e-sports
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...
Activision-Blizzard Q4 2016: Record quarter for Blizzard thanks to World of Warcraft and Overwatch
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
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
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)
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
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...
Hi-Rez Expo 2017: Paladins announces upcoming Season 1 following the Paladins Invitational
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
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
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
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...
