virtual reality
Camelot Unchained lands $7.5M investment to hasten development: Our chat with Mark Jacobs on funding, VR, and beta one
If you know one thing about indie MMORPG Camelot Unchained, it's that CEO Mark Jacobs appears to dwell perpetually in internet comment sections amiably...
The Survivalist: Another year, another Survival Game guide
A new year, a new batch of survival games! Yes, the genre has become so popular that one guide, no not even two guides...
The MOP Up: Monster Hunter World merch (January 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...
Massively OP’s 2017 awards debrief and annual recap
As we did in 2014, 2015, and 2016, today I'm going to recap our annual awards and other meta articles from the end of 2017....
Sumo Digital picks up CCP’s ejected EVE Valkyrie studio
Good news for anybody out there worried about the future of EVE Valkyrie: CCP's Newcastle studio, the one that runs Valkyrie, has been acquired...
The most popular MMORPG conversations of 2017
Last week, we posted a rundown of the most popular MMORPG articles of 2017, calculated strictly by the number of pageviews they got. Today, we're going...
Call of Duty swatting incident leads to man’s death in Kansas
A case of gamer "swatting" in the U.S. has led to the death of an innocent father of two in Kansas earlier this week.
According...
CCP is working on ‘a new and highly ambitious MMORPG’
Even with massive downsizing and the end of its virtual reality ambitions, CCP hasn't quite thrown in the towel just yet.
One of our tipsters...
EVE Evolved: 2017 EVE Online year in review
We've reached the end of another year, and it's certainly been a busy one for EVE Online. This year saw heavy gameplay iteration, with...
Perfect Ten: 20 multiplayer games to watch in 2018
A couple of weeks ago I covered 20(ish) MMORPGs that we are looking forward to seeing develop, test, and launch in 2018. But as...
Massively OP’s Best of 2017 Awards: Biggest MMO Industry Blunder of 2017
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2017 awards continue today with our award for Biggest MMO Industry Blunder of 2017, which we awarded to the industry's VR obsession...
ARK Park has been delayed to spring 2018 for ‘polish and optimization’
I'm afraid ARK Park, the virtual reality spin-off of ARK Survival Evolved led by Snail Games, is not going to make its planned December...
BioWare’s Anthem may have a virtual reality mode
BioWare has been unusually quiet about its upcoming Destiny 2 killer, Anthem, since the title's initial announcement this past summer. And while nothing official...
EVE: Valkyrie gets a new map and spectator mode for the holidays
Happy holidays, EVE: Valkyrie fans! Enjoy a shiny box of... wait, why are you hyperventilating? This isn't a shutdown notice. (Which, you know, was...
Gunjack 2 is still alive, lands on Gear VR
Don't despair thinking that the entire EVE universe is collapsing into a single title just yet; the black hole theory has yet to be...
Overwatch’s Tracer spotted in Ready Player One trailer
The official trailer is now out for Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One, and Overwatch fans may be pleasantly surprised to see a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo...
Ask Mo: Counting the hits and misses of our 2017 predictions
As we do every year, today we’re going to peer back into the depths of last year's staff predictions for the genre and the games...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2017
Think of all the wacky things devs have said in public in front of gamers and journalists this year.
Now imagine what gets said behind...
The MOP Up: Pocket PUBG (December 3, 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...
Researchers document Pokemon Go’s vehicular casualties, Niantic raises $200M for Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
Pokemon Go developer Niantic just got enough money to build a second pool in which to put all that money to roll around in....
