MMO Week in Review: A console port is a blessing for Star Trek Online (May 15, 2016)

    
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One of my self-inflicted rules for our Week in Review mandates that I not feature the same game twice in a row, but I say today that Star Trek Online, which rarely gets featured at all, deserves the exception. After announcing a controversial original-series-flavored expansion pack for the sci-fi MMORPG earlier this month, PWE and Cryptic have now announced that the 2010 game will port to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One this fall, no doubt in the hopes of emulating the success of MMOs like Neverwinter, DC Universe Online, and Final Fantasy XIV. Newsflash to grumpy PC gamers: An influx of console money is a good thing for the longevity of the game. You should be cheering!

Meanwhile, Blizzard kicked off World of Warcraft’s Legion expansion beta test (really beta this time), and NCsoft’s latest financials cast a shadow over WildStar.

Read on for the very best of this week’s MMO news and opinions.

THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES
Tree of Savior has officially launched - Tree of Savior is officially free-to-play and ready to download on Steam as of today's maintenance. "This means that our DLC products will no longer be available for purchase," says…
Perfect World will publish Motiga’s MOBA Gigantic - Perfect World has just announced that it will be publishing Gigantic, Motiga's upcoming MOBA. "This partnership with Perfect World Entertainment expands the game’s reach, allowing us to support players with Win64…
How Guild Wars 2 will improve WvW scoring - The Guild Wars 2 community has been asking for improvements to scoring in the game's world-vs-world battles, and ArenaNet is moving swiftly to bring these changes to the game. In…
Empyrean is building ‘MMOs you can beat’ - Empyrean Interactive is coining a new acronym this season: PCA, which stands for persistent cooperative adventure, a "radically different" take on the MMO genre. Studio founders Geoff Virtue and Joe…
THIS WEEK’S CASTS & STREAMS
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Every week, get caught up on the MMO genre’s latest news and Massively OP’s best content in our MMO Week in Review! Want more roundups of content? Try Friday’s Betawatch for MMO testing highlights, Saturday’s Make My MMO for MMO crowdfunding updates, and Sunday’s The MOP Up, which mops up all the little bits of news we didn’t cover anywhere else.

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