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Activision-Blizzard Q4 2016: Record quarter for Blizzard thanks to World of Warcraft and Overwatch

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Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financial reports have gotten boring since the companies decided to stop reporting World of Warcraft subscribers in 2015, am I right? But in...

SMITE kicks off season 4 with a huge patch

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Such fun. Big gods. Power number high! Wow SMITE. Bringing together memes of yesteryear, deities of time immemorial, and e-sports of today is SMITE, which...

Here’s what the whole Counter-Strike gambling thing is about

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If you are outside of the Counter-Strike Global Offensive community, you might not know what a big deal the whole "skin gambling" thing is...

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...

Firefall: The dead game that won’t die

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2016 was not Firefall's year. I'm not sure which year was its year, honestly, what with the e-sports bus fiasco and suspension of PvP and former CEO Mark...
Not Overwatch! Please don't sue!

Hi-Rez Expo 2017: Paladins announces upcoming Season 1 following the Paladins Invitational

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The first Paladins e-sports event will kick off today at 12:00 p.m. EST, with the first Paladins Invitational pitting players against one another in...

SMITE and Paladins star at Atlanta’s Hi-Rez Expo convention this week

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Hi-Rez Expo (which I fully plan to keep thinking of as SMITECON in my head) officially kicks off tomorrow morning at the Cobb Energy...

Flameseeker Chronicles: 2017 predictions for Guild Wars 2

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The year is most definitely drawing to a close: I've devoured a mountain of turkey and stuffing sandwiches, binge-watched all of my favourite holiday...

Digital game sales took off in 2016

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Don't look now, but we're putting the cap on "the biggest year in digital games and playable media ever," according to SuperData Research. Thanks to...

Massively Overthinking: Our 2017 MMORPG predictions

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With 2016 drawing to a close and 2017 rushing up to meet us, the Massively OP team has regrouped for another round of bold and...

Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Biggest MMORPG Disappointment of 2016

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Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for the Biggest MMORPG Disappointment of 2016, which was awarded in 2015 to World of Warcraft's...

Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: The Pseudo-MMO of the Year

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Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Best Pseudo-MMO of 2016, which was awarded to ARK: Survival Evolved last year. As you might surmise,...

Pro e-sports team opens retail shop in London

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So file this one under "that happened": A pro-gaming team has opened a pop-up e-sports retail store in London. The team is Fnatic, and really...
You say that like it's a bad thing.

Is Heroes of the Storm a failure from the e-sports side?

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Does it seem like Heroes of the Storm is still struggling to find its niche? On the one hand, that question is ridiculous at...

The Daily Grind: Are you worried for EVE Online’s safety if CCP is bought out?

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Following the Bloomberg-floated rumor last Friday that CCP Games might be up for sale, we've had nothing but silence from CCP on the topic, so bloggers...

The MOP Up: The worst Overwatch players ever (December 11, 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...

Ask Mo: Scoring last year’s Massively OP MMORPG predictions

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As we do every year, today we're going to squint back a year, into the depths of a Massively Overthinking from the tail end...
It's big, yeah yeah yeah, it's not small, etc.

The Daily Grind: Which game made the biggest contribution to killing MMORPGs in 2016?

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MOP commenter deekay_zero proposed this week's Daily Grind in a roundabout way, and fair warning: It's a bit of a downer. He semi-jokingly suggested that...
We're the good guys this week, right? No? Well, we're going anyway.

League of Legends championship paid out $6.7M in prizes

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What would you do if you won $6.7 million dollars from playing video games? Other than make your parents and teachers weep at all...

The MOP Up: Hearthstone cruises down some Mean Streets (December 4, 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...

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