competitive gaming
Fight or Kite: First impressions of Nexon’s new multiplayer shooter Rocket Arena
Nexon's new crossplatform multiplayer shooter Rocket Arena came out of nowhere last month and surprised everyone with a closed beta this past week. It's...
Fight or Kite: Features MMOs could borrow from successful esports titles
This week I wanted to try something a little different in our PvP-centric Fite or Kite column and take a look at a number...
Fight or Kite: The case for dueling in Guild Wars 2
Let me tell you all about one of the most obvious holes in the Guild Wars 2 PvP armor.
No, it's not the infrequent balance...
Fight or Kite: First impressions of newly free-to-play Albion Online
As soon as I heard that Albion Online was going free-to-play, I knew where I was going to spend the majority of my PvP...
Fight or Kite: Falling in line with Crowfall
"Everyone group up! Keep the formation tight. Line up and do not let anyone through that door."
We know that they have a siege weapon...
Fight or Kite: Clawing my way back into Guild Wars 2’s WvW
All aboard and welcome everyone to a brand-new series here on Massively Overpowered: Fight or Kite, our new column focusing on PvP across the...
South Korea now has a law criminalizing the act of boosting in online games
Let's say you really care about your competitive rank in a video game, but you don't have the time to actually practice and get...
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...
The Daily Grind: Are e-sports worth the effort for MMO developers?
I spend a lot of time thinking about e-sports. This is, of course, through the eyes of someone who doesn't much like e-sports as...
Analysts peg Overwatch League at a potential $100 million in its first year
One of the big announcements from last year's BlizzCon was the addition of the new Overwatch League, a project Blizzard is using to help...
Legendary Entertainment is making an e-sports film starring Will Ferrell
Well, it's official: No one gets to act as if e-sports or video games are anything less than mainstream at this point. Legendary Entertainment,...
Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan on Overwatch’s ranked play philosophy
If you were hoping that the latest development video for Overwatch from game director Jeff Kaplan would reveal the ins and outs of the...
Heroes of the Storm announces Spring Global Championship
The past few years have seen MOBAs take over the competitive gaming landscape, with just a handful of games managing to attract millions of...
Not So Massively: Top 10 most surprising NSM stories of 2015
Back in 2011, our former corporate overlords at Massively-of-old noticed that games like League of Legends were getting pretty damn popular and asked us to work...
Not So Massively: Winter game update edition (December 21, 2015)
Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really...
Not So Massively: Counter-Strike nerfs all the guns (December 14, 2015)
Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really...
Massively OP’s holiday gift guide for the ‘Not So Massively’ gamer
The holidays are approaching, and that means there's not much time left to get presents for your friends and lumps of coal for your...
Not So Massively: An amazing revamp for LoL’s Poppy (November 30, 2015)
Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really...
Not So Massively: Path of Exile’s Ascendancy expansion (November 23, 2015)
Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really...
Blade & Soul will include North American players in its next world championship
Do you want to be the best around, with nothing that will ever keep you down? Blade & Soul makes a point of being...
