virtual reality
Sparc is CCP’s new non-EVE VR sports simulator, due out 2017
A couple of weeks ago, I was puzzling over the fact that besides a few golfing and racing games, we don't have many sports...
ZeniMax attempts to block Facebook’s use of Oculus Rift code
Not content with a partially (and lucrative) legal victory over Facebook and Oculus Rift, ZeniMax is now looking to block the use of specific...
The MOP Up: Hearthstone gets ready to banish dozens of cards (February 19, 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...
One Shots: The power of pink hair
Wherever there is trouble, Manastu Utakata will be there to fight it with her lightning-fast screenshot button and trademark pink hair. Villains, start running right...
EVE Valkyrie’s upcoming patch introduces fresh mechanics and maps via Wormholes
EVE Valkyrie is getting an enormous patch next week on February 15th. Dubbed Wormholes, it's got wormholes. Story over. Just kidding. Wormholes are familiar...
Best Buy is pulling Oculus demo stations
The best hope for VR headsets to move units is indisputably in the field of demonstrations. That's really always been the hope that the...
CCP’s VR shooter Gunjack 2 patches in weeklies, competitive challenges
Gunjack moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Ah, there it goes. You...
Blizzard sells toys, ZeniMax buys VR studio, and Jagex brings RuneScape to Amazon Echo
Consider this your triple dose of MMO industry news for the day so that you can be the talk of the water cooler tomorrow.
Activision...
Virtual reality helps push mobile gaming to new heights
Due to the rise of virtual reality headsets and the support that studios are giving them, market research firm SuperData started including sales of such...
ZeniMax partially wins Oculus Rift lawsuit, awarded $500M
It may not be the $4 billion that ZeniMax was hoping for, but the studio still made out well today as a jury awarded it...
ZeniMax vs. Facebook trial wraps up as damages sought balloon to $4B
The high-profile legal battle between ZeniMax and Facebook over alleged intellectual theft involving the Oculus Rift VR headset has entered a new stage, as...
Fox creates virtual and augmented reality games studio
Emerging from the efforts of Fox Innovation Lab, a new games studio called FoxNext has arisen.
Fox announced the new studio this week, saying that...
Palmer Luckey took the stand in the ZeniMax/Oculus lawsuit
The lawsuit between Oculus and ZeniMax Studios is a complex one, but you knew that the person behind the genesis of Oculus and the...
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg will testify in ZeniMax VR trial today
The stakes are high -- $2 billion dollars high -- for the outcome of the ongoing ZeniMax vs. Facebook trial, in which the former...
Snail Games explains the origins of Ark Park
Saying that the team is "completely obsessed" with virtual reality, Snail Games wrote a short manifesto explaining the origin and purpose of Ark Park.
This spin-off...
Perfect Ten: Mobile MMOs coming in 2017
This past year, we couldn't seem to go a week without bumping into news of some new mobile MMO or a tablet spin-off of...
The $2B ZeniMax Oculus Rift trial begins
Virtual reality headsets may be but babies on the gaming scene, but already one of them has landed in hot legal water. This week,...
The New York Times declares it’s ‘time for a reality check for virtual reality’
It's been a pile-on kind of season. First Superdata called VR the "biggest loser" of the Christmas holiday buying rush, and now The New York Times...
Recapping MMORPG science in 2016
You guys may not have consciously noticed it, but we've been working harder and harder on our science-related articles in the past couple of...
Digital game sales took off in 2016
Don't look now, but we're putting the cap on "the biggest year in digital games and playable media ever," according to SuperData Research.
Thanks to...
