cryptic studios

A PWE studio known primarily for Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Champions Online.

Star Trek Online starts selling puppy lockboxes

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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

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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

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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

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The Sims Online was one of the odder entrants into the MMO genre, an online iteration of an immensely popular game franchise that promised...
Counted.

Blade & Soul’s chi and pet systems teased

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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...
It's not particularly cruel.

Neverwinter’s Summer Festival returns

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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

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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

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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...
Like a dragon, but, like... a danger dragon.

How Neverwinter designs the critters that wreck you

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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

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After a cryptic teaser site posted last week, Trion Worlds is finally ready to make its big announcement: The studio will be publishing Korean...
It's just heads all the way down.

Neverwinter’s Rise of Tiamat now available on Xbox One

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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

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Star Trek Online lead systems designer Phil Zeleski has penned a new dev blog concerning fleet veteran heavy destroyers. These tier six vessels will...
You can also play a spaceship.

Star Trek Online shows off upcoming Tier 6 Battlecruisers

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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...
That map is big? Yeah, yeah, yeah! It's not small? No, no, no!

Neverwinter demos its biggest map ever

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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

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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

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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...

Star Trek Online’s newest feature episode is live

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Star Trek Online's newest feature episode awaits, according to an official tweet this morning that signified the end of the patch maintenance period. Cryptic...
I TRUSTED YOU

Perfect Ten: MMO terms that have overstayed their welcome

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My original plan for this week - during the few moments that I was capable of coherent speech rather than just babbling about the...

Protector’s Jubilee begins in all versions of Neverwinter

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Protector's Jubilee starts anew in Neverwinter today to celebrate the game's two-year anniversary. The returning festival gives players new quests and skirmishes to conquer...

The latest Neverwinter dev blog talks a tiny bit about strongholds

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Cryptic has published a new dev blog that touches on Neverwinter's upcoming strongholds feature. It's designed to provide content for guilds, and much of the...

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