battle royale
Massively Overthinking: Is open-world housing really a ‘failed’ MMORPG experiment?
Massively OP's Justin Olivetti has a provocative article on his personal gaming blog, Bio Break, this week on MMORPG housing.
"I once again wonder why...
The Daily Grind: Is PUBG finally the ‘WoW killer killer’ we’ve been waiting for?
Say the words "WoW killer" to a bunch of MMORPG players in 2017 and you're bound to get eyerolls, for good reason: Even though...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds tops 2.3M concurrency, bans a fraction of that
Here's a fun game that we play around the Massively OP office: A troublemaker will come in and loudly proclaim, "You know what's a...
H1Z1 has defeated its ‘King of the Kill’ branding in a last-man-standing battle royale
Looks like at least some of the rumors last week have proven true, as Daybreak is indeed removing the "King of the Kill" branding from...
RuneScape is overrun by undead, challenges players to survive the next 10 days of Dimension of the Damned
"When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk Gielinor and there's 200 million in-game gold pieces to be won by the...
Fortnite patches battle royale, adds BattlEye anti-cheat measures, and sues cheaters
Are you one of the 10M people who've dipped into Fortnite's battle royal mode? Or perhaps one of the 500K who played concurrently this...
Daybreak is launching a pro league for H1Z1 e-sports
If you were wondering what Daybreak is up to as we have been, wonder no more: It's been putting together a pro league for...
Fortnite’s infographic claims 10 million battle royale players within the last fortnite
Remember a few days back when Fortnite broke half a million concurrent players with its contentious free-to-play battle royal mode, the one that earned...
Fortnite cracks down on cheaters, banning ‘thousands’
Smack talk all you want, but cheaters aren't lasting long in Fortnite. In fact, apparently "thousands" of miscreants have been banned already.
Earlier this week,...
Battle royale mode propels Fortnite to over seven million players, adds supply drops and duos
One million players? That was September. Now it's (early) October, and Fortnite Battle Royale has already shot across the seven million player line without...
The walking dead stagger into RuneScape for a new battle royale-style survival mode
Staggering and shuffling their way into players' worst nightmares, zombies have infested the normally cheery arena of RuneScape and need a little pruning. That's...
Fortnite’s F2P Battle Royale draws 1M players in spite of PUBG, PvE criticism
If the developer of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds was hoping that Fortnite's new battle royale mode would flop on impact, then it is sorely disappointed with...
Automaton Games takes a swing at the battle royale genre with its mystery MMO
Well now PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds will have another battle royale game to fight. UK-based Automaton Games announced that it is working on a new tactical...
The Daily Grind: Where do you stand on the Fortnite-vs.-PUBG feud?
Ever since Bluehole threw down a gauntlet at Epic's feet over the similarities between PUBG and Fortnite's battle royale mode - or more specifically,...
PUBG dev argues Fortnite spat is about Epic and Unreal Engine’s conflicts, not about owning the battle royal genre
Last week, following Epic's announcement that PvE-centric Fortnite would be getting a PvP-centric battle royal mode its paying PvE players apparently didn't want (but that's...
PvE-centric Fortnite’s new battle royal PvP mode will be free-to-play
Epic Games announced this morning that Fortnite's upcoming PvP mode will essentially be free-to-play.
The game was originally touted by Epic as a PvE survival...
Fortnite accidentally adds then removes crossplatform Xbox One/PS4 play
Update: Aww, nuts. Epic has already disabled it, calling it a "configuration issue" and bug.
Bet you've never actually ridden a physical lockbox from an...
Fortnite begins testing its battle royal game mode, launching September 26
Epic Games heard you liked battle royal game modes, so it's putting one into Fortnite. The so-called Fortnite Battle Royale is
"an all-new PvP mode...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds passes 10M sold
This year's online juggernaut is not, surprisingly enough, anything made by Valve, Blizzard, or Riot, but instead one stemmed from the mind of a...
Next Day Survival debuts, plus H1Z1, Hellion, Black Death, and Life is Feudal survivalbox news
ARK and Conan aren't the only survivalboxes in town -- in fact, several of the modern contenders in the subgenre have updates and videos this week demonstrating...
