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PUBG: Record profits in 2017, Savage map, PC patch, and the doom of mobile
PUBG may be giving up ground to Fortnite, but it made Bluehole a crapton of money last year. MMO Culture reports that the company...
GDC 2018: Ready Player One Now, billion person gaming, and mitigating abuse
It's no surprise that Ready Player One was constantly being referenced at GDC 2018, especially in VR, AR, and MMO panels. It's not just because of...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds celebrates a year of early access
Can you believe that it's been a year since PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds first launched into early access? Probably. There's a video to celebrate the anniversary...
GDC 2018: Making sense of battle royale MMO Mavericks with Automaton Games
So as you may know, I'm an MMORPG guy - not really a battle royale guy. There are some cool ideas for people who like...
Analysts predict that major publishers will pivot to counter (and catch up with) Fortnite
Epic's not even remotely a nobody in gaming, but it's still a surprise to find out that its runaway battle royale hit Fortnite actually...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds resists region-locking, copies Fortnite’s events
Some calls from players urging the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds studio to region-lock Chinese players into their own segregated area are being resisted by the game's...
Fortnite talks game modifications while players design forts and resell skins, all while crushing PUBG
There's a lot of stuff swirling around the Fortnite community of late, starting with adjustments to the game's Blitz mode to reduce how many...
Players suspect PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Mobile is a land full of bots
So, how are you doing with shooting folks in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Mobile? Better than you'd expect, given the fact that it's a mobile device...
Fortnite dominates iOS mobile charts, PUBG soft launches in North America, and somebody stabs somebody else over PUBG
Fortnite's mobile version is already kicking butt and taking names, even landlocked to iOS. According to app-tracker SensorTower, the game is ranked #1 for...
PUBG, TERA, and A:IR company Bluehole has gone on a shopping spree
South Korea's Bluehole has been busy as the rise of PUBG has filled its coffers. It partnered with Tencent. It's been hiring for TERA's...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds lays out ambitious 2018 roadmap
The name that put Battle Royale on the map is going to fight hard to keep that throne. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds released its 2018 roadmap...
Massively Overthinking: Is battle royale a fad?
This week in Massively Overthinking, I want to talk about something out on the fringes of our genre: battle royale games. We've been watching...
H1Z1 is finally going free-to-play
Remember way back in the long, long ago, before H1Z1 hit early access, split, reconstituted, renamed, didn't launch, aborted a console port, and all...
Fortnite is now more popular on Twitch than PUBG
Who saw this one coming? Fortnite has officially pushed past PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in terms of games that get the most playtime on Twitch. That's...
The MOP Up: Closers chooses its next character (March 4, 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...
SuperData says ‘pay-to-play’ MMOs declined again in January 2018
SuperData published its January recap of the worldwide digital games market this week, and the analytics firm doesn't have much good to say for...
MMO Business Roundup: EA Spouse 14 years later, PUBG poaching from Riot, and Funcom financials
Welcome back to another edition of our informal business roundup, where we wedge all the fun MMO industry tidbits that pile up in our...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds very slightly changes its paid and free lootbox system
A new patch for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds means new loot crates, and that also means that you have an option for one that you can...
Rumor: H1Z1 may finally be launching; the ‘royalty showdown’ begins today
Yesterday, in our report on H1Z1's plummeting player numbers since the onslaught from PUBG and Fortnite, we mentioned that the game's launch, once planned...
Conan Exiles isn’t going the lockbox and battle royale route – for now
Are you a little sick and tired of lockboxes everywhere and all of these games desperately trying to jump onto the battle royale bandwagon?...
