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So there was an update in EverQuest II recently. It was major enough it had a real name. But honestly, that barely garnered a...

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