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Conan Exiles is bringing official servers back online, releases dev kit for modders

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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

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When ARK: Survival Evolved came on the scene in June 2015, it was met with enthusiasm (dinosaurs!) as well as some skepticism (Early Access)....
Oh my.

Blizzard’s Mike Morhaime ‘troubled’ by latest US immigration policies

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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’

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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...
Do you... want to hang out, man?

Pantheon demos surprise dungeon on tonight’s stream

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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...
The Olympic committee looks really different now.

Analyst argues game devs are abandoning free-to-play in some genres

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Red Fox Insights analyst Jake Parmley has another piece on Gamasutra this week, this one arguing that video game developers are "backing away from...
Yes, this assuages my nervousness, you bet.

Daybreak exec on early access, e-sports, VR, EverQuest Next, and the future of EverQuest

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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)

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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...
hooray sorta

GDC 2016: Diablo’s UI was designed to pass the ‘mom test’

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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...
See, this is why no one likes you. It's because of this.

Nexon’s LawBreakers will be a Steam exclusive, won’t be free-to-play

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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,...
This is what happens when you give guns to plants.

Guild Wars 2 team streams ‘Building Online Spaces for a Massive Community’ panel from SXSW

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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

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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

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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...

Paradox and Obsidian are plotting something big at GDC

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Update: The new game is called Tyranny, and it's not VtM-themed -- full update and PR/trailer at the end of the post. Paradox Interactive is...

Vendetta Online demos its VR capabilities at GDC

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Vendetta Online was the very first MMORPG with support for the Oculus Rift way back in 2013, and you can see those VR capabilities...

Games industry sees strong promise in e-sports and virtual reality

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If you're tired of hearing how hot e-sports is and how the industry is gunning for it as the future of gaming... perhaps you...

The MOP Up: A look behind A Realm Reborn (December 27, 2015)

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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...

Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s Jedi Knight and Sith Warrior changes aren’t bad

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It's been two weeks since I visited Star Wars: The Old Republic in this column, and it's clear that two weeks is far too long...
And in the distance, the call of payment.

DayZ associate producer talks cheaters and how to stop them

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DayZ associate producer Eugen Harton spoke to a GDC Europe crowd earlier today about how Bohemia Interactive handles cheaters in its open-world zombiepocalypse survival...

The Daily Grind: Is the age of mobile over before mobile MMOs even got started?

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In analyzing survey responses returned from more than 250 developers this year, the organizers of GDC Europe did everything but declare mobile dead. "PC...

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