e-sports
Digital game sales took off in 2016
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
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
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
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
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...
Is Heroes of the Storm a failure from the e-sports side?
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?
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)
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
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...
The Daily Grind: Which game made the biggest contribution to killing MMORPGs in 2016?
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...
League of Legends championship paid out $6.7M in prizes
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)
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...
The Daily Grind: Will players always trump NPCs as MMO PvP adversaries?
Prolific MOP commenter Sally Bowls posted a note last week that stood out to me as something we should all be seriously considering. Most...
The Daily Grind: Is Twitch chat just MMO general chat writ large?
Last week, an Indiana University Bloomington team released its analysis of over a billion comments made on Twitch over a two-month period in 2014...
Massively OP’s 2016 gift guide for the Blizzard fanatic
The holidays are almost here! Seriously, they're rushing forward at a rate of two seconds per second, or something. Which means that it's time...
SMITE adds Fafnir-flavored PvE holiday challenge
If SMITE were in charge of the reindeer games, they'd probably look something like the new PvE arena, Fafnir's Winter Wonderland. There, players will pit...
Leaderboard: How would you rate BlizzCon 2016?
During this past week's podcast, Justin, Eliot, and I debated the overall tenor of BlizzCon 2016 -- and found it more or less lacking....
Atlas Reactor enters the e-sports scene
Did you honestly think that strategy MOBA Atlas Reactor was going to sit on the sidelines of the whole e-sports scene and not dive...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 90: BlizzConcerns
Justin, Bree, and Eliot discuss BlizzCon 2016, WoW's new cadence, Diablo III's content plans, the Nostalrius legacy server standoff, Funcom's financials, and Revelation Online.
Guild Wars 2 preps fourth Tournament of Legends this weekend
In case you're bored by the multiple cameras BlizzCon is aiming at e-sports this weekend, maybe Guild Wars 2's e-sports during the same timeframe...
