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League of Legends increases prices in the UK over Brexit currency woes
Your pounds won't carry you quite as far in League of Legends at this point. The game's prices for Riot Points (i.e., the currency...
GTAV OpenIV modding continues, but Rockstar’s barred the Liberty City module
The Rockstar modding fiasco still isn't over.
Back in June, Rockstar and TakeTwo began sending takedowns to the operators of modding tools of varying skeeviness,...
Ship of Heroes gets down and dirty with its street sweeper powerset
Just because your city street happens to be located in a massive starship hurtling through the cosmos doesn't mean that it lacks for cleaning...
The MOP Up: Warframe’s Chains of Harrow (July 2, 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 MOP Up: Destiny 2’s class roster (June 18, 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...
Battle Bards Episode 100: Centennial spectacular!
After four years and over 700 MMORPG music tracks, the Battle Bards have arrived at their 100th show! For this centennial spectacular, Syl, Steff,...
Massively Overthinking: MMO monetization run amok
Over the last couple of weeks, the monetization of unreleased games has become a pervasive and uncomfortable theme for the MMO genre. Just in...
Old School RuneScape players threaten to riot over LGBTQ pride event
Old School RuneScape's playerbase isn't showing its best side this week.
Motherboard reports that following the announcement by a Jagex employee that a small gay...
League of Legends NA e-sports league reorg means $75K pro player salaries, revenue sharing, and player association
Riot Games is in the midst of a major reorganization of its League of Legends e-sports organization, at least in North America. The company...
A UK university will offer e-sports business coursework, and this is a truly good thing
Most of the people playing e-sports are exceptional gamers, and to get that good at anything, you miss out on a whole bunch of...
The Daily Grind: What makes an MMO community toxic?
I sincerely do not envy the task of MMO studios and community managers when it comes to wrangling their crowd of diverse, fickle, and...
Leaderboard: Almost half of e-sports viewers don’t even play the games they’re spectating
It may sound crazy, but a huge number of people who pour eyeball time and money into e-sports don't even play the games they're...
Wild West Online announced for later this year, Kickstarter coming soon
If you've been wishing for horses and western MMORPGs, then saddle up par'dner -- we're about to ride off into a glorious sunrise.
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Russian Pokemon Go player sentenced over blasphemy law
The 22-year-old Russian vlogger convicted of playing Pokemon Go inside a church has been hit with a 3.5-year suspended sentence.
Ruslan Sokolovsky was found "guilty of inciting...
The MOP Up: SMITE’s console mea culpa (May 7, 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...
Analyst suggests Tencent’s new global games service will compete with Steam
If you're not a big fan of Steam's dominance of gaming trends in the west, maybe you think a competitor will do the service...
Greg Street discusses balancing League of Legends for all skill levels
How do you balance a video game? It's kind of an ongoing question, but it's also one that Greg Street (aka Ghostcrawler) has been...
SuperData CEO discusses the money problem of e-sports
Whether you're a big fan of the e-sports scene or you would be quite happy never hearing about it ever again, you are no...
One Shots: Avenging angel
When you push a player too far, commit too many crimes, and flaunt your evil with one of those tacky pre-battle speeches, you're going...
SuperData February 2017: World of Tanks perks up, Hearthstone is sinking
Happy SuperData day! That's the monthly holiday when we pore over the market analysis report, freak out over something doing well, freak over something...
