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Take Two’s latest quarterly financial report shows GTA Online kicking ass

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Take-Two's fiscal third quarter 2017 report is good news for folks watching both Grand Theft Auto Online and the upcoming Red Dead Redemption 2...

The MOP Up: Black Desert loyalty rewards (January 15, 2017)

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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...
Actual screenshot.

Steam sets new record with 14 million concurrent users

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It seems like more or less everyone uses Steam at this point, yes? It's fairly ubiquitous? The service managed to hit a concurrency record...
FFXIV

Massively OP’s MMO guide to the Steam Winter Sale

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Do you have any money left after all of that holiday shopping, travel, and dining out? Steam would very much like to have what...

Cold Iron’s Craig Zinkievich on funding, the genre, and the MMO nature of the game

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Earlier this month, we got a curious press release from a new gaming studio called Cold Iron. I might have skipped over it but...

Identity creates a cops-and-robbers life simulator

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Are you a good or bad person at heart when you play pretend? Either way, you will have a place in Identity, an upcoming...

Player drops $1M of stolen money on a free-to-play game

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If you could spend someone else's money on a free-to-play game without shame, how much would you blow on microtransactions and other in-game advantages? For...
It's a tender moment if you don't know the context.

Choose My Adventure: Assassinating randoms in The Elder Scrolls Online

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It's weird how attitudes towards death vary depending on the video game and the structure set up. In Saints Row the Third, a friend...
Steal something that isn't yours. Why not? It isn't yours.

Grand Theft Auto Online: Import/Export brings car theft back to the forefront of the game

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After about four minutes in Grand Theft Auto, the eponymous crime becomes mundane. Stealing a car is not a complex operation; it's just how...

A Parent’s Guide to Video Games: Condensing ‘The Video Game Debate’

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Remember The Video Game Debate? The game research book edited by Thorsten Quandt and Rachel Kowert, the latter of whom we've been covering here since Massively-that-was? Good....

One Shots: A home away from home

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If you were to move into an MMO for real, where would you live? I posed this question last week to the One Shots...

Santa Truck and the PlayStation 4 are coming to APB Reloaded

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You'd better not honk, you'd better not drive, you'd better not rage-quit, I'm telling you why: Santa Truck is coming to town. Well, to...

The MOP Up: Gunjack 2 gets a launch date (November 13, 2016)

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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...

Grand Theft Auto Online removes ill-gotten currency, GTA5 rumored to be transforming into an MMO

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You might be able to steal, swindle, and carjack to your heart's content in Grand Theft Auto Online, but you best not be crossing...
Strap in, buckos.

Rockstar releases Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer

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Earlier this week, Rockstar formally announced that it is working on Red Dead Redemption 2, due out fall of next year. "Developed by the...
Strap in, buckos.

Red Dead Redemption 2 announced for fall 2017 with ‘online multiplayer experience’

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Rockstar made it official this morning: Red Dead Redemption 2 is on the way this time next year. https://twitter.com/RockstarGames/status/788363842329903104 Why are we writing about it here? This...

The Game Archaeologist: Classic PlanetSide

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Unlike fantasy, the sci-fi genre has had a rocky relationship with MMORPGs. While studios have tried just as hard to make and promote them,...

Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for Amazon’s New World

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The announcement of a new sandbox MMORPG last week -- New World, by none other than Amazon Game Studios itself -- has had both...
Like this, but airborne.

Grand Theft Auto Online: Bikers lets you be the outlaw motorcyclist you always wanted to be

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Here in the real world, your options with a motorcycle are more or less limited to "riding it." You can't really whip into a...
Bah, it was just a bird.

Pokemon Go stream turns into ‘mugged in Central Park’ stream

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Twitch streamer Rickeybot wasn't bothering anyone; he was just streaming a session of Pokémon Go in Central Park at night. Long-time stream audiences know...

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