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Blizzard and Riot attended the International Olympic Committee’s e-sports summit this past weekend
Over the last year, we've seen a ramp-up of high-level chatter about bringing e-sports to the Olympics. Last summer the co-president of the Paris Olympic...
PUBG had a great June thanks to the Steam sale, SuperData says in its latest revenue ranking
SuperData's global revenue report for June 2018 is out, and it's actually not particularly exciting for the summer months as not that much has...
GOG offers No Man’s Sky refunds after players discover that multiplayer won’t come for months yet
As you may have seen, No Man's Sky is back in the spotlight thanks to this week's massive NEXT multiplayer update.
However, not all players...
SuperData suggests Fortnite is ‘cannibalizing’ top online games as Epic’s value reaches $14B
Last week, SuperData released a thinkpiece on how Fortnite isn't necessarily destroying the rest of the gaming industry, but hold up because this week...
Riot co-founder asks the Twitterverse whether it should build an MMO
In today's installment of Was This A Joke Or Not Theater, it seems that the co-founder of Riot Games (maker of League of Legends,...
Netease calls PUBG Corp’s copyright lawsuit ‘shameless’, Riot and Tencent win non-compete lawsuit against alleged cloner
Remember back in April, when Korea-based PUBG Corp. accused China-based Netease of ripping off PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds with its battle royale titles Knives Out (which...
SuperData: Fortnite’s success hit League of Legends and PUBG hard, but not all online games are struggling
There's a new thinkpiece out on how Fortnite happened and what it all means every week lately, but SuperData's latest might be a comfort...
The MOP Up: Star Trek Online’s DS9 expansion gets a console release date (July 14, 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 Daily Grind: How early should an MMORPG’s hype cycle begin?
GIbiz put out an interesting piece this week looking 10 years into the past to see where the buzz was in the game industry...
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...
The Daily Grind: Does teaching toxic MMO gamers what they did wrong actually help?
As RPS reported this week, Valve has taken the relatively unusual step of making your Dota 2 and CSGO report cards semi-public - that is,...
The Soapbox: Do MMOs still fall victim to the copycat curse?
When Radical Heights launched, I was inspired to put together a whole Perfect Ten about why trend-chasing doesn't work for online games. Obviously, my...
Bless Online players riot and request refunds over missing endgame PvP, cash shop shenanigans, and duping as Steam reviews plummet
If you thought the Bless Online community was in meltdown after two days of early access headaches, wait until you see the reaction to...
PvP robot battler The Maestros programs a closed beta weekend
If you've ever had the desire to send in hordes of minions to fight at your command, yet you also felt anguished about causing...
Massively Overthinking: The case for rarity and randomness in MMO monetization
Last week, Guild Wars 2's Crystin Cox gave a monetization interview to Gamasutra during which she made one specific argument I wanted to pull...
SuperData’s April 2018 revenue report shows Fortnite setting new records, GTAO slowing down
Fortnite had another record month of revenue in April, according to SuperData's latest global revenue report. "Epic’s Battle Royale shooter made $296 million in...
Atlas Reactor arrives in China via Steam
Atlas Reactor really needs to be given some credit for striking out in a different direction when the rest of the PvP scene was...
Yes, Pyke, you’re the newest League of Legends champion
Gosh, isn't it just the worst when you've got those friends for whom everything just ties back to their deals? We get it, Karen,...
E-sports roundup: Riot and UC Berkeley, Hi-Rez’s varsity league, UK collegiate e-sports, cash for Averett e-sports
Still don't think we should take e-sports seriously? Doesn't even matter because it's happening anyway. To wit:
Riot Games has partnered with UC Berkeley to...
Ohio college begins Fortnite e-sports team and scholarship
E-sports programs and scholarships at universities stopped being newsworthy years ago once they were a dime a dozen, but a new one from Ohio's...