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Caravan Stories to bring cross-platform Pokémon-style action to Japan
While Japan is not exactly the hotbed of MMORPG development, there are a few studios working to put the country on the map for...
Improbable’s plan for rescuing the MMO genre from ‘nuclear winter’ involves a crapton of money
Improbable keeps popping up in news stories relating to MMOs lately -- that's thanks to SpatialOS, what the company is calling a "distributed computing...
Emil Chronicle Online closes its last server
It's the end of the line for one long-running Japanese MMORPG.
Emil Chronicle Online, also abbreviated ECO (no relation), is closing down its very last...
The Game Archaeologist: When Hellgate London got Flagshipped
It seems that it really wasn't too long ago that I was filling in the time between night classes by boning up on video...
NetEase has a smashing good first quarter 2017 thanks to mobile sales and Hearthstone
Chinese operator, developer, and publisher NetEase posted its Q1 2017 financial report this week, and the news is quite good for the company. NetEase...
Square-Enix financials show steady incoming but slow sales on online gaming
If you're worried about the overall health of Square-Enix, a glance at the company's most recent financials should assuage any concerns, since the past...
Final Fantasy XI preps a new event for its 15th anniversary
It's been 15 years now since Final Fantasy XI first launched in Japan, and the game is still receiving updates to this day. (Seriously,...
Perfect Ten: Exploring MMORPGs from the far corners of the world
Have you ever noticed that while there's an entire world out there, most all of the MMORPGs we discuss and play tend to either...
Massively Overthinking: Are MMORPG players a minority in their own genre?
Deep in the comments of the MMOs-vs.-survival-sandboxes thread from last week, reader miol_ produced a beautiful comment about how MMO players have become a...
Enter to win a Neverwinter unicorn mount on Xbox One and PS4 from PWE and MOP
To celebrate last week's arrival of the Cloaked Ascendancy expansion for Neverwinter on console, PWE has granted Massively OP 50 unicorn mount keys to give away to our readers-- 25 apiece for PlayStation...
The MOP Up: Overwatch gives smurfing a pass (April 16, 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...
Japan and the US led mobile app sales in 2016
We're number one! No, actually, we're number two. And it's in mobile sales. Dammit.
That's according to AppAnnie, which on Friday released its 2016 rankings...
Massively Overthinking: That moment when your MMO looks like a ‘fire sale at an exotic pet store’
Massively OP Podcast listener John recently sent us a really great question that saw Justin and me sharply divided in terms of our responses,...
The MOP Up: Hearthstone gets ready to banish dozens of cards (February 19, 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...
Nexon Q4 2016 financials down slightly QoQ and YoY, 2017 LawBreakers launch planned
Nexon released its Q4 2016 and full-year 2016 financial results today, painting a mixed picture for the quarter and year: Revenues are down slightly...
Ten life lessons I learned from the Asheron’s Call series
As Asheron's Call 1 & 2 are going offline shortly, I thought I might give it a final send-off with a list of things I...
Final Fantasy XIV inspires a new live-action Japanese show
There are lots of stories in Final Fantasy XIV, and one such story is being adapted for a new live-action series in Japan. But...
The MOP Up: No Man’s Sky gets shielded (January 22, 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...
Examining the potential for exercise and exploration in Pokemon GO
Just in time for your New Year's resolution, we reported on how Pokemon Go was featured in a peer-reviewed study on getting people to move more. But...
Closers Online shuts down in Japan, moves over to Taiwan
As of today, Closers Online is, um, closed in Japan. SEGA has shut down the game's servers and is handing all operations of the...
