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Massively Overthinking: Alone together vs. forced grouping in MMORPGs

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

Pokemon Go organizers apologize for live event debacle, saying they’re ‘horrified with the results’

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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

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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...
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The Soapbox: The disastrous Pokemon Go Fest was just Niantic being Niantic, and that has to stop

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...
Ironically, this is the sort of controversy you'd probably rather face from inside a hot tub.

Massively Overthinking: Do MMORPGs aspire to pro-social mechanics?

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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...

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