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Not So Massively: Star Citizen’s map is amazing (October 12, 2015)
Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really fit into the MMO category. Join me each week for Not So...
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CS:GO grey hat hacker tricks thousands of cheaters into bans
Tired of cheaters in your online games? One Counter Strike: Global Offensive player took justice into his own hands. Redditor AndroidL says he released fake hacks into the wild, hoping to entrap...
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Valve pours millions of dollars into Counter-Strike e-sports
There’s no doubt that e-sports are starting to get very big, with many of the top tournaments now supporting prize pools in the range of millions of dollars. Valve currently holds the record for the...
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Valve sued for enabling e-sports gambling with skins
According to report at Polygon this week, Valve is being sued by a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player for allegedly knowingly allowing and sponsoring illegal gambling thanks apparently to Steam’s...
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Steam temporarily blacklists Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gambling site
A Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gambling site was the center of a controversy this past weekend when Steam temporarily blacklisted the link on its platform. CSGO Lotto, a site where players gamble...
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The MOP Up: Planet of Heroes comes into orbit (July 24, 2016)
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 of it gets backlogged. That’s why there’s The MOP Up: a...
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The Daily Grind: Should MMORPG lockbox mechanics be regulated as gambling?
A reader named Paul recently wrote to us wondering why RNG lockboxes aren’t considered gambling. Oh sure, we call them gambleboxes, but the government — at least here in the U.S. — doesn’t. But should...
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The MOP Up: Batman invites you to his gala (September 18, 2016)
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 of it gets backlogged. That’s why there’s The MOP Up: a...
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UK courts prosecute first-ever case involving online video game gambling
A British court case have arisen recently concerning gambling and online gaming that could set precedents for such future activities. In the UK, two men have been charged under the Gambling Act with...
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Valve ordered to ‘stop facilitating gambling’ by regulatory body; CS:GO...
The Washington State Gambling Commission is cracking down on CS:GO skin gambling and ordering Valve to “stop facilitating gambling” and “immediately stop allowing the transfer of virtual weapons known...
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The MOP Up: A marriage forged in hell (January 8, 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 of it gets backlogged. That’s why there’s The MOP Up: a...
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The MOP Up: Overwatch gives smurfing a pass (April 16, 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 of it gets backlogged. That’s why there’s The MOP Up: a...
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Superdata report shows Overwatch slipping, Hearthstone rebounding
Looking back at March’s digital sales, the industry was up 15% year-over-year from 2016, Superdata Research reports. Mobile was the largest area of growth, while PC revenues remained “relatively...
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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 of it gets backlogged. That’s why there’s The MOP Up: a...
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Transgender gamers face crass rejection by CS:GO tournament organizers [Updated]
Think politics and science aren’t intertwined with gaming? Tell that to Italian e-sports gamer Sly Buehl Rigilio, whose team’s application to the ESL’s CS:GO 5on5 Female Open Summer 2017 in Munich was...
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SuperData June 2017: ROBLOX, GTAV, and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds are...
SuperData’s global digital games revenue summary for June 2017 is out, and it’s a strange melange of huge shifts and no changes at all. On the PC front, there’s been movement at the bottom of the...
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FTC settles CS:GO Lotto influencer corruption complaint
It’s not enough for the CS:GO community to bleed players to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds; nope, this week it’s taking another blow in the form of legal action against CS:GO YouTubers and profiteers....
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive community rocked by death threat controversy
Here is a lesson that we should all take to heart: Smack talk is one thing, actual death threats are entirely another. The Counter-Strike: Global Offensive scene is still dealing with the fallout of a...
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The MOP Up: Overwatch rings in the Lunar New Year (February 4, 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 of it gets backlogged. That’s why there’s The MOP Up: a...
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CSGO players petition Valve to revert strict skin trading rules
Readers of Massively OP will recall that over the past few years, skin trading in games like CSGO have made international headlines when the FTC raided skin traders for facilitating gambling and...
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Valve turns off lootboxes in the Netherlands for DOTA 2 and CounterStrike:...
If you were in any way hoping that the Dutch Gaming Authority’s ruling about lockboxes would lead to a worldwide shift, it seems that’s not quite what’s happening. Valve was one of the companies told...
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Belgium begins criminal investigation into EA’s noncompliance with gambling...
Activision-Blizzard and Valve may have cooperated with European nations’ lockbox demands, but apparently EA won’t be playing ball. You’ll recall that at the end of last year, Belgium’s and The...
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is now free-to-play with a new battle royale...
Gosh, the mighty have fallen when it comes to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The game isn’t hemorrhaging players like certain other titles, but it does appear to be bleeding pretty notably. How can...
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is now being review-bombed on Steam
We all know how Valve (owner of Steam) hates moderating things, right? Especially down to more or less fighting review bombing simply by telling people to look at the histogram feature while otherwise...
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The MOP Up: Conan Exiles pops its god bubbles
Bubbles. They are marvelous things that thrill children, turn gum into an art form, and apparently ward off evil barbarians from being naughty. Of course the danger of bubbles is that every so often…...
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Gamer involved in CSGO swatting murder gets 15 months in prison and a...
This past August, we followed up on efforts in Wichita, Kansas, to stop swatting after one such CSGO-related “prank” saw 28-year-old Andrew Finch killed by police in 2017. At the time of that writing,...
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CS:GO stops letting players sell container keys due to their use in money...
The otherwise innocuous activity of selling keys to open containers in CS:GO has apparently been used for far more nefarious purposes. According to a post on the game’s website, the sale of these keys...
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A teenage CS:GO player has developed an AI that has successfully found 14,000...
While cheaters may never prosper, they also have a tendency to proliferate if not kept in check (and even sometimes when companies do try to keep them in check). One player of Counter-Strike: Global...
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Riot Games’ multiplayer FPS Valorant is officially unveiled with new screens,...
Looks like the cat has been officially released from the bag. Valorant, the CSGO-like multiplayer FPS that was hitherto known as Project A, has been officially unveiled with some new details shared by...
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CSGO esports set a new online viewership record thanks to quarantine
While the final competition of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2020 didn’t exactly draw a huge physical crowd owing to a coronavirus quarantine, it did reportedly set...
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Counterstrike: Global Offensive players in Australia get a year-long ban for...
It turns out that professional athletes placing bets on their own performances in games is generally frowned upon in most sports. This is true in competitive gaming as well. Counterstrike: Global...
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2016 lawsuit over CS:GO skin gambling gets thrown out on a technicality
The slow, grinding gears of the legal system has finally yielded a verdict in the last of a series of CS:GO lawsuits from 2016. Valve was being sued by parents who alleged the company knowingly...
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Video report highlights CS:GO’s ongoing skin gambling problems and Valve’s...
It’s been a long reported fact that Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has a skin gambling problem. The height of this issue was back in 2016, when Valve issued a statement against the practice and...
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A Counter-Strike player shelled out six figures for an AK-47 skin because it...
The worth of digital items can very often be attributed to personal preference no matter how much crypto-hawking gremlins would like you to believe otherwise. However, the skin trade of Counter-Strike:...
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Steam’s automodding of Counter-Strike skin-selling bots is catching...
Welcome back to another episode of We Don’t Need to Fear the Singularity Because the People Writing AI Are Too Stupid for That to Happen. Today, we focus in on Steam, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive...
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For Science: Research study identifies money laundering patterns in the Steam...
Gamers are probably not going to be surprised about some recent research findings that conclude secondary marketplaces in gaming can be used for money laundering. They may be even less surprised when...
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