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Overwatch celebrates first birthday with free-play weekend and GOTY edition
Overwatch is turning one year this month, so bust out your hipster camera and baby confections for a cake smash! Just kidding. Actually Blizzard...
Overwatch’s D.Va lands in Heroes of the Storm
D.Va fans now have a choice of two games to get their cute girl-in-a-mech fix. The Overwatch fan favorite made her way over to...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 117: Starfall no more
On this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin is joined by MJ to chit-chat about The Secret World (Legends), ESO Morrowind, TERA, RIFT, Wild West Online, Guild Wars 2, ARK, Conan Exiles, EverQuest II, Warframe, and LOTRO, with mailbag questions on returning to MMOs, F2P MMO recommendations, and our old Marvel Heroes guild.
LawBreakers begins a second round of closed beta this week
Get your breakin'-the-law gifs ready: Nexon’s CliffyB-designed online shooter LawBreakers enters its second round of closed beta this week. Last year, Boss Key announced it was...
Overwatch launches several pricey art books this October
It's apparently not official yet as Blizzard hasn't sent out a press blurby, but Overwatch is getting a pair of massive art books this...
The MOP Up: Life is Feudal’s building sim (May 14, 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...
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...
Overwatch League allegedly has a $20 million price tag to enter
Remember how Blizzard started to focus MLG in on Overwatch as an e-sports venue at the same time well-known teams started fleeing the scene?...
Massively Overthinking: Is the MMO genre facing an identity crisis?
MMORPG blogger and MOP commenter Isarii (@ethanmacfie) recently published an excellent video positing that the MMO industry is facing a "massive identity crisis."
"The MMO...
Overwatch players rack up 145.5M Uprising matches
Now that Overwatch has wrapped up its two-month Uprising campaign, how did it fare? Quite well, as probably anyone could have told you. The...
Blizzard focuses MLG on Overwatch as e-sports teams flee the game
Remember back when Blizzard bought Major League Gaming? This week, the studio announced it's putting MLG to use as the conduit for its Overwatch...
Heroes of the Storm starts testing Overwatch’s D.Va
At this point, Heroes of the Storm really should stop pretending and just rename itself Heroes of Overwatch.
Blizzard's underperforming MOBA is certainly capitalizing hard on...
The MOP Up: SMITE’s console mea culpa (May 7, 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...
Warframe triggers Operation: Ambulas Reborn
The sinister Corpus is on the verge of rolling out its newest weapon, the deadly Ambulas mechs, and players are going to need to...
Overwatch: Hero leaks, lockbox probabilities, and Korean political humor
As Asian countries are cracking down on online games with lockbox gambling, gaming companies are complying with transparency. To wit: Blizzard's Chinese Overwatch website...
Activision-Blizzard Q1 2017: Blizzard’s online games drove Activision-Blizzard profits last quarter
Activision-Blizzard can't claim "biggest quarter ever" for the quarter ending March 2017, but it continues to rake in huge sums of money, enough to at...
Fan-made Overwatch short explores Mercy’s backstory
If you've played a single Overwatch game with Mercy as your support hero, you've heard her rallying shout at least once - "Heroes never...
PSA: The Division is free to try this weekend on PC
The Division (or what we called "The Divs" when I was a kid roaming the suburban streets of Ohio, looking for my next hit of...
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...
Overwatch players get one extra day of Uprising
While Overwatch's most recent event, Uprising, was scheduled to conclude yesterday, it got a brief, second lease on life with a one-day extension. So...
