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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...
Paradox and Obsidian are plotting something big at GDC
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
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
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)
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
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...
DayZ associate producer talks cheaters and how to stop them
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?
In analyzing survey responses returned from more than 250 developers this year, the organizers of GDC Europe did everything but declare mobile dead. "PC...
Project Morpheus signals Sony’s entrance into the VR arms race
The Oculus Rift won't be the only gaming headset that people will be talking about in the near future. Sony announced this week that...
Elite: Dangerous is coming to the Xbox One in 2015
Elite: Dangerous is coming to the Xbox One, according to a new teaser that was released at GDC this week. There's no firm date...
Former SWTOR bigwig dislikes the term ‘whale’
The latest salvo in the ongoing free-to-play culture war comes courtesy of former Star Wars: The Old Republic lead systems designer Damion Schubert. In...
How Daybreak strives to avoid social media pitfalls
Tweeting or posting the wrong thing in the wrong tone can have serious consequences for a game studio, which is something that Daybreak Senior...
