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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...
Riot employee fired over toxic chat comments says he deserved it
Last week, news that Riot Games Lead Experience Designer Aaron "RiotSanjuro" Rutledge had insulted a banned League of Legends streamer in a public chat...
League of Legends dev who insulted streamer is no longer with Riot Games
Two days ago, we reported that a League of Legends developer had landed himself in hot water after he went grossly overboard in insulting...
Riot apologizes for League of Legends dev who joked about streamer’s hypothetical death
Over the weekend, a Riot Games developer made a Terrible Mistake: Lead Experience Designer Aaron "RiotSanjuro" Rutledge insulted a banned streamer in League of Legends' public...
The MOP Up: Monster Hunter World’s Tokyo reveals (September 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...
Permateam aims to reduce toxicity by avoiding random grouping in games like Overwatch and League of Legends
Players feeling the frustration and sting of random grouping in Overwatch and other e-sports games might have a new ally in the form of...
Perfect Ten: The 10 tiers of MMORPG lore
In which we discuss varying levels of MMO lore effort and Eliot admits he doesn't remember the names of Pac-Man's ghosties.
The MOP Up: Skyforge gets a dark rush with the Revenant (September 10, 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...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds passes 10M sold
This year's online juggernaut is not, surprisingly enough, anything made by Valve, Blizzard, or Riot, but instead one stemmed from the mind of a...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds tops Steam concurrency, drawing from CS:GO’s playerbase
Remember a few weeks back when PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds took League of Legends to town on Twitch, beating Riot's giant for eyeball share on the...
The MOP Up: State of Decay 2’s multiplayer mayhem (August 27, 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...
SuperData’s July 2017 report sees PC rank reshuffle, Pokemon Go’s return, and GTAO’s console dominance
SuperData's July 2017 revenue report isn't going to surprise anyone, I suspect, but it's worth a look. On the PC side, there are no new...
Dauntless’ founder alpha has begun
Don't miss our hands-on with Dauntless from E3!We've been keeping an eye on Dauntless, the sci-fantasy online co-op action RPG from the former BioWare,...
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds whupped League of Legends on Twitch last week
Playerunknown's Battlegrounds may have one of the worst video game names in history, but it set a new record on Twitch last week.
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