news
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has had at least a million concurrent players for a year
For all the jokes about another game eating its chicken dinner, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is still doing quite well for itself on Steam. The title...
Former Cryptic employee reveals story of how City of Heroes assets and source code accidentally ended up on players’ computers
Hey, you guys remember that time that City of Heroes accidentally pushed all of the game's assets and source code into a patch, then...
League of Legends announces Odyssey PvE event
Riot is bringing PvE back to League of Legends with a new event, Odyssey, which will see players boarding Jinx's spaceship, the Morning Star,...
Seed discusses the natural biases of worldbuilding and interaction
Here's a statement that should be rather uncontroversial but might be otherwise: You do not exist in a vacuum. The experiences that have shaped...
Chronicles of Elyria update shows off new art assets, progresses Searing Plague world event
Soulbound Studios is getting crafty in the latest update for its in-development MMO Chronicles of Elyria, as it displays some of the newly created...
Lord of the Rings Online’s Harnkegger Games event list announced, music contest registration open
Lord of the Rings Online's yearly Harnkegger Games are once again upon us, and the player organizers have released the list of this year's...
Roblox secures another $150 million in funding
Consider this your regularly scheduled reminder that Roblox makes money and also serves as an attractive investment for making more money. Yes, the company...
The MOP Up: Champions Online’s month-long anniversary bash (September 9, 2018)
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...
Superdata has been bought by Nielsen
You all remember SuperData, right? We cover a lot of their reports about industry performance and all of that fun stuff, because we obviously...
Camelot Unchained discusses development of destructible deathmatch castle, new art assets
Development on Camelot Unchained seems to be coming along nicely, and the folks at City State Entertainment have posted a new weekly update detailing...
New World interview covers sandbox design, hosting tech, combat, death, and more
New World, Amazon's in-development MMO, has been something of a mystery until the last few weeks, but information is now coming out faster and...
Overwatch League signs on six more teams for its 2019 season
If Blizzard were to stop adding new things to Overwatch, it would die, like some sort of new content shark. That's already a known...
SoulWorker update adds new dungeons, quests, and class advancement
Gameforge, in conjunction with developer Lion Games, has released a major new update for its post-apocalyptic anime-action MMO SoulWorker, adding a wealth of new...
Riders of Icarus previews its upcoming Shadows of Turimnan update
Riders of Icarus took to Twitter this week to announce that its next major content update Shadow of Turimnan will be coming soon, bringing...
Dual Universe AMA tackles questions about alpha testing, LUA scripting, combat, and more
Novaquark, developer of upcoming voxel-based spacefaring MMO Dual Universe, has posted an AMA of all the questions asked by fans during Gamescom 2018. The...
Astroneer launches the crafting update with all the crafting you could ask for
You have to add a lot of crafting to call a patch "the crafting update," but Astroneer is up to that challenge. The update...
Revelation Online details dungeon difficulty revamp in upcoming New Sulan update
Revelation Online's upcoming New Sulan update is bringing some big changes to the game's dungeon system, which will have its difficulty modes streamlined. With...
Black Desert and The Division are both free to play this weekend on Steam
There was a time when it was rare to be able to try out an MMO without buying it, but these days the majority...
ArcheAge prepares for a new round of ‘server evolutions’
What's this? ArcheAge's servers are evolving! But not into a bird, or a beetle, or some sort of bird-beetle with like fourteen stingers like...
Albion Online patch brings minor changes and fixes
Multiplatform fantasy sandbox MMO Albion Online has received a small update today, bringing a few changes and fixes to the game. The changes are...