dota

Official Site: DotA (Wikipedia Entry)
Studio: PlayDota.com
Launch Date: 2003
Genre: Fantasy MOBA
Business Model: F2P
Platform: PC, Mac

SuperData’s July 2017 report sees PC rank reshuffle, Pokemon Go’s return, and GTAO’s console dominance

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SuperData's July 2017 revenue report isn't going to surprise anyone, I suspect, but it's worth a look. On the PC side, there are no new...
Bad taste?

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds whupped League of Legends on Twitch last week

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Playerunknown's Battlegrounds may have one of the worst video game names in history, but it set a new record on Twitch last week. Gameloco founder...
lol, valve

A Dota 2 pro was beaten by Elon Musk’s OpenAI bot during this year’s International

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Dota 2's The International 7 tournament is over, having concluded this weekend by crowning EU group Team Liquid -- which arrived to the finals...

The MOP Up: SMITE’s bad news bears (August 6, 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...
Just behind.

RuneScape is a massive hit on Twitch

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Time and again, we here at Massively OP have noted how RuneScape seems to be incredibly underestimated by the larger MMO community. For how...

Analyst Michael Pachter’s Overwatch League skepticism and other business tidbits

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Everyone's favorite gaming industry analyst Michael Pachter announced that his firm Wedbush is "skeptical that the Overwatch League will achieve much success," noting that...

Multiple countries will boycott the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games over e-sports concerns

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Back in April, we wrote about how the Olympic Council of Asia and Alisports of China was aiming to bring e-sports to the Asian...

The MOP Up: Warframe’s Chains of Harrow (July 2, 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...
Dota 2

SuperData May 2017: WoW recombinated, Dota 2 in the top 10, and Pokemon Go out

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Almost lost in the buzz today was the release of SuperData's rundown of the global digital games market for May. You'll notice immediately that...

Siltbreaker, the first chunk of Dota 2’s co-op PvE campaign, is now live

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It seems co-op multiplayer campaigns are the thing for MOBAs to do lately, if SMITE and Master X Master and Dota 2 are any...
lol, valve

The jury is out on whether or not DOTA 2 actually belongs to Valve

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It's not very interesting to see a big company take knockoff companies to court to argue that the knockoff companies are violating intellectual property....
Someone must have had fun with this at some point, right?

Leaderboard: Almost half of e-sports viewers don’t even play the games they’re spectating

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It may sound crazy, but a huge number of people who pour eyeball time and money into e-sports don't even play the games they're...
This is obviously someone else's fault.

DOTA 2 is getting a co-op story campaign… no, really

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The story of DOTA 2 has generally been considered to be a story of racist epithets uttered at strangers in a video game, or...
Dota 2

The Daily Grind: Where do you stand on Dota 2’s plan to require phone numbers for competitive play?

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Last week, Valve announced that in order to compete in ranked play, Dota 2 players will be required to register a unique phone number. "Players...

Wargaming says betting is ‘a natural part of sports’ and therefore online games

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Earlier this month, we covered SuperData's report on the state of gambling practices in digital games, in which one of the analysis firm's claims...

The MOP Up: ARK’s console editions get a hair-do (March 26, 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...
For chickens.

Perfect World sees mobile sales jump up in 2016

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When it comes to financial reports, there's always one word that every investor wants to see: growth. And for those that read Perfect World's...
Foretold.

2013 MMOARPG Path of Exile hit peak concurrency in March thanks to its latest patch

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Path of Exile just keeps getting bigger and bigger in terms of both players and team size, and it's actually providing the numbers to...
Bela Lugosi's dead.

Albion Online AMA on pay-to-win, free trials, and global servers

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Sandbox Interactive ran an AMA for its in-development indie MMO Albion Online on Reddit last night, covering everything from the game's business model to...

The MOP Up: MMOs make math fun (March 5, 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...

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