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Bluehole’s CEO on how Ascent: Infinite Realm (A:IR) will breathe life into a stagnating MMORPG genre
Ready for some harsh truths, MMO players? Bluehole CEO Hyo-Seob Kim recently told GIbiz that he wasn't expecting PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds to do so well globally,...
Battle Bards Episode 110: Acoustic guitar
The Battle Bards are quite familiar with the power of the strummed guitar and lute, knowing that such simple instruments can bring down walls,...
Mobile MMO roundup: PUBG’s mobile version, Pokemon Go’s Ho-Oh, Mu Legends’ PvP, and Tera M’s launch
Welcome back to another mobile MMO roundup!
First up: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, which has yet to actually formally launch on PC, is already getting a mobile...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is coming to China with Tencent adjustments
Chinese players will soon also be allowed to play a video game about locking yourself in a box where you can scavenge for weapons...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has now set seven Guinness World Records
Bluehole and Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene ought to be pretty pleased with themselves, and not just because they're rolling around in piles of money: They...
The MOP Up: Osiris New Dawn’s terrifying space ghosts (November 19, 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...
Bluehole’s Ascent: Infinite Realm prepares for its first beta on December 13th
Let's get the bad news out of the way right out of the gate. The first beta for Ascent: Infinite Realm (the next game...
TERA races to shore up chat vulnerability
That nasty little loophole in TERA's chat that hackers were exploiting was patched up over the weekend. En Masse deployed a hotfix on the...
The MOP Up: EVE Online eases you into its universe (November 12, 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...
MMO biz roundup: The voice actor strike, e-sports crime, CCP VR, Crowfall, and new acquisitions for Tencent, EA, and Nexon
Let's end the week talking about money. What could go wrong?
The year-long video game voice actor strike is finally fully over, as more...
En Masse confirms TERA chat vulnerability and potential security breach as servers go down for emergency maintenance
Earlier today, TERA players began circulating the claim that an in-game chat vulnerability was allowing hackers to wreck up all regions of the game...
Kakao will launch Bluehole’s Ascent: Infinite Realm MMORPG in the west
Good morning! Who wants some genuinely good news for the MMORPG genre? Great. Black Desert publisher Kakao is bringing Ascent: Infinite Realm westward. That'd...
TERA’s Miniguns update drops November 30, is appropriately ridiculous and awesome
So the other day I was setting up Massively OP's award schedule for December, and I came upon our traditional award for wacky stuff...
Project W, Project Z, and God Slayer Online all teased ahead of G-Star 2017
NCsoft tipped its hand on its upcoming Project TL/Lineage Eternal do-over, Blade & Soul 2, and Aion Tempest, but it's far from the only...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds reaches 20 million copies sold
Congratulations are due to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, which has now reached the milestone of 20 million copies sold. That is a lot of people who...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds: Patch delay, avoiding the Chinese ban, and PUBG as a ‘multiplayer thriller’
Were you looking forward to the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds patch scheduled for today? Vaulting? Climbing? The new vertical maps? Sorry. It's not happening. Yet.
"We had...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds faces potential censorship in China
GIbiz has picked up a Bloomberg piece that suggests China may be poised to crack down on PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. China's Audio-Video and Digital Publishing Association...
The MOP Up: Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet announced (October 29, 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...
SuperData says PUBG has now topped both WoW and Crossfire in global revenue
SuperData announced this morning that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds continues to work its way up the revenue charts, now passing up even Crossfire. We presume the tweet...
TERA goes on pink overload for breast cancer awareness
We are sure that you are one of the good ones that do not need any prompting to give to worthy causes, such as...