cryptic studios

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

Jane's way.

Star Trek Online’s writer and art director talk about integrating the Mirror Universe with the comics canon

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Curious about how many people are playing Star Trek Online at the moment? A new Space.com interview with associate art director Thomas Marrone and writer...
SING FOR THEM

Neverwinter’s newest patch makes some major improvements to Bards

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Bards are going to rock your face off with the newest Neverwinter patch. It's going to be a non-stop rock extravaganza in the game. The class...

Massively Uplifting: How gamers are bringing humanitarian relief to Ukraine

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It was a month that started in love but ended with war: Terrible, painful things keep happening in the world and in our communities....

Neverwinter addresses Bards, public queues, and dev roadmap in Q&A livestream

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Did you miss out on the Q&A session that Neverwinter held last month? We covered that story previously, but those who are looking for...

The Daily Grind: Which MMOs are you hoping to play later this year?

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I keep telling myself, there are never enough hours in the day to do everything I want to do -- including playing all of...

Neverwinter’s ‘April Fowls’ returns with chicken raids and Poultry vs. Poultry fights

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It's April Fools season (?) in the MMO world, and for Neverwinter, that means an outbreak of frisky poultry. Yes, it's "April Fowls," a...
yesterday's priseterprise

Stick and Rudder: Revisiting 12-year-old MMO Star Trek Online

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Star Trek Online is an MMO released during the height of the “let’s grab an existing IP and make it into an MMO” craze...

The Stream Team: Seeking a quick spot of Star Trek Online

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Normally, Star Trek Online isn't something that MOP's Chris broadcasts very often, but he's been peering in and out of his favored science ship...
Pay to lose.

Perfect Ten: Conversations with anthropomorphic MMO studios IV: The Voyage Home

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I swear before whatever deities you want to name, I cannot get away from this. I've done everything I can to avoid these anthropomorphic...

Neverwinter’s latest patch brings back the Challenge of the Gods event, notes technical issues with a new lockbox

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Neverwinter has received a patch this week, which doesn't really have a whole lot going on in terms of content or even contents; there...

The Stream Team: Neverwinter’s Sloopul and the Thing in the Lake

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Having already helped cure the Kuo-Toa of Neverwinter's Twisting Caverns, Massively OP's MJ isn't going to shy away from giving more aid to these...
Tony tony tony

Into the Super-Verse: No, I do not want Daybreak’s Marvel MMO

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Greetings, true believers! This particular column is actually not the result of reader requests but specifically from our editor, who has long noted that...

Battle Bards Episode 211: Shops and services

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When the Battle Bards get loaded up with money and jewels in MMOs, they head back into town for a shopping spree! And if...

One Shots: Castle Redskull

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As with all impossible architecture in MMOs, I pause at our first picture and imagine what feats of magical engineering it took to carve...

Massively Overthinking: Does wallet-voting work in modern MMOs?

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MOP reader The Grand Nagus recently pointed us to his thread on the Star Trek Online reddit where players were trying to sort out...
This is expensive.

Star Trek Online team scrambles to address nasty console crash bug

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If Spock took a look at Star Trek Online's servers in the past 24 hours, he might say, "Crash long and expire." It's certainly...

Neverwinter’s executive producer answers questions about professions, PUG content, and the roadmap

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Neverwinter players had questions and Executive Producer Brett Norton had answers: A Q&A livestream that was live last week has now been uploaded to...
Jupiter, jupiter!

Star Trek Online previews Iuppiter Iratus TFO’s arrival to console and Intelligence Officer spec tweaks for PC

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There's some intriguing things coming to the horizon of Star Trek Online whether you're a captain on console or PC. We start with the...

The Stream Team: Touring Neverwinter’s Twisted Caverns

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Massively OP's MJ finally got to go through the portal in the catacombs of Neverwinter's Undermountain with the help of Azuli Tefnek, an interesting...
Space boats.

Star Trek Online shares a mini-documentary all about the canonization of in-game ships

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Star Trek Online is understandably extremely excited about the fact that four of the game's ships were officially canonized in the second season premiere...

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