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CCP calls NetEase EVE Online partnership a ‘new era for internet spaceships in China’
NetEase is making bold moves this summer. First it threatened to sue battle royale clones in retaliation for PUBG Corp.'s lawsuit. Then it dropped...
Chinese MMO company NetEase invests $50M into SpatialOS MMO platform
Improbable's SpatialOS is moving on up in the world: The company announced this week that China's NetEase has invested $50 million to acquire a...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds details a five-year plan for e-sports
Does it fill you with warm, fuzzy feelings to know that there's a nice long-term plan for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds to chase that sweet e-sports...
ArcheAge’s July content update adds sport fishing, expands fresh start server content
Despite the slightly awkward name -- "Phase 4: Reign, Part 1," really, Trion? -- this week's ArcheAge content update is chock-full of fun for...
Netease calls PUBG Corp’s copyright lawsuit ‘shameless’, Riot and Tencent win non-compete lawsuit against alleged cloner
Remember back in April, when Korea-based PUBG Corp. accused China-based Netease of ripping off PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds with its battle royale titles Knives Out (which...
Enter to win a very good boy in Neverwinter: A Darkfish Fey Wolf mount for PC in honor of Mists of Barovia
To celebrate the arrival of Mists of Barovia for Neverwinter on PC this week, PWE has kindly given Massively OP 30 mount keys to give away to our readers! Suratuk’s...
E3 2018: Hands-on with ReEvolve, Perfect World’s new mobile sandbox MMORPG
Remember how we learned that Perfect World would be showing off some new games at E3? Well, things happen at conventions like this -...
The MOP Up: Skyforge’s PvP revolution (June 17, 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...
E3 2018: Perfect World is paving the way to bring Steam to China
If you want to go somewhere to escape Steam's spreading influence, you might be tempted to head to China, where the country has officially...
Mobile MMO roundup: MapleStory M, Jurassic World Alive, Crossfire Legends, TERA M, and Icarus Mobile
Welcome back to another mobile MMO roundup, those MMOs that obviously don't count because they are played on a small screen instead of a...
Leaderboard: How much time should you put in to become a great player in the typical MMO?
Earlier this week, GIbiz put out a piece on the Shanghai Dragons, the Overwatch League e-sports team representing China. In a letter to fans,...
With 17M registered players, Trion’s voxelbox Trove launches in Japan
Trion Worlds is in an expansionist mood of late. Earlier this week, we learned Atlas Reactor was porting to Steam in China. Today, the...
Atlas Reactor arrives in China via Steam
Atlas Reactor really needs to be given some credit for striking out in a different direction when the rest of the PvP scene was...
Nexon posts strong Q1 2018 results, Final Fantasy XI mobile screens leaked
Nexon posted a strong first quarter in 2018, with its earnings call reporting that the game publisher raked in $827M in revenue (a 21%...
Hands-on with Bless Reborn at Neowiz’s San Francisco media reveal
As you probably have heard, there was a Bless influencer event this week, with a couple of media and a smattering of MMO streamers...
Chinese authorities arrest 15 more accused PUBG hackers, fining them over $5M
Bluehole and PUBG Corp are apparently continuing their government-backed crackdown on PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds cheaters.
Last week, PUBG Corp told Steam players that it takes cheating...
Enter to win a Neverwinter painted spider mount on Xbox One and PS4 from PWE and MOP!
To celebrate the arrival of the Lost City of Omu expansion for Neverwinter on console this week, PWE has granted Massively OP 20 Painted Spider mount keys to give...
Ohio college begins Fortnite e-sports team and scholarship
E-sports programs and scholarships at universities stopped being newsworthy years ago once they were a dime a dozen, but a new one from Ohio's...
PUBG Corp sues Netease for cloning PUBG in Knives Out and Rules of Survival
Let the battle royale lawsuits begin! TorrentFreak caught wind of a new lawsuit in California that ought to set all the cloners on edge:...
GDC 2018: Ultima Online post-mortem with Richard Garriott, Starr Long, Raph Koster, and Rich Vogel
Plenty of panels at GDC are recorded and uploaded to the internet weeks after the event, including this one. It's not quite the same...
