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Massively OP’s spring and Easter MMORPG event roundup

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Bunnies and eggs! Flowers and grass! Lots and lots of chocolate as we hoard every Cadbury thing we can find! (Or maybe that's just...

Study claims playing Pokemon Go is associated with happiness attributes

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A research team from the University of Wisconsin–Madison has a paper out this month purporting to show that Pokemon Go play essentially makes people happier,...

Pokemon Go counts 65M players, plans gym raids and co-op gameplay

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Niantic's latest Pokemon Go post might seem like a mundane thank-you note for all its many awards, but there are two bits buried within...

U.S. district court hears Pokemon Go trespassing lawsuit

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Last summer when Pokemon Go took off, so did the lawsuits from property owners who claimed Niantic was effectively encouraging players to illegally trespass...
Oh, yeah, all is well, totally.

Pokemon Go has lost 80% of its users a year after launch

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There are two ways to look at the latest player numbers from Pokémon Go. The first is to say that things are downright peachy;...

The Soapbox: Why is Pokemon GO still a tech demo?

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I've been a bit frustrated with Niantic lately. I love some of its ideas, but I watched someone else play Ingress prior to Pokemon GO's...

Pokemon Go shinies, promo codes, and trading

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Pokemon GO recently ran a Water Festival to celebrate International Water Day on March 22, a holiday I hadn't known existed in either America or Japan (though...
Darn it.

SuperData February 2017: World of Tanks perks up, Hearthstone is sinking

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Happy SuperData day! That's the monthly holiday when we pore over the market analysis report, freak out over something doing well, freak over something...

The MOP Up: ARK’s console editions get a hair-do (March 26, 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...

The MOP Up: Kali awakens in Dragon Nest (March 19, 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...

Japan and the US led mobile app sales in 2016

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We're number one! No, actually, we're number two. And it's in mobile sales. Dammit. That's according to AppAnnie, which on Friday released its 2016 rankings...

The MOP Up: MMOs make math fun (March 5, 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...

Pokemon Go: Japan’s snorlax event, gyms, PvP, and trading

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Despite what I may think, Niantic is still calling Pokemon GO an MMO at GDC 2017. Senior Product Manager Tatsuo Nomura referred to it as one...

Niantic cracks down on third-party sales in Ingress

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Stop cheating, you cheating cheaters, or else we're gonna take your stuff. That's the gist of the message out of Niantic this week to Ingress...
Avec les hommes et le Pokey.

Shooter denied bond in Virginia Pokemon Go murder case

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Back in January, we reported on the tragic case of Jiansheng Chen, a 60-year-old Virginia resident who was playing Pokemon Go in his family's...

Pokemon Go: 650M downloads, update cadence, and Ingress 2.0

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There's lots going on with Pokemon Go right now, thanks in part to the official Pokemon Day that kicked off the week. Here's a...

ARK: Survival Evolved rockets up Superdata’s January revenue rankings

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The latest Superdata Research report is in for the month of January 2017, and in addition to an increase of 9.8% of digital game...
I HAVE TO RENEW MY HOUSE COME ON

The Daily Grind: Is an MMO still an MMO if it lacks chat?

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In the comments of Andrew's last Soapbox on whether or not Pokemon Go properly constitutes an MMO, veteran MMORPG designer Raph Koster argued provocatively against...

The Soapbox: Pokemon Go Generation 2 still isn’t a real MMO

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Pokemon GO Generation 2 is out now, and it feels a lot like an MMO expansion in a lot of ways: We have new features,...
Insufficiently slow.

Pokemon Go adds the second generation of pokemon to the game

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It's time for you to go out and catch some Gen 2 starters and maybe a Wooper or a Miltank. The second generation of...

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