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Atlas Reactor arrives in China via Steam
Atlas Reactor really needs to be given some credit for striking out in a different direction when the rest of the PvP scene was...
Yes, Pyke, you’re the newest League of Legends champion
Gosh, isn't it just the worst when you've got those friends for whom everything just ties back to their deals? We get it, Karen,...
E-sports roundup: Riot and UC Berkeley, Hi-Rez’s varsity league, UK collegiate e-sports, cash for Averett e-sports
Still don't think we should take e-sports seriously? Doesn't even matter because it's happening anyway. To wit:
Riot Games has partnered with UC Berkeley to...
Ohio college begins Fortnite e-sports team and scholarship
E-sports programs and scholarships at universities stopped being newsworthy years ago once they were a dime a dozen, but a new one from Ohio's...
DOTA 2 is bleeding players, SuperData says
Things are looking slightly grim for Valve's MOBA, as SuperData reports that DOTA 2's playerbase is in decline as the game continues to lose...
Perfect Ten: Why trend-chasing doesn’t work at all for online games
Video games have always been a remarkably insular field; that's the nature of development. Someone produces Super Mario Bros, and a few years later...
League of Legends finally adds voice chat
For years now, we've been accepting our hostile insults and hyper-constructive criticism in League of Legends through team chat like chumps. Well, that's all...
MMO studios form Justice League-style alliance to combat toxicity
After years of trying to crack the serious issue of negative behavior and toxicity among their individual communities, 30 game studios and industry leaders are...
Perfect Ten: A dozen MOBAs that didn’t make it
With the insane success -- both in terms of popularity and finances -- that Dota and League of Legends spawned, you can easily understand...
MMO Business Roundup: EA Spouse 14 years later, PUBG poaching from Riot, and Funcom financials
Welcome back to another edition of our informal business roundup, where we wedge all the fun MMO industry tidbits that pile up in our...
The MOP Up: Path of Exile reads your future in the cards (February 25, 2018)
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...
Riot discloses the drop odds for League of Legends lootboxes
Mentioning lootboxes at this point is a good way to send players into paroxysms of rage regardless of how fair or unfair they are;...
Sci-fi battle arena FeArea takes the MOBA to the future
Despite the recent rash of shutdowns, game developers haven't quite given up on trying to crack into the MOBA market and siphon off that...
Massively Overthinking: Why doesn’t video game marketing reflect our demographics?
This week's Massively Overthinking topic comes to us from Steve, and it's a frustration for our team as well, I promise.
"If the following statistics...
The MOP Up: Aion makes a date with the Divine Fortress (January 28, 2018)
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...
SuperData December 2017: Fortnite and PUBG kick butt, while Destiny 2 slumps
SuperData's December 2017 global revenue chart is out, and it's good news for the industry on the whole, as holiday spending was up by...
Riot partners with the Peach Belt Conference, Blizzard takes OWL toxicity seriously with suspension and fine
E-sports is continuing its rise in respectability: ESPN reports that Riot Games has partnered with the Peach Belt Conference, known to "real" sports fans...
ASUS throws its weight behind League of Legends in China
Battle royale? Team shooters? League of Legends scoffs at these pretenders to the online throne, sitting on top of an e-sports empire that spans...
League of Legends unbans ‘reformed’ toxic player called a ‘humunculus’ by fired employee
Among last year's toxicity-in-gaming stories was the one that taught the internet an important lesson: how to spell homunculus. No, that wasn't it. It...
The MOP Up: Honoring RIFT’s Wintercharm (December 24, 2017)
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...
