virtual reality
MMO biz roundup: The voice actor strike, e-sports crime, CCP VR, Crowfall, and new acquisitions for Tencent, EA, and Nexon
Let's end the week talking about money. What could go wrong?
The year-long video game voice actor strike is finally fully over, as more...
OrbusVR outlines its early access schedule for December
The production schedule for OrbusVR is speeding right along, and the game is just about ready to head into early access. For a given...
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...
EVE Online expands its free-to-play offerings in the wake of studio instability
Good news, EVE Online fans! CCP is pretty happy with how the game's Alpha clone system has worked out, all things considered. In fact,...
Black Desert publisher Kakao declares 550M registered users across all its games
Black Desert publisher and South Korean gaming giant Kakao announced this morning that it's accumulated "over 550 million registered users across its games portfolio...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs where you can live out your giant robot fantasies
Two years ago, NCsoft dealt a harsh blow to a certain subset of gaming fans when it canned the development of Project HON. This...
So here’s what’s going on with EVE Valkyrie now that CCP’s downsized
Yesterday, MOP's Brendan reported on the startling news that CCP Games, long known for its flagship MMORPG sandbox EVE Online and more recently known...
CCP Games ceases VR development, closes two studios – no negative impact on EVE Online
Icelandic business website mbl.is has just reported that EVE Online developer CCP Games is planning to close two of its offices and cease all...
Former Blizzard executive Rob Pardo thinks we’re a long way off from VR MMOs
Rob Pardo is no longer with Blizzard, but he can still count World of Warcraft's success as a big feather in his cap. So...
OrbusVR prepares for its wild zones and endgame dungeons for beta 3
It might seem a little early in OrbusVR's life cycle to be super invested in the endgame, but the release of the game's third...
Facebook announces $199 Oculus Go, drops core Oculus bundle to $399 permanently
Facebook has announced that it's once again dropping the price of the Oculus Rift: The device-with-headset bundle will fall from $499 to $399, making...
EVE Evolved: What to expect from EVE Vegas 2017
CCP Games' annual EVE Vegas event kicks off in less than a week on October 6th, and once again MassivelyOP will be on the...
The MOP Up: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds hits record concurrency (October 1, 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...
Games business roundup: VR, Project Alloy, Pearl Abyss, pay-to-dress-up, Goldman Sachs, lockboxes, and Bluehole
By chance, a whole bunch of industry-related posts landed in our newsroom this week. Well, not entirely by chance; our tipsters showered us in...
EVE Valkyrie’s Warzone overhaul nukes VR requirement, adds capture-the-flag mode
EVE Valkyrie's Warzone overhaul is live today for those with $29.99 rattling around in their space piggybanks, unless you already own the game, in...
The Daily Grind: Why are you not into virtual reality?
Massively OP reader and commenter Sally Bowls pointed us to a brief post on Axios in which a VR consultant and former Oculus employee opines...
EVE Valkyrie will be getting loot boxes
There's really no two ways about this particular tidbit of news. CCP is adding loot boxes to EVE Valkyrie, according to a recent interview....
CCP’s VR sports game Sparc has arrived on PSVR today
Remember CCP's multiplayer VR sports sim Sparc? We first heard about it back in February, and now as planned, the Icelandic studio known best for...
Leaderboard: Do the HTC Vive’s and Oculus Rift’s price cuts change your opinion on VR pricing?
When Oculus dropped the price of the Oculus Rift down to $400 earlier this summer, supposedly temporarily (but not its first drop), analysts were...
ARK Park’s latest trailer goes in guns blazing
Welcome... to Jurassic Park!
What, that's not this thing? Oh, sorry, our bad. Welcome... to ARK Park! At least it rhymes!
The virtual reality off-shoot of...
