e-sports
World of Warcraft e-sports: The return of the Mythic Dungeon Invitational and Arena World Championship
World of Warcraft and e-sports: two great tastes that taste great together, right? That's Blizzard's position, anyway. On Friday it laid out its plans...
Hi-Rez Expo 2018: Erez Goren, 10 more games, 400 employees, and Global Agenda’s City of Heroes roots
It is true that the Hi-Rez Expo has wrapped up for 2018, and we'll need to wait another 12 months to attend the next...
Hi-Rez Expo 2018: Diving deeper into SMITE’s new map, new pantheons, fog, and more
Although the studio makes other games and each has a presence at Hi-Rez Expo 2018, there's no denying that SMITE was the star of the...
Gamers argue Overwatch League has a representation problem
No matter what you're seeing up on the screen in this inaugural season of the Overwatch League, chances are really good that the people...
Overwatch’s Mercy is shown none by Blizzard, plus news on Overwatch League
Mercy just can't catch a break.
The Overwatch healer is due for another round of brutal nerfs, the latest in a long, long line of...
Flameseeker Chronicles: 2018 Guild Wars 2 predictions
I adore looking back on last year's predictions about what's to come in Guild Wars 2 in the next twelve months: Even when my predictions...
ASUS throws its weight behind League of Legends in China
Battle royale? Team shooters? League of Legends scoffs at these pretenders to the online throne, sitting on top of an e-sports empire that spans...
The best Massively OP MMO reader polls of 2017
Polls are a quantitative sort of magic that we don't often get from our other articles - at least when they aren't being brigaded...
Perfect Ten: 20 multiplayer games to watch in 2018
A couple of weeks ago I covered 20(ish) MMORPGs that we are looking forward to seeing develop, test, and launch in 2018. But as...
The MOP Up: Honoring RIFT’s Wintercharm (December 24, 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...
Christmas happenings in DCUO, Overwatch, Worlds Adrift, and Neverwinter
Faster than the snow can come down and the heating bills go up are all of the holiday events that are streaming into, well,...
Hearthstone alters its e-sports plan for 2018 while continuing to get more expensive
People who enjoy playing or watching competitive Hearthstone will probably be excited about the recently announced changes to the game's competitive play circuit. The...
SuperData says the e-sports industry grew to $1.5B this year alone
SuperData has a new report out this week that suggests e-sports haters will not be getting what they want for Christmas.
"The esports market has...
Ask Mo: Counting the hits and misses of our 2017 predictions
As we do every year, today we’re going to peer back into the depths of last year's staff predictions for the genre and the games...
Overwatch snags two Game Awards while Destiny 2 is honored by six nominations
Did you catch last night's Game Awards from LA? If not, you probably didn't miss anything super-groundbreaking, although Overwatch did quite well for itself...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2017
Think of all the wacky things devs have said in public in front of gamers and journalists this year.
Now imagine what gets said behind...
Overwatch League begins as Philadelphia Fusion pulls out
It's a less-than-ideal way for Blizzard's long-awaited esports league to begin.
The Overwatch League preseason began this week, although not with all of the expected...
Riot’s new promo video argues e-sports are indeed sports
No one will be surprised by Riot Games' latest e-sports video. Riot Games really likes e-sports. Indeed, Riot Games believes e-sports are real sports.
"Not...
Belgium seeks to ban lockboxes as gambling, plus Hawaii and France weigh in
Capping off the Great Star Wars Battlefront II Fiasco of November, Belgium's Gambling Commission and the Dutch Gaming Authority both began investigating lootboxes/lockboxes to determine whether...
H1Z1’s latest patch adds a new insta-respawn map and new dailies
Daybreak has big plans for H1Z1 -- that's the game formerly known as H1Z1: King of the Kill, you'll recall, as it was rebranded...
