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The MOP Up: Destiny 2’s class roster (June 18, 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...
The MOP Up: EVE Valkyrie lowers its price point (June 11, 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 is using a loophole to keep selling Overwatch lockboxes in China
There's a law on the books in China that states you can't sell random loot boxes in an online game without disclosing the odds...
Twilight Spirits starts open beta testing later this month
Craving your next fast-paced action MMO fix? Netease is currently prepping Twilight Spirits for open beta, which is scheduled to arrive on June 29th.
Twilight...
Black Desert developer Pearl Abyss prepares IPO in Korea
Multiple Korean outlets are reporting that Black Desert developer Pearl Abyss is preparing an initial public offering and seeks a fall listing on the Korean stock...
Blizzard announces Overwatch Contenders e-sports ‘development league’
Blizzard has just announced "Overwatch Contenders," what it's calling a "development league for aspiring Overwatch League professionals."
"Over the first year of organized Overwatch competition,...
The Game Archaeologist: When Hellgate London got Flagshipped
It seems that it really wasn't too long ago that I was filling in the time between night classes by boning up on video...
NetEase has a smashing good first quarter 2017 thanks to mobile sales and Hearthstone
Chinese operator, developer, and publisher NetEase posted its Q1 2017 financial report this week, and the news is quite good for the company. NetEase...
The MOP Up: SMITE’s console mea culpa (May 7, 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...
Overwatch: Hero leaks, lockbox probabilities, and Korean political humor
As Asian countries are cracking down on online games with lockbox gambling, gaming companies are complying with transparency. To wit: Blizzard's Chinese Overwatch website...
Perfect Ten: Exploring MMORPGs from the far corners of the world
Have you ever noticed that while there's an entire world out there, most all of the MMORPGs we discuss and play tend to either...
Echo of Soul is heading to China (again)
Good news, Echo of Soul fans in China: The game is coming back. (It's not coming back in North America, it never left. It's...
Overwatch hits 30M players, makes Chinese free-to-play test plans
Blizzard has just announced that Overwatch has just counted 30 million players. That's buyers, mind you, as the game is buy-to-play.
However, a limited free-to-play Overwatch is...
Neverwinter claims 15M registered players across all platforms
Neverwinter has cause for celebration today: PWE has officially announced that the D&D MMORPG has counted over 15 million registered players on PC, Xbox...
RuneScape’s Jagex flourishes under Chinese ownership
Following Jagex's sale to China's Fukong Interactive Entertainment back in 2016, there's been some concern and curiosity over the fate of the studio and...
Dark Optimus Prime arrives in Transformers Online’s beta
You know that when Dark Optimus Prime shows up, things just got real.
Tencent's team brawler Transformers Online is adding the sinister version of the...
NetEase soft-launches WoW-like mobile MMORPG Crusaders of Light today
Soft-launching today on both the iOS and Android markets is a new mobile MMORPG from Netease dubbed Crusaders of Light. It was originally released...
Enter to win a Neverwinter unicorn mount on Xbox One and PS4 from PWE and MOP
To celebrate last week's arrival of the Cloaked Ascendancy expansion for Neverwinter on console, PWE has granted Massively OP 50 unicorn mount keys to give away to our readers-- 25 apiece for PlayStation...
The 2022 Asian Games will include e-sports events
Go ahead and keep mocking e-sports, but they are only getting bigger and more respectable as they keep creating tremendous piles of money. In...
Analyst suggests Tencent’s new global games service will compete with Steam
If you're not a big fan of Steam's dominance of gaming trends in the west, maybe you think a competitor will do the service...
