A PWE studio known primarily for Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Champions Online.
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Embracer Group (Gearbox/Cryptic) stock nose-dives after implosion of $2B business deal
Swedish corporation Embracer Group became a big name in the MMO industry a few years ago when it bought out Perfect World Entertainment's western...
The Stream Team: Star Trek Online comes Unraveled
It's time for Star Trek Online to come Unraveled! This newest story arc starts with the Wish Upon a Star Episode, and Massively OP's...
The Stream Team: Playing D&D in Neverwinter
Neverwinter is now metagaming itself! Day of the Dungeon Master has returned, and this event actually has Massively OP's MJ playing a tabletop game...
Jack Emmert’s NetEase-owned studio rebrands as Jackalyptic Games, teases Warhammer 40K title
The studio is named Jackalyptic Games, it's owned by Netease, and it's headed by Jack Emmert. You might think that you wouldn't want to...
Amazon has revived its Lord of the Rings MMORPG, now collaborating with Embracer
Amazon and Embracer announced this morning that they're building a new MMORPG based on The Lord of the Rings.
To understand what the heck is...
One Shots: Who left the gas stove on?
So. This is awkward. I know everyone has an excuse why you were definitely not messing around with the giant's gas stove in Blade...
Global Chat: How do you play older MMOs?
It's always a challenge -- sometimes an insurmountable one -- when you jump into older MMORPGs after being conditioned by modern experiences. To help...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 421: Beyond time and space
Justin and Bree discuss Star Trek Online Unraveled, SWTOR Old Wounds, Gamigo's move out of MMOs, Chrono Odyssey's reveal, EVE's 20th anniversary, LOTRO's new raid, and Villagers and Heroes' housing patch, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW Classic, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on WoW's wild lore.
Choose My Adventure: Adventuring in the Borderlands of Dungeons and Dragons Online
Now this place I remember. I'm pretty sure I've done this before for the site. Or have I done it in my off-time on...
Star Trek Online’s Unraveled is live for PC players with new episode and TFO
As promised, Star Trek Online's Unraveled launches today - for PC players, that is. The season picks up where Terran Gambit left off, brings...
The Stream Team: Flying for the Klingon Defense Force in Star Trek Online
Last time MOP's Chris was in Star Trek Online, he decided to roll a new-to-him Klingon character and see what the KDF and the...
The Stream Team: Saving the Helm’s Hold cathedral in Neverwinter
While trying to thwart the Black Earth Cultists' attempts to subjugate Helm's Hold in Neverwinter, Massively OP's MJ and her D&D night crew have...
The Stream Team: Star Trek Online’s rocket kitty
When you've done the Star Trek Online First Contact Day Anniversary event for many years, you've built a bunch of models of Zefram Cochrane's...
Star Trek Online previews the new TFO, Leviathan, coming with the Unraveled update
Despite the name, the new task force operation arriving in Star Trek Online with the Unraveled update does not take place underwater. The ships...
Neverwinter’s RPG-in-a-RPG event starts this Thursday
One of the most unique in-game events in the MMO genre is making a return this week: Cryptic announced that it's bringing back Neverwinter's Day...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 420: The New, Mad World of Warcraft
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2's content cadence, the Microsoft Activision-Blizzard buyout, Blizzard's messy financials, WoW's 10.1 patch, the end of forums for New World and Lost Ark, the death of a whole class in MapleStory, the messy launch of Mad World, and the surprise return of Fractured, plus adventures in LOTRO and Star Trek Online.
Star Trek Online announces Unraveled, coming to PC May 9, with new episode and TFO
This morning, Cryptic's taken the wraps off Star Trek Online's next big thing in a bit of a low-key announcement: Unraveled.
"In Star Trek Online:...
The MOP Up: Chrono Odyssey preps gameplay video, plans global release
Expect to start hearing more buzz about South Korean next-gen MMO Chrono Odyssey now that it's ramping up hype and info. Its studio told...
Neverwinter releases a patch early to the Xbox version thanks to problems with the servers
"A strange and unforeseen spell has affected the Xbox servers," reads an announcement from Neverwinter, which means that players on that console are getting...
Choose My Adventure: Endgame in Neverwinter nearly rocks my Bard’s face apart
So as that headline suggests, I made it to level 20 in Neverwinter. That's not really too surprising to regular players, I imagine -...
