e-sports
The 2022 Asian Games will include e-sports events
Go ahead and keep mocking e-sports, but they are only getting bigger and more respectable as they keep creating tremendous piles of money. In...
H1Z1: King of the Kill preps pre-season 4 and televised e-sports debut
H1Z1: King of the Kill, that zombie sandbox you love to hate but apparently just can't quit, is preparing pre-season 4. The main thing...
SuperData CEO discusses the money problem of e-sports
Whether you're a big fan of the e-sports scene or you would be quite happy never hearing about it ever again, you are no...
Perfect Ten: Conversations with anthropomorphic concepts of MMO studios
Every so often, a man needs to have a conversation with some anthropomorphized concepts. I do that every few years. In the past, I've...
Heroes of the Storm crowns a dorm champ, catalyzes a wedding
Congrats are due this week to the University of Texas at Arlington, whose Heroes of the Storm e-sports team pretty much walked away handily...
Wargaming says betting is ‘a natural part of sports’ and therefore online games
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...
EVE Fanfest 2017: Hands-on with competitive VR sports game Sparc
At the end of February, CCP Games announced a new game that has nothing to do with EVE Online or even the EVE IP. Named Sparc,...
SMITE gets a new racing mode, Paladins maps out e-sports tourney
Hi-Rez's MOBAs are both seeing fresh updates this week.
In SMITE land, the 4.6 patch updates Hades and Ravana, adds a bunch of new skins,...
ESL Gaming is shutting down Guild Wars 2’s e-sports section
ESL Gaming announced this afternoon that following two last e-sports cups next week, its Guild Wars 2 division will close.
"It's the end of an...
Blizzard has opened an e-sports stadium in Taiwan
Blizzard already has an unlicensed amusement park -- so why not a licensed stadium?
That's indeed exactly what the company has built in Taiwan. The...
SuperData examines gambling practices across the online gaming industry
Gambling in video games has been a huge topic for devoted MMORPG players over the last year or so, as core MMOs like Guild...
The MOP Up: Guns of Icarus has relaunched as Guns of Icarus Alliance (April 2, 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...
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...
UK Gambling Commission argues game studios should avoid complicity with unlicensed gambling operations
The UK doesn't take kindly to illegal gambling, as anyone who followed the FIFA YouTuber gambling case in the region over the last year....
BlizzCon 2017 to be held on November 3-4
There are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and another BlizzCon every year even if Blizzard has absolutely nothing new to announce. Then again,...
The MOP Up: Wakfu hikes up a mountain (March 12, 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...
World of Warcraft expands its arena world championship series
World of Warcraft is cranking back up its Arena World Championship series for another run -- and this year it looks to be bigger...
Blizzard is considering WoW competitive raiding e-sports again
If you were annoyed by the apparent subsumption of World of Warcraft art and lore panels by other games' e-sports at last year's BlizzCon,...
Smilegate pushes Crossfire in the west with a new European office
What the heck is Crossfire? It's a game that makes quite a bit of money, according to SuperData; we're talking in the "massive numbers...
Valve is working on three VR titles, feeling effects of travel ban
Valve's Gabe Newell and Erik Johnson have confirmed that the company is working on a trio of VR-centric games, not cheapie experiments but full-scale...