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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?...
PUBG delays roadmap to March, retools ping-lock plans
The ping-locking system that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds began testing last month is finally back on track, PUBG Corp says today on Steam. The team says...
Daybreak’s zombie battle royale game H1Z1 has lost 90% of its playerbase since July
Polygon has a report out this afternoon sourcing data aggregator GitHyp, both of which are casting doubt on H1Z1's future viability as a game...
The MOP Up: FFXIV’s Eorzean Symphony (February 18, 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...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has a roadmap for 2018 coming soon
So what's actually going on for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds? Most of the news we've heard about the game this year has been focused around jumping...
Take a look at the gameplay for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on mobile
At long last, your nightmare of having moments in the day when you might not be playing PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is coming to an end....
The MOP Up: Black Desert’s Ninja arrives in Southeast Asia (February 11, 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...
Monster Hunter World topples PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on Xbox One
You cannot play Monster Hunter World on your desktop computer (for a while, anyhow). You cannot play PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds on your PlayStation 4. But...
PUBG’s Reshade-blocking patch lands tonight as Bluehole bans 1M cheaters in January
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has an extreme cheating problem, and it's not going away. Anti-cheat tool BattlEye announced today that it helped Bluehole ban over a...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds blocks players from using Reshade with its latest patch
The latest patch for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is supposedly focused around improving Miramar with more cover and more stuff to discover, making it a more...
