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H1Z1 roars past 10 million users on PlayStation 4
After it looked like H1Z1 was being rendered obsolete by last year's rise of PUBG and Fortnite, having lost 90% of its playerbase by...
Battle Royale roundup: Realm Royale, H1Z1, PUBG, and Cuisine Royale
All hands on deck, people! We are at Maximum Battle Royale this summer and the bubble hasn't burst - at least not yet. Maybe...
Crowfall explains the Hunger that’s killing everything
The Hunger is going to destroy everything in Crowfall. That's how the story ends. You can stave it off for a time, and the...
Crowfall’s seasonal changes affect more than just the vistas
Forget oohing and ahhing over day/night cycles in MMORPGs -- Crowfall is bringing whole seasons to its campaign worlds, and they're going to be...
Perfect Ten: The best MMO debuts by year, 1997-2006
By now, many of you probably know that I'm the curator of the MMO Timeline on my personal blog. On this page, I've attempted...
Let’s all go clubbing in Grand Theft Auto Online
Bring your glitter eyeshadows, your glow-in-the-dark bracelets, and some extra earplugs because we're going clubbing in GTAO and you're invited.
"World class talent have announced...
SuperData’s May 2018 revenue report shows Fortnite slowing down, Pokemon Go picking up for summer
May 2018 was good to Fortnite, again, SuperData's latest global revenue report shows, but its growth rate may be coming to a middle. "Fortnite...
Daybreak mourns the death of H1Z1’s lead animator
This week, Daybreak is grieving over the loss of one of its key developers, David "Sarge" Carter. Carter worked as an animator on a couple...
SpatialOS MMORPG sandbox Fractured has just gone live with its $116K Kickstarter
If you've been following Fractured and SpatialOS as long as we have, then you're probably right on top of the game's Kickstarter launch today....
EVE Online’s ousting of an epithet-slinging CSM candidate was part of a corporate plot because of course it was
If this isn't the most canonically EVE Online story, I have no idea what is.
Remember earlier this month when we reported on the drama...
Dark Age of Camelot delays its free-to-play shift to 2019
While we reported in December 2017 that Broadsword was aiming for a free-to-play option for Dark Age of Camelot, we haven't seen a lot...
APB Reloaded lays out its roadmap, hopes to bring the game to Unreal 4
With multiple projects in the works and an effort to bring the console and PC versions into parity, APB Reloaded is enjoying actual development...
EVE Evolved: Will EVE Online’s Abyssal Deadspace ever be expanded?
EVE Online's recent Into the Abyss expansion has managed to grip me in a way that few expansions have, providing a challenging new solo...
The MOP Up: Neverwinter’s five-year anniversary and Ravenloft campaign (June 24, 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...
‘The pressure is on’ for Camelot Unchained’s beta test
"The pressure is on, but in the best of ways. The energy in the studio is incredible, we are all excited about how close...
Bethsoft alleges Behaviour and WB ripped off Fallout Shelter in the new Westworld mobile game
A trio of companies known best to our audience for their MMOs are gearing up for a big court battle in the streets of...
E3 2018: Bill Roper on gaming’s smoke and mirrors, Worlds Adrift, and building on SpatialOS
For MMO players, Improbable brought some interesting ideas to GDC this past spring. It also brought some games I wasn't expecting, and the ones I...
Wild West Online delays its next patch, but will anyone be around to play it?
A planned June 15th patch for Wild West Online obviously didn't happen, and now we know why: The developers said that when they took...
PSA: EVE Online is offering a 15% Omega discount through June 26
Devoid of further context, the phrase "Omega Discount" sounds vaguely threatening. It's the last discount? No, it's a discount on the price of picking...
Crowfall shines more light on its day/night cycle
With a fully dynamic world that involves varied spawns, parcels that are moved around, and generated terrain, the Crowfall team had a tougher challenge...
