A PWE studio known primarily for Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Champions Online.
cryptic studios
Neverwinter is changing its vote-to-kick system
The upside of having a system to vote-kick players in Neverwinter is that abusive players can be identified and removed from a run before...
Neverwinter posts the official gameplay trailer for Strongholds
A guild's home is its castle in Neverwinter. Wait, scratch that - it's not its castle yet, but it will totally be its castle...
Star Trek Online launches Season 10.5
Players in Star Trek Online are still knee-deep in the war against the Iconians, and the latest patch for the game highlights how the...
Neverwinter: Strongholds will launch August 11th
For the past two months, Neverwinter has been all about the next major patch, which will give players the ability to band together, take...
Star Trek Online starts selling puppy lockboxes
Quick, someone call the animal humane society because Star Trek Online is cramming innocent puppies into airtight boxes!
This puppy abuse is part of STO's...
Star Trek Online releasing Broken Circle featured episode this Thursday
It's time for Star Trek Online captains to take the fight to the Iconians. The game has been building up to an epic confrontation...
Hearthstone drops more possible Argent Tournament clues
Oh Hearthstone, you tease you! After delivering an announcement about an upcoming announcement, Blizzard posted a cryptic short story on the game's website that...
The Game Archaeologist: The Sims Online
The Sims Online was one of the odder entrants into the MMO genre, an online iteration of an immensely popular game franchise that promised...
Blade & Soul’s chi and pet systems teased
Want to know even more about Blade & Soul's Chi? There's a new update on the fantasy title's website that offers a few cryptic...
Neverwinter’s Summer Festival returns
In the mood for some summer fun that doesn't actually involve leaving the house to go participate in any summer fun? Why not just...
Neverwinter’s guild keeps will require blood, sweat, and gears
Cryptic is incredibly excited about Neverwinter's upcoming guild housing if the studio's barrage of strongholds dev diaries is any indication.
Strongholds won't just be given to...
Star Trek Online details its upcoming fleet armadas
The latest Star Trek Online dev blog talks up the sci-fi MMO's forthcoming fleet armada system. Lead programmer Daniel Razza says that the improvements...
How Neverwinter designs the critters that wreck you
Neverwinter has an advantage in terms of enemy design, since years of Dungeons & Dragons have given it huge amounts of material to work...
Trion welcomes action-RPG Devilian into its fold
After a cryptic teaser site posted last week, Trion Worlds is finally ready to make its big announcement: The studio will be publishing Korean...
Neverwinter’s Rise of Tiamat now available on Xbox One
The downside to playing Neverwinter on a console is that there's a bit of a lag time on all the various major updates to the...
Fleet veteran heavy destroyers coming to Star Trek Online
Star Trek Online lead systems designer Phil Zeleski has penned a new dev blog concerning fleet veteran heavy destroyers. These tier six vessels will...
Star Trek Online shows off upcoming Tier 6 Battlecruisers
You can upgrade older ships in Star Trek Online, but your upgraded Tier 5 Battlecruiser just isn't the same as a Tier 6 version...
Neverwinter demos its biggest map ever
The more things you want going on in a single map, the bigger the map needs to be. If all you want is for...
One Shots: Primitive GPS
There's no shame in being lost, especially if your MMO doesn't include an on-screen map. Anyone remember the olden days of using graph paper...
The Game Archaeologist: Seven MMOs operating on borrowed time
Most everyone who knows me well will acknowledge that I'm not generally a cynical, dark person. I'm not rooting for games to fail, for...
