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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has officially launched today; are you playing?
Conventional wisdom says you probably shouldn't launch a blockbuster video game four days before Christmas, but then conventional wisdom never met PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, which...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds moves over one million Xbox One units
Two days, one million copies sold. It's just another record for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' mantle.
The battle royale shooter moved over a million units during the...
MMOs you’ve never heard of: Rogalia, Lazarus, Dead Maze, We Ride, and SOS
Welcome back to our intermittent series on MMOs and other multiplayer games you you’ve never heard of! Let's run down five more floating to the...
The developer of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds laments the lack of video game IP protection
Did you know that there's no real IP protection for video games? We didn't know that either; we seem to recall a lot of...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is live on Xbox One
Those of you who had long awaited the chance to shoot at your fellow players after scavenging for guns whilst sitting on the couch...
SuperData says the e-sports industry grew to $1.5B this year alone
SuperData has a new report out this week that suggests e-sports haters will not be getting what they want for Christmas.
"The esports market has...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds tweaks female model’s creepy underwear
So how detailed do the dude-parts and lady-parts in your online games that are ostensibly about murdering each other really need to be?
Apparently not...
PUBG makes Aussie players geocache for lootcrates this weekend
Dammit Australia. As if buying lockboxes in video games isn't bad enough, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds means to make you chase them in real life.
Apparently, Xbox...
H1Z1 will be called King of Survival when Tencent ports it to China
This week's rumor that Tencent may be porting Daybreak's H1Z1 eastward has proven true, as the Chinese megacorp and Daybreak announced late last night...
Overwatch snags two Game Awards while Destiny 2 is honored by six nominations
Did you catch last night's Game Awards from LA? If not, you probably didn't miss anything super-groundbreaking, although Overwatch did quite well for itself...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds teases its desert map, eyes post-launch cosmetics
Still find yourself dizzy with disbelief about how the most awkwardly titled video game ever became 2017's biggest hit? Check out Polygon's rundown of...
Eternal Crusade considers battle royale mode, can’t comment on status of lead designer
Even Warhammer 40K Eternal Crusade might be jumping on the battle royale bandwagon. That's according to Behaviour Interactive's latest pair of player-directed Q&A posts.
"We...
The MOP Up: Pocket PUBG (December 3, 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...
Trion ‘still in active discussions’ with Bluehole over Devilian
With the explosive success of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in 2017, Bluehole Studio is rolling in media coverage, money, and popularity. But some of the studio's...
Bluehole’s CEO on how Ascent: Infinite Realm (A:IR) will breathe life into a stagnating MMORPG genre
Ready for some harsh truths, MMO players? Bluehole CEO Hyo-Seob Kim recently told GIbiz that he wasn't expecting PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds to do so well globally,...
Superdata’s October 2017 revenue report: Destiny 2’s and PUBG’s dominance
Destiny 2 may be fudging up left and right, but it still sold a truckton of copies.
That's according to Superdata, whose most recent revenue...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO stories of 2017
One thing you can say for the MMO industry: It never ceases to surprise all of us. No matter what predictions we may make...
Mobile MMO roundup: PUBG’s mobile version, Pokemon Go’s Ho-Oh, Mu Legends’ PvP, and Tera M’s launch
Welcome back to another mobile MMO roundup!
First up: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, which has yet to actually formally launch on PC, is already getting a mobile...
Warface jumps on the battle royale bandwagon
With the insane popularity of Fortnite and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds this year, it was inevitable that other titles would rush to copy the battle royale...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is coming to China with Tencent adjustments
Chinese players will soon also be allowed to play a video game about locking yourself in a box where you can scavenge for weapons...
