Official Site: Overwatch
Studio: Blizzard Entertainment
Launch Date: May 24, 2016
Genre: Team-Based OFPS
Business Model: B2P
Platform: PC, Xbox One, PS4
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The Soapbox: Getting to the heart of toxicity in MMOs
So we've gotten another post from a developer saying that they're going to really 100% be better about rooting out toxic players from their...
You are an Overwatch League free agent, starting now
Here's some news that should make you feel special. As of right now, as long as you're over 18 years old and play Overwatch,...
Overwatch gets serious about bad behavior yet again – for real this time, they swear
Even Mercy can't save you from Blizzard's wrath for being a cranky player.
The studio sat its playerbase down for a talk this week, saying...
Terry Crews just didn’t fit as Doomfist according to Blizzard’s team
Fans had an image in their heads about what Overwatch's Doomfist would sound like. It included Terry Crews, and it probably included him hollering...
RuneScape is a massive hit on Twitch
Time and again, we here at Massively OP have noted how RuneScape seems to be incredibly underestimated by the larger MMO community. For how...
SuperData June 2017: ROBLOX, GTAV, and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds are making bank
SuperData's global digital games revenue summary for June 2017 is out, and it's a strange melange of huge shifts and no changes at all.
On the...
The MOP Up: SamuTale’s massive new world (July 23, 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...
Blizzard adds a Diablo III senior designer, lays off audio director, and ends XP and Vista support
From zombies to demons, game designer Harrison G. Pink is no stranger to bizarre apocalypses. Pink formerly worked on Telltale Games' hit Walking Dead...
Analyst Michael Pachter’s Overwatch League skepticism and other business tidbits
Everyone's favorite gaming industry analyst Michael Pachter announced that his firm Wedbush is "skeptical that the Overwatch League will achieve much success," noting that...
Overwatch’s Doomfist was born from a mere name
"From the very moment we announced Overwatch, Doomfist was part of the story," Game Director Jeff Kaplain said in a new hero preview video....
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG is the worst for duos?
As I've been playing Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind the past week or two, my husband has been watching me from the depths of his...
Massively Overthinking: Consumer protections in the MMORPG industry
Veteran Massively OP reader Miol says he's exhausted by a recent string of stories in which MMO companies screw gamers over, one after another:...
NetEase and Kabam join Blizzard’s star-studded global Overwatch League
The ESPN report earlier this week suggesting that Blizzard has several agreements from big-name sports-affiliated venture capitalists to host Overwatch League teams across the US and East Asia...
Major sports VC companies invest in Overwatch League, Blizzard addresses meta balance
If you thought Blizzard's ask for its Overwatch League was absurdly high for your typical pro e-sports team sponsors, rest assured that they weren't...
The MOP Up: SMITE sees a Divine Light (July 9, 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...
Massively Overthinking: MMO ragequitting
Ragequitting. Most of us have probably done it once or twice from groups or single-player games or even MMO sessions in our time. My...
Doomfist punches his way onto Overwatch’s test servers
It makes sense that if you're expanding your popular team-based shooter, you'll want to introduce a character who punches really, really hard. Actually, it...
Overwatch teases Doomfist, lays out ambitious plans for e-sports league
Try not to act too surprised when Overwatch eventually announces Doomfist, as the studio isn't exactly being subtle in its leadup to the team...
Global Chat: Want to see a Magic trick?
So what does the blogging community think of the first IP-related new MMORPG to be announced in years in Magic: The Gathering? It's a little...
Warframe posts drop rates for all its loot, hoping to ‘start a trend’
Warframe's Digital Extremes is joining the very small list of online game developers being transparent about just what's in their lockboxes, lootboxes, gambleboxes, lootcrates,...
