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WoW loses three more developers: Craig Amai, Tyson Murphy, and James Waugh
Looks like Blizzard has lost more than just Chris Metzen this week; MMO Champion reports that World of Warcraft Lead Quest Designer Craig Amai has...
League of Legends’ newest champion is a tree that will hug you
The cat is out of the bag and has scampered up the tree, as news of League of Legends' newest champion has been confirmed.
Ivern,...
League of Legends boasts 103 million monthly players
League of Legends has a lot to brag about today as its parent company, Riot Games, turns 10 years old: The studio just announced...
The Daily Grind: Should MMORPG housing have login and maintenance rules?
A Massively OP reader named MrPoolaty recently wrote in to us to talk about the resumption of Final Fantasy XIV's housing demolition timers. See,...
Rob Pardo of World of Warcraft fame launches Bonfire Studios
Rob Pardo is the former lead designer of World of Warcraft, but he's since moved on from Blizzard. Now, he's embarking on a new...
Superdata: Online games account for 60% of digital PC revenue
Superdata has published its MMO and MOBA Games Market Report for the 2016 cycle, and let me just warn you before we dig in:...
New report says South Korean MMORPG companies are ‘facing a crisis’
The Financial Times blog has a doom-and-gloom report out this week on the gaming market of South Korea, specifically the MMO genre.
"The country’s online...
Superdata’s July 2016 data show Guild Wars 2 surging, Pokemon Go on top
Superdata's July report on online gaming revenues is in, and there are some predictable bits and some surprises. On the P2P MMO front, the...
League of Legends community clashes with Riot over e-sports, patches, and money
It's no surprise when drama crops up in a gaming community of millions, especially when professional e-sports and money are involved. So it goes...
Gamescom 2016: SCUM turns prison riots into survival fun
It truly seems as though game developers worldwide are participating in a massive challenge to see who can take the most wild or ridiculous...
Pokemon Go: Account auctions, ‘real world social,’ and Canadian police humor
Remember Pokemon Go, that thing everyone played before No Man's Sky took over the news cycle? Good times.
CNBC reports that y'all have way...
Riot Games sues the makers of League of Legends hacks
Blizzard has quite happily gone after cheat-makers in court before, but now Riot Games is getting in on the act by suing the biggest...
Superdata’s June report shows Overwatch, WoW still on top
Superdata's latest report on the worldwide digital games market is out, and Overwatch owned the month of June on PC, to no one's surprise,...
League of Legends’ overhauled Ryze lands on the test server
League of Legends character Ryze has had so many do-overs that even the Riot Games copywriter can't remember whether it's been three or four....
NBA champion Rick Fox partners with Daybreak’s H1Z1 for e-sport initiative
Multitime NBA champion Rick Fox has his sights set on H1Z1 as the next big e-sports field, so much so that he has partnered up...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 71: Falling to the Force
Justin, Bree, and Larry talk SWTOR's Dark vs. Light campaign, plus ESO, WoW, SOTA, WildStar's character boosts, EQII's $400 guild halls, and LOTRO's new raid, with a mailbag question on the Steam summer sale.
Overwatch, League of Legends, and World of Warcraft top May Superdata charts
Probably no big surprise here, but according to Superdata Research in May, Blizzard and Riot Games are still kings of the online PC gaming...
Overwatch is tearing it up in Korea
We know that Overwatch has been more than the talk of the town, as the game almost effortlessly shot past 10 million units sold...
The MOP Up: League of Legends fights in-house toxicity (June 19, 2016)
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 MOP Up: EverQuest gets hardcore (June 12, 2016)
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...
