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Overwatch League gets ESPN and Disney XD television contract
Count this as a huge victory for Blizzard's attempt to legitimize and popularize its fledgling Overwatch League.
The studio announced this week that it has...
Ashes of Creation claims it’s ‘now among the largest MMOs in production’
Ashes of Creation claims it's "now among the largest MMOs in production" thanks to the addition of a large crew of new hires and...
Trion just bought up Gazillion’s assets to beef up its MMO publishing arm
Did you see this one coming? VentureBeat has a piece out this morning interviewing Trion Worlds CEO Scott Hartsman, who's apparently just revealed that...
One Shots: Rave on Risa
I love how in the Star Trek universe, the universal consensus on what makes for an ideal vacation spot is a planet that looks...
Solo has a couple blink-and-you’ll-miss-it references to Star Wars Galaxies
One of the best aspects of all of the new Disney Star Wars films is their references to places, events, and characters outside of...
Toontown Rewritten sponsors convention for emulator fans
Perhaps one of the most amazing MMORPG emulator projects is one that has flown under the radar of the larger community. Following the shutdown...
Another writer allegedly leaves BioWare – what on earth is going on with Anthem?
Surfacing at the tail end of last week was the news that multiple former BioWare devs who'd all contributed heavily to Star Wars The...
Former SWTOR creative director and key writers form up under new studio FogBank
We don't know exactly what titles they're working on, but three former Star Wars: The Old Republic veterans have joined forces under a studio...
The ESA is fighting proposed DMCA exemptions that would preserve sunsetted MMORPGs because of course it is
Over the last couple of years, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been petitioning for changes to the DMCA to help preserve old video games...
Whatever happened to Pirates of the Burning Sea, Pirates of the Caribbean Online, and Puzzle Pirates?
Ever pause during your day and find yourself wondering, “Whatever happened to that game?” With hundreds upon hundreds of online titles these days, it’s surprisingly easy...
Rumor: Disney eyes Ubisoft and Activision to take over Star Wars video game IP
Raise your hand if you're a little tired of Electronic Arts' handling of the Star Wars video game franchise since its acquisition in 2013....
MMO devs discuss the painful process of shutting down online games
Have you ever thought about what it is like for developers and community managers who handle online games that are being shut down? It's...
Video game preservationists attempt to raise $450K to rez Marvel Heroes [Updated]
(We've updated below with MMOBomb's detailed investigation into this Indiegogo - short story, don't go handing over your dough.)
With Marvel Heroes dead and gone,...
Jukebox Heroes: World of Warcraft’s best music, part 1
A week ago, I started to engage in an interesting thought experiment. I started jotting down what I thought were the best World of...
Trademarks, copyrights, and patents: What they mean for you and for video games
Has the pace of news moved so quickly that we've already forgotten about Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene's statement that video games lack any IP copyright...
Creditors lay claim to nearly $700,000 in Gazillion assets in bankruptcy case
We named the sad death of Marvel Heroes the greatest MMO disappointment of 2017, and it appears it's not even over yet. Redditors noticed that on...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO hopes and wishes for 2018
One of the frustrating bits about our end-of-the-year content rollouts is that sometimes predictions and story roundups can come across as negative. It’s way too easy...
Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2017
It's true that we lost a lot of MMOs in 2016 -- bigger and more important ones than in 2014 and 2015. 2017, however, has...
Exclusive: Ship of Heroes’ Casey McGeever on the superhero MMORPG genre
Ship of Heroes is super-jumping right into 2018 with two documents of note. The first is a retrospective of what the Heroic Games team...
The ultimate guide to The Game Archaeologist’s MMO archives
When we moved over here to Massively Overpowered, some of us transplanted our long-running columns to the new space. I perhaps felt most devastated...
