See: Pokemon Go
pokemon
The MOP Up: PlayerUnknown’s Battleground and the fog of war (September 17, 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...
Scientists say Pokemon Go helps relieve stress in Japanese workers
A new Japanese study in the acclaimed science journal Nature suggests that Pokemon Go players experienced a drop in "psychological distress" because of the game. The paper gives...
Massively Overthinking: What keeps you from playing mobile MMOs?
Earlier this week, we wrote about Black Desert developer Pearl Abyss' IPO and its grand plans for the future - among them, four additional...
Maguss is a mash-up of Pokémon Go and Harry Potter
It might be the closest you will ever get to living out your Harry Potter fantasies without heading down to Universal Studios in Orlando....
The MOP Up: Skyforge gets a dark rush with the Revenant (September 10, 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 MOP Up: Warframe battles cancer (September 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...
Niantic is releasing new Pokemon Go raids despite major bugs
Hot on the heels of its legendary bird raids, Pokemon Go will have Generation 2's legendary dogs as the game's newest raids starting August 31st. As the...
The Walking Dead IP is getting a new augmented reality game, like Pokemon Go but maybe better
Next Games, the company behind The Walking Dead: No Man's Land, recently announced an AR game based on the Walking Dead IP.
What's interesting is that unlike Pokemon Go,...
Massively Overthinking: Female characters and gender-locked classes in MMOs
One of the reasons I gravitated to and stick by the MMORPG genre in spite of its many ups and downs (oh, so many...
SuperData’s July 2017 report sees PC rank reshuffle, Pokemon Go’s return, and GTAO’s console dominance
SuperData's July 2017 revenue report isn't going to surprise anyone, I suspect, but it's worth a look. On the PC side, there are no new...
The MOP Up: Black Desert shows pet love (August 20, 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...
Pokemon Go’s Yokohama event was a huge improvement over the lawsuit-provoking trainwreck in Chicago
Just a month ago now, Pokemon Go's Chicago festival was completely wrecked by connection issues that rendered the game an unplayable trainwreck for thousands...
Massively Overthinking: Alone together vs. forced grouping in MMORPGs
I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that everyone has at some point seen the xkcd called Isolation, but if not, there...
Almost nobody is happy with Pokemon Go’s irritating ‘exclusive raid battles’ plan
Pokemon Go players are buzzing today over the release of legendary Pokemon Mewtwo at the Yokohama, Japan, event, which according to Niantic allowed "thousands"...
The MOP Up: Portal Knights splits up the party (August 13, 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...
SuperData’s mid-2017 report reflects a wildly expanding gaming industry
Gaming analysis firm SuperData is touting a new report for marketers today, shedding some light on the shape of the industry so far in...
Mobile MMOs: Pokemon Go’s curfew, Logres’ launch, and spinoffs for Aion and TERA
By chance, we had a bunch of easily combinable mobile MMO news stories waiting to be written this morning, so let's get to them...
Pokemon Go is being sued over the disastrous Chicago live event
If you live in the midwest and are out only a ticket and a tank of gas for your trip to the botched Pokemon...
Pokemon Go raised $5.8M Sunday in spite of live event catastrophe
Pokemon Go's weekend Fest event may have been a massive and predictable failure of communication and preparation, but it wasn't a failure for Niantic's piggy...
Pokemon Go event organizers blame cell traffic overload for snafu
The fallout and analysis of the debacle that was last weekend's Pokemon Go Fest continues, as Niantic has been pressed for answers on why such...
