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Everyone knows that Cryptic's business models for its MMOs have been both loved and loathed by many, so we should expect that same community...

One of the things I have always admired about Star Trek Online is the fact that its writers know how to take a premise...

It's a big day for Cryptic Studios as the company is celebrating two decades in the industry, releasing Avernus for Neverwinter, and dropping House...

Today is not yet a good day to die... but that day is coming soon, as the Year of Klingons approaches in Star Trek...

Too much predictability breeds contempt and boredom in MMOs, which Cryptic knows all too well. In its creation of the upcoming Magic Legends, the...

The Blood War is raging in Neverwinter, but that in and of itself isn't particularly noteworthy. The whole thing about the Blood War is...

OK, for today's topic, we're going to be limiting ourselves strictly to scifi MMORPGs (sorry fantasy, you'll have to settle for pretty much 95%...

We hope that you hadn't earmarked long stretches of time to play the various MMOs by Cryptic Studios on Tuesday or Thursday. The team's games...

With Pre-Alpha 5 on the way, Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is generating more and more interest among MMORPG veterans. But one topic is...

Hitch up your shorts, buckle your boots, and step into another deep forest of MMORPG music with the Battle Bards! As diverse as the...

Last week's call for MMO screenshots of in-game statues resulted in so many great pictures, I could have probably done two of these columns!...

What? Neverwinter on a Saturday? It may not be the regular D&D night, but it is the MMO's seventh birthday, and that's a great...

Massively OP's MJ and her team thwarted Idris' attempt to build an undead army in Ebon Downs, but there's plenty of adventure to be...

Have developers and players grown so used to mechanics and number crunching that we've collectively lost something important along the way? That's the concern...

It's almost time once more for the Protector's Jubilee in Neverwinter as the MMO celebrates seven years of operation starting on Thursday, June 18th,...

With the Avernus module just on the horizon for Neverwinter, it's time for players to prepare. And if you're a DPS player, then your...

Despite the fact that the name makes it sound like a sharp implement destined to slide into somebody's ribs, the land of Shiv is...

MOP reader Styopa proposed this fun topic for Massively Overthinking this week, prompted, he said, by Standing Stone Games' recent promotions for Lord of...

A while back we'd speculated on whether or not Neverwinter's Avernus module would make its original June launch window, and today we learned that...

You know what's really fun? The build-up to an MMO's release, especially when you're really invested in that particular game. Some of my fondest...