battle royale
Trademarks, copyrights, and patents: What they mean for you and for video games
Has the pace of news moved so quickly that we've already forgotten about Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene's statement that video games lack any IP copyright...
SpatialOS ‘tactical shooter MMO’ Project X will show off gameplay footage in February
Back in September of last year, we covered a mysterious "tactical shooter MMO" called Projext X by Automaton Games. Its chief claims to fame...
Meet survival sandbox Miscreated and its 2018 plans
Have you heard of Miscreated? If not and you are a fan of the survival genre, you might want to add it to your...
Darwin Project lets players and hosts explore their inner griefer
So you probably expected a bunch of battle royale games to pop up on Steam this year, given the remarkably popularity of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds...
Fortnite’s map update spawns a new city and biomes today
It may not be exactly all-new, but Fortnite's battle royale map is definitely improved thanks to today's loudly trumpeted update.
Patch V.2.2.0 expands and enhances the...
Fortnite racks up 40 million downloads, boasts about its success
Forty million downloads. That's the staggering number that Epic Games is tossing around concerning its incredibly successful Fortnite after a busy holiday season. That's...
The MOP Up: Monster Hunter World merch (January 14, 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...
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...
Hi-Rez Expo 2018: Hands-on with Paladins Battlegrounds, the game’s new battle royale mode
Paladins got not one but four announcements at this year's Hi-Rez Expo. There's a brand-new team death match mode coming as well as new...
Hi-Rez Expo 2018: Paladins introduces battle royale mode, new champion Moji, and battle cat mounts
Big brother SMITE isn't getting all the attention at this year's Hi-Rez Expo 2018 - Paladins is definitely seeing some love too. The team-based shooter got...
Fortnite adds silencers in its first Battle Royale update of 2018
The first Fortnite update of the new year has arrived for the Battle Royale mode, and it introduces the silenced pistol along with a...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds reaches 3M concurrent players, promises polish and features for 2018
Welcome to another episode of Ridiculously Large Numbers! Today on RLN, we invite back frequent guest PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, who has an announcement to make:...
Perfect Ten: 20 multiplayer games to watch in 2018
A couple of weeks ago I covered 20(ish) MMORPGs that we are looking forward to seeing develop, test, and launch in 2018. But as...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2018
With 2017 drawing to a close and 2018 rushing up to meet us, the Massively OP team has regrouped for another round of bold...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds moves over one million Xbox One units
Two days, one million copies sold. It's just another record for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' mantle.
The battle royale shooter moved over a million units during the...
Fortnite kicks off Battle Royale Season 2
Christmas or a new season of battle royale? With Fortnite, both are feasible, desirable, and doable.
The nominally zombie-themed survival builder kicked off Battle Royale...
The developer of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds laments the lack of video game IP protection
Did you know that there's no real IP protection for video games? We didn't know that either; we seem to recall a lot of...
H1Z1 preps first-ever free week and holiday outfit
Ever been curious about original-flavor H1Z1 and its battle royale sauce? You can try it out without having to drop any money during the...
Fortnite is getting a new large-scale battle royale mode
Over the past weekend, Fortnite managed to hit a peak of 1.3 million concurrent users and 30M total users. That's a lot of people....
Tencent may be bringing H1Z1 to China
The easiest way to ensure that no one is really fighting over who gets to be at the top of the battle royale genre...
