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Wild West Online’s stagecoach is held up by negative reviews and no female characters
Perhaps Wild West Online is attempting to emulate life on the actual historical frontier. This week's launch has certainly been uncertain, fraught with peril,...
Activision-Blizzard talks battle royale and saving Destiny 2 as stock slowly recovers after Dow Jones snafu
Yesterday we teased ActiBlizz for putting out another boring quarterly financial report about its ever-growing piles of money, but even with World of Warcraft...
PlayerUnknown’s Battleground radically rebalances weaponry with its latest patch
There's going to be a big downtime for a patch for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds tonight; don't count on playing in tonight after 10 p.m. EDT....
Chinese authorities arrest 15 more accused PUBG hackers, fining them over $5M
Bluehole and PUBG Corp are apparently continuing their government-backed crackdown on PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds cheaters.
Last week, PUBG Corp told Steam players that it takes cheating...
Fortnite has become the ‘largest free-to-play console game of all time,’ SuperData says
"Fortnite is now the largest free-to-play console game of all time, in revenue generated and monthly active users," SuperData has declared in its monthly...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds balances weapons, brings Miramar map to the Xbox One
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds isn't giving up the fight against Fortnite for the market share of the battle royale crowd. The PvP shooter has a ton...
Massively Overthinking: What we really mean when we talk about ‘difficulty’ in MMORPGs
Massively OP reader Steve wants us to revisit the Daily Grind on making death more meaningful without making it more annoying. His letter was long, so...
Dutch Gaming Authority calls out four games as violating its lootbox policies
If you had expected the Netherlands to be leading the fight against lootboxes, you may be more clairvoyant than the rest of the population....
Coming soon: PUBG will finally let players block their most hated maps
Mappety map map maps. Soon you can pick your own map in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and won't be stuck in Miramar.
According to PUBG Corp, people...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds adds map changes and red zone shrinkage
Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene does not have kind words for people who dislike the red zone in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. In his own words, people who...
Bot-maker Bossland’s legit game flops, Germany rejects Blizzard’s US court victory and won’t enforce damages
Are you surprised to be hearing about Bossland again? We're surprised to be reporting on it. The German-based botmaker made headlines for the last...
The MOP Up: Seal Online embraces a cartoony spirit (April 15, 2018)
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...
PUBG Corp’s infringement lawsuit against NetEase may not be completely ridiculous after all
Last week, we wrote about how PUBG Corp is suing NetEase (and NetEase is threatening to sue everyone) over alleged copyright infringement in regard...
MOBAs provide a template for the future of the battle royale genre
So where will battle royale games be in another five years? We don't know just yet, but from a purely business standpoint we can...
Perfect Ten: Why trend-chasing doesn’t work at all for online games
Video games have always been a remarkably insular field; that's the nature of development. Someone produces Super Mario Bros, and a few years later...
NetEase threatens to sue everybody who cloned its battle royale clones
On Friday, we covered PUBG Corp's lawsuit against NetEase, which alleges that the Chinese company has infringed PUBG's copyrights in its overt battle royale...
DayZ to reboot with a new game engine but still won’t leave early access
Is it weird that it seems so long ago that DayZ was the "it" survival arena game for streamers? How quickly we've moved on,...
PUBG Corp sues Netease for cloning PUBG in Knives Out and Rules of Survival
Let the battle royale lawsuits begin! TorrentFreak caught wind of a new lawsuit in California that ought to set all the cloners on edge:...
Rumor: Ubisoft and Massive are building a battle royale game
According to a report on Gamereactor, Ubisoft would like a piece o' that PUBG and Fortnite action.
The publication claims to have an "anonymous source...
Overwatch downplays battle royale potential, introduces Overwatch Archives events
Is Overwatch getting a battle royale mode? Probably not. Blizzard Game Director Jeff Kaplan told Kotaku that the team has actually seriously considered wedging...
