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The Daily Grind: Do you care more about an MMORPG’s playerbase or revenue?
SuperData put out a couple of reports and analyses last week that suggest Fortnite is "cannibalizing" other games, specifically in terms of revenue and...
MMO Week in Review: WoW’s War of Thorns (July 29, 2018)
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!
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Make My MMO: Camelot’s beta one, Fractured’s successful Kickstarter (July 29, 2018)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, anti-grind, PvP-optional MMO sandbox Fractured became the biggest traditional MMORPG to fund on Kickstarter this year (Temtem pulled in more cash...
Albion Online teases bosses and promises a fame boost for next week’s Merlyn deployment
Merlyn is landing in Albion Online next week, bringing a big overhaul to the game's factions - including new factional bosses for each key...
Destiny 2 previews expansion gear, plans PvP changes, investigates streaky RNG
Still got your eye on Destiny 2's Forsaken expansion coming out at the tail end of summer? Prepare your trigger finger too, as yesterday...
Camelot Unchained’s beta is now set to launch on July 31st
City State Entertainment's Mark Jacobs has just announced on today's studio Twitch stream that RvR MMORPGÂ Camelot Unchained's beta one will begin next week on...
EA would like a slice of that sweet, sweet battle royale pie, please
EA is still eyeing battle royale, but maybe not the way you're thinking. During the company's quarterly investor call this week, everyone clearly had Fortnite...
Shroud of the Avatar’s 56th update is live, with a big PvP update and bug clean-up
Shroud of the Avatar's 56th release is upon us, having been pushed live successfully yesterday. A big chunk of the update is necessary but...
Star Citizen’s Around the Verse covers ground races, 3.3 ships, and security checkpoints
Hey guys, log into Star Citizen, I wanna do a Death Race! Yeah, maybe that isn't the best nickname for the Scramble Race, which...
CCP has obliquely confirmed it’s working on a brand-new ‘action MMO’
Remember back in December, when the gaming world noticed that CCP's hiring page sought a lead designer to run "a new and highly ambitious...
The Daily Grind: What do you think about themed MMORPG guilds?
Kotaku did a recent piece on "girls only" Overwatch groups that got me thinking about themed guilds. (As it turned out, the writer found...
Massively Overthinking: Random acts of MMORPG kindness
Last week, down in the comments of an innocuous post about gamers being nice in Fortnite, a couple of MOP commenters requested a column...
Blizzard and Riot attended the International Olympic Committee’s e-sports summit this past weekend
Over the last year, we've seen a ramp-up of high-level chatter about bringing e-sports to the Olympics. Last summer the co-president of the Paris Olympic...
Riders of Icarus’s Dawn of the Magician update is live with a new class and events
Guess what's up from maintenance with a hefty update today? It's Nexon's Riders of Icarus, and the patch is called Dawn of the Magician,...
Dota 2 apes Path of Exile with transparent lockboxes for Dutch players
Remember when the Dutch gaming authorities effectively threatened to prosecute prosecute companies like Valve for vending and trading lockboxes the government agencies considered a...
Defiance 2050 has big plans for new classes, advancement, and endgame as it hits 1M players
Defiance 2050 isn't just launching and going away, oh no: Trion Worlds has a new producer letter up today detailing exactly how it's planning...
PUBG had a great June thanks to the Steam sale, SuperData says in its latest revenue ranking
SuperData's global revenue report for June 2018 is out, and it's actually not particularly exciting for the summer months as not that much has...
Overwatch’s Wrecking Ball is already kicking ass and taking names
When my husband logged off Overwatch last night, he put down his headset and said, "Yeah, Wrecking Ball is amazing, and I can't wait...
Black Desert finally answers the eternal MMORPG question: Who does laundry in this gameworld?
So who washes all the clothes your toons wear in MMORPGs? This is a topic that needs to be explored... in some other article....
MMORPG sandbox Fractured’s Kickstarter has just fully funded at over $130,000
Phew! A few weeks ago, I was not confident that Fractured's Kickstarter was going to make it, but it cleared its goal with just...