e-sports
The MOP Up: Project Gorgon’s pig dance party (August 7, 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...
Mark Kern to Ember followers: ‘I feel a profound sense of responsibility for what happened to Firefall’
In the wake of the apparent complete emptying of the Red 5 Studios offices this week, former Firefall founder Mark Kern is forging ahead...
The MOP Up: Planet of Heroes comes into orbit (July 24, 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...
ARK championships rage on this weekend
This is the weekend that Americans will get out their grills, shoot off some fireworks, and celebrate their independence from the tyranny of dinosaurs....
NBA champion Rick Fox partners with Daybreak’s H1Z1 for e-sport initiative
Multitime NBA champion Rick Fox has his sights set on H1Z1 as the next big e-sports field, so much so that he has partnered up...
The Civilized Gentlemen take home Guild Wars 2’s Pro League Season 2’s top prize
This past weekend, ArenaNet crowded the champion of the ESL Guild Wars 2 Pro League Season 2 Finals the single-elimination tourney: Europe's The Civilized Gentlemen,...
Valve sued for enabling e-sports gambling with skins
According to report at Polygon this week, Valve is being sued by a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player for allegedly knowingly allowing and sponsoring illegal...
Guild Wars 2’s World Championship e-sports tourney will feature $200K prize pool
ArenaNet has just announced details of the Guild Wars 2 World Championship in partnership with ESL.
"On Saturday, September 17, at the ESL Studios in...
SMITE’s 2016 World Championships features another million-dollar prize pool
Hi-Rez Studios told press and fans today that it's taking over Cobb Energy Center in Atlanta, Georgia, for its next big event.
Hi-Rez Expo will...
Someone is already level 100 in Overwatch
Overwatch player FenderOverwatch has successfully reached the level 100 cap on Tuesday, just a week since its formal launch. You can all give up now.
The...
Mark Kern says he’d buy Firefall back if it sunsets
Mark Kern, most recently recalled to MMORPG audiences for volunteering himself as a spokesperson in the Nostalrius World of Warcraft vanilla server ordeal, told...
Blizzard and Twitch address harassment defiling game event streams
In case you had forgotten since yesterday's news that RuneScape had to ban players for running around in-game wearing KKK costumes and shrieking racial...
The MOP Up: Blizzard’s mobile prospects (May 15, 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...
SMITE’s Spring Fling charity stream raises money to help sick e-sports caster
SMITE developer Hi-Rez Studios embarks on its second Annual Spring Fling charity livestream today, and this year's event is dedicated to fundraising for a...
Chaos Theory: The Secret World survival game
I've been thinking. (A dangerous pastime, I know!) And I think I have come up with a solution to a number of the things...
Daybreak exec on early access, e-sports, VR, EverQuest Next, and the future of EverQuest
GamesIndustry.biz has published a lengthy interview with Daybreak chief publishing officer Laura Naviaux Sturr on the evolution of the MMORPG studio over the last year....
EVE Fanfest 2016: Project Nova will include territorial warfare, link with EVE
At this week's EVE Fanfest 2016, CCP Games revealed its new PC first person shooter Project Nova that has risen from the ashes of console FPS DUST...
RuneScape argues why MMO companies should offer classic servers
There's been this thing in the news over the past two weeks about a certain (illegal) fan-run vanilla World of Warcraft server and its...
The Daily Grind: Should e-sports players unionize?
MCV reported this week that World of Tanks studio Wargaming plans to help organize a union for pro e-sports players. Wargaming European e-sports boss...
Arizona State University team wins Heroes of the Storm’s Heroes of the Dorm
Four college teams faced off at the Heroes of the Dorm championship, and now one team has emerged as the winner. Heroes of the...
