Official Site:Â Overwatch
Studio:Â Blizzard Entertainment
Launch Date:Â May 24, 2016
Genre: Team-Based OFPS
Business Model:Â B2P
Platform:Â PC, Xbox One, PS4
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The MOP Up: Pocket PUBG (December 3, 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...
Massively Overthinking: Taking risks in MMORPGs
Last weekend, Brendan wrote a great column on how to stay safe from gankers in EVE Online, noting that the newbies are commonly given...
Superdata’s October 2017 revenue report: Destiny 2’s and PUBG’s dominance
Destiny 2 may be fudging up left and right, but it still sold a truckton of copies.
That's according to Superdata, whose most recent revenue...
The MOP Up: League of Legends doesn’t want to grow up (November 26, 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 Soapbox: The long tail of game development isn’t an excuse for gouging
Don't be too mad at Star Wars: Battlefront II. It's a symptom of a problem, not the cause. I mean, be mad at people...
All the best MMO sales of Black Friday 2017
Step aside, turkey and fambly rage: It's time to buy stuff. Because we don't already unload our wallets the rest of the year on...
MassivelyOP’s 2017 gift guide for the Blizzard fanatic
With the new expansion, official vanilla servers, and all of the other news from BlizzCon this year, it's a great time to be a...
The Daily Grind: Do you want to see the return of experience-loss-on-death in MMORPGs?
Last week, I mentioned experience-loss-on-death in EverQuest that was particularly irritating when caused by so-called GM events. Yes, that was in the long long...
The MOP Up: Osiris New Dawn’s terrifying space ghosts (November 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...
Massively Overthinking: Are modern games too cheap?
This week's Massively Overthinking topic is a submission from reader and commenter camelotcrusade, who takes the industry's current fight over monetization in a different...
Overwatch kicks off a free play weekend across all platforms
Destiny 2 who? Overwatch is aiming to lure in as many of Blizzard's players as possible with another free weekend. The best part? It's...
Blizzard considers an Overwatch movie
One of the persistent complaints about Overwatch is that for all of the animated shorts, comics, and CGI trailers that Blizzard has released, the...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst of BlizzCon 2017
Last weekend, even Massively OP was obsessing over BlizzCon, and we thought it would be fun to poll the writers, including those who watched...
Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan on WoW Classic and the Overwatch toxicity ‘strike team’
Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan gave an interview on Reddit this week that provides an interesting perspective from an original World of Warcraft developer who defected to...
Overwatch brings Moira to the test server
Fans of certain Blizzard games are going to be waiting a while - possibly even a year - to start playing the cool stuff...
BlizzCon gamers react to, reflect on Overwatch toxicity
Toxicity in online gaming is easily one of the biggest stories of the year, particularly in Overwatch, where Blizzard has been focusing its anti-toxicity...
BlizzCon 2017: Check out Overwatch’s rejected heroes
A cat sporting a rocket-powered backpack. A hang gliding alligator. A flamethrower-sporting monkey. A decked-out hockey player. A bowler. A flaming head.
These were among...
BlizzCon 2017: World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth expansion live Q&A liveblog
Ah, here we go again. It's time for our final liveblog of BlizzCon 2017, and it's the World of Warcraft Q&A. And they're live...
BlizzCon 2017: World of Warcraft art panel liveblog
Remember how last year, we got an enormous amount of art discussion during a panel that really should have been about systems? Or was...
BlizzCon 2017: World of Warcraft gameplay and systems panel liveblog
The gameplay and systems panel is always very important to World of Warcraft. You found out long ago (well, a few hours ago) about...
