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Pokemon Go organizers apologize for live event debacle, saying they’re ‘horrified with the results’
Over the weekend, we reported on the distastrous Pokemon Go Fest in Chicago, where thousands of paying ticket holders spent most of the day...
SuperData June 2017: ROBLOX, GTAV, and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds are making bank
SuperData's global digital games revenue summary for June 2017 is out, and it's a strange melange of huge shifts and no changes at all.
On the...
The Soapbox: The disastrous Pokemon Go Fest was just Niantic being Niantic, and that has to stop
I know I complain a lot about Pokemon Go in my articles here, but there's a reason for this. I'm a huge fan not just of the...
Pokemon Go Fest in Chicago is pretty much a trainwreck
If you've ever been to a massive gathering of tech-savvy people -- like say, a gaming convention -- you know better than to rely...
Pokemon Go: Milwaukee County lawsuit injunction and preparing for legendaries
Back in February, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, tried to prevent Pokemon Go player-inflicted park damage by requiring ARG developers, including Niantic, to acquire permits before implementing games within the park....
Pokemon Go: Global summer events and which country spends the most
If you're looking for something to do this summer and you live in a big city, Pokemon Go -- or at least gawking at...
The MOP Up: SMITE sees a Divine Light (July 9, 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...
Pokémon Go celebrates its anniversary with a hat-wearing Pikachu
It is genuinely hard to believe that it has been a year already since Pokémon Go took the world by storm (and dominated the...
Pokemon Go’s first anniversary report card
July 6th, 2017, marks Pokemon Go's first year anniversary. Love it or hate it, it's a game that quickly made a global impact. It's been released...
Pokemon Go has pulled in $1.2B in revenue
Pokemon Go officially has all the money: According to app research group Apptopia, the game has now raked in $1.2 billion dollars in revenue...
Pokemon Go: The Milwaukee lawsuit, rare Pikachu, and the gym reporting problem
It's been almost a year now since non-expat Americans were able to play Niantic's Pokemon Go. While we're naturally seeing birthday rumors, the game's unique...
Massively Overthinking: Do MMORPGs aspire to pro-social mechanics?
Massively OP reader and Patron Avaera has a thoughtful question for the team and readers this week. "I wish more virtual world games thought deeply...
SuperData May 2017: WoW recombinated, Dota 2 in the top 10, and Pokemon Go out
Almost lost in the buzz today was the release of SuperData's rundown of the global digital games market for May. You'll notice immediately that...
E3 2017: ARK Survival Evolved on scope creep, Xbox One X, and leaving early access
So ARK: Survival Evolved is going to be the first big survival sandbox not named Minecraft or Don't Starve to not only make it to launch...
Blizzard is offering a third round of BlizzCon tickets, so don’t despair (yet)
Did you miss out on your last attempt at snagging BlizzCon 2017 tickets? Of course you did. Those things sell out faster than unicorn...
The Chicago Pokemon Go Fest was sold out in less than a minute
Following the huge reveal of Pokemon Go's summer content plans -- detailed in yesterday's massive overview and interview by MOP's Andrew Ross -- Niantic...
E3 2017: Pokemon Go’s raiding, gym revamp, badges, and an interview with Niantic
Surprise! Niantic brought Pokemon Go to E3 2017 and invited members of the gaming press outside the sacred halls of the Los Angeles Convention Center...
The MOP Up: EVE Valkyrie lowers its price point (June 11, 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: MMO monetization run amok
Over the last couple of weeks, the monetization of unreleased games has become a pervasive and uncomfortable theme for the MMO genre. Just in...
Pokemon Go Fest unleashes summer events in the US, Europe, and Japan
Can you believe Pokemon Go is almost a year old? Remember back when there was so much PoGo news that we gave up and...
