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The MOP Up: Honoring RIFT’s Wintercharm (December 24, 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...
Destiny 2’s playerbase is melting down over holiday lockboxes in Eververse
Destiny 2 just can't seem to stop pissing off everyone. Its Dawning holiday event, detractors argue, is overtly designed as a moneygrab focused around...
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...
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...
Perfect Ten: The healthiest live MMORPGs at the end of 2017
As Counting Crows told us, it's been a long December, although the fact that it has also only just started being December speaks to...
Riot’s new promo video argues e-sports are indeed sports
No one will be surprised by Riot Games' latest e-sports video. Riot Games really likes e-sports. Indeed, Riot Games believes e-sports are real sports.
"Not...
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...
The MOP Up: League of Legends doesn’t want to grow up (November 26, 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...
The Soapbox: The long tail of game development isn’t an excuse for gouging
Don't be too mad at Star Wars: Battlefront II. It's a symptom of a problem, not the cause. I mean, be mad at people...
ARK: Survival Evolved players riot over turrets as Aberration is pushed to December
Over the weekend, Studio Wildcard posted up an ARK Survival Evolved dev blog about turrets. You guys, I had no idea turrets were such...
For Science! Researchers find link between fluid intelligence and elite MOBA play
In a new paper released last week, University of York researchers sought to examine whether research that strategy gaming (like chess and arcade games)...
EA claims Star Wars Battlefront II’s business model aims to ‘provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment’
Some awards, you do not want to win. The Darwin award, for example. Or "worst business model of the year." Or "most downvoted comment...
Perfect Ten: A list of all the MMORPGs I supposedly hate
Did you know about all the MMOs I hate? I sure as heck didn't! I mean, I knew there were a few games I...
Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan on WoW Classic and the Overwatch toxicity ‘strike team’
Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan gave an interview on Reddit this week that provides an interesting perspective from an original World of Warcraft developer who defected to...
EVE Evolved: EVE Online’s CCP Games is gambling with the livelihoods of employees
Last week we broke the story that EVE Online developer CCP Games is backing out of the virtual reality games market, closing its Altanta...
Game devs react angrily to ESA’s support of government tax proposal
Last week, the Entertainment Software Association, the video game trade association you probably know best from its stewardship of E3, released a contentious statement...
League of Legends encourages new players to embrace being noobs
Today marks the eighth year of League of Legends on the market, and it's a legacy of players being told to git gud. Thus,...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds passes up League of Legends in Korean PC bangs
If you are not at least keeping an eye on PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and how it's currently disrupting the entire online gaming market, you probably...
The Daily Grind: Is PUBG finally the ‘WoW killer killer’ we’ve been waiting for?
Say the words "WoW killer" to a bunch of MMORPG players in 2017 and you're bound to get eyerolls, for good reason: Even though...
SuperData: ‘The esports market has finally hit the mainstream’
In promotional materials associated with its new paid "Esports Scoreboard," gaming anaylsis firm SuperData - known best to our audience for its monthly revenue...
