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Black Desert is due for a ‘full-scale graphic remastering later this year’
At GDC last week, Black Desert took center stage as the subject of a demo from Silicon Studio showing off YEBIS, its post-processing software....
Overwatch announces new hero Orisa
At an art panel at GDC this morning, Blizzard confirmed that Overwatch's next hero is Orisa, a OR15 protector robot rebuilt and reinvented by...
Lineage 2: Revolution is officially coming to the west
Netmarble's mobile spin-off of the Lineage series will be officially coming to the west, the studio revealed at GDC this week.
Lineage II: Revolution launched...
Pokemon Go: 650M downloads, update cadence, and Ingress 2.0
There's lots going on with Pokemon Go right now, thanks in part to the official Pokemon Day that kicked off the week. Here's a...
Take a peek at the first 15 mods being funded through ARK: Survival Evolved’s new creator program
Earlier this week, Studio Wildcard teased its new paid modding program for ARK: Survival Evolved, and now it's released more details as part of...
AdventureQuest 3D opens Ashfall, nears 1M registered players
Vowing to get the new update out today "no matter what," AdventureQuest 3D's devs pushed its Ashfall patch live. This marks the game's "first...
Ride out into the frontier in Rebel Horizons’ GDC trailer
For those that felt titillated and intrigued by the original announcement of Rebel Horizons a year ago (if you can remember back that long),...
Conan Exiles is bringing official servers back online, releases dev kit for modders
Conan Exile's struggle to stay on top of the high demand for the survival sandbox and its troubles with shards continues, as Funcom announced...
The Soapbox: The sorry state of ARK Survival Evolved
When ARK: Survival Evolved came on the scene in June 2015, it was met with enthusiasm (dinosaurs!) as well as some skepticism (Early Access)....
Blizzard’s Mike Morhaime ‘troubled’ by latest US immigration policies
On Monday, we covered some of the MMORPG companies speaking out against new immigration policy that opponents of the current US administration have dubbed...
MMORPG developers, GDC organizers speak out against US ‘Muslim ban’
You might want to keep politics out of gaming, but politics has a way of forcing itself in the door no matter what.
Multiple MMO developers and...
Pantheon demos surprise dungeon on tonight’s stream
Brad McQuaid's Visionary Realms is planning to demo its pragmatic throwback MMORPG Pantheon tonight live on stream.
"After much glee and celebration of first...
Analyst argues game devs are abandoning free-to-play in some genres
Red Fox Insights analyst Jake Parmley has another piece on Gamasutra this week, this one arguing that video game developers are "backing away from...
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....
The MOP Up: Paragon recruits Sevarog (April 3, 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...
GDC 2016: Diablo’s UI was designed to pass the ‘mom test’
David Brevik, one of the original co-founders of Blizzard North and probably best known to MMO players for his long tenure at the helm...
Nexon’s LawBreakers will be a Steam exclusive, won’t be free-to-play
CliffyB's Nexon-backed shooter LawBreakers isn't breaking the law, but it might be breaking hearts over those medial capitals, am I right? At GDC this week,...
Guild Wars 2 team streams ‘Building Online Spaces for a Massive Community’ panel from SXSW
If you're not at GDC or SXSW this week, then you might be feeling a bit left out of the video game industry hoopla,...
ARK poop as planned suicide, and new dinos will add to the pile
If you learn nothing else today, you'll have this: ARK: Survival Evolved's poop was designed as a suicide measure. Seriously. According to Studio Wildcard...
GDC 2016: PlayStation VR launches in October for $399
Sony's PlayStation VR is launching in October with a $399 pricetag, significantly less than the tech world assumed and much less than the Vive...