A PWE studio known primarily for Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Champions Online.
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The Stream Team: Join Star Trek Online’s Risa beach party with devs and win!
You know who needs a nice vacation? Massively OP's MJ! And The ultimate vacation spot in Star Trek Online is Risa. It just so...
MassivelyOP interview: Talking ship design with Star Trek Online’s Donny Versiga
If you play Star Trek Online, you know that ship collecting is one of the major pastimes of captains all over the Federation and...
Neverwinter delays its console release of Vault of Stars: Twisted Denizens
So there's some bad news for Neverwinter fans on consoles. Yes, Vault of Stars: Twisted Denizens is still coming, but the latest tweet on...
Champions Online kicks off a limited-time event that grants goodies for hitting max level
How quickly do you think you can hit the level cap in Champions Online? Do you think you can do it in a couple...
Neverwinter gives a quick rundown of the changes coming to professions with its level squish
With the arrival of Neverwinter's level squish with the Jewel of the North update on July 27th, players are going to have to deal...
No, Cryptic isn’t giving Magic Legends refugees 7K Zen – but here’s what you *are* getting
Cryptic giveth and Cryptic taketh away: PWE and Cryptic sent 'round an email to some Magic Legends players today night, a "thank-you gift" for...
Neverwinter’s Bard class and level-squish arrive to PC in Jewel of the North on July 27
Neverwinter players have known for a while now that PWE has been working on a bard class and the new leveling system, but today,...
Magic Legends introduces three-color deck features and ramps up currency earnings
Even though Magic Legends is shuttering, the devs at Cryptic are still apparently going to try new things with the ARPG. For instance, the...
Neverwinter’s Sharandar trilogy is now complete on console with the launch of the Odious Court
A month after dropping on PC, Neverwinter's Odious Court, the third and final episode's of the Sharandar arc, is finally live on Xbox One...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 329: Sith happens
Justin and Eliot discuss Magic Legends and the Cryptic layoffs, SWTOR's Legacy of the Sith, Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons delay, with adventures in FFXIV and WoW Classic, plus a mailbag topic on FFXIV as the potential WoW killer.
Not So Massively: Magic Legends had all the right ideas and all the wrong choices
This is the worst kind of column to write. Not only am I reporting on the closure of a game, but it's a game...
Magic Legends turns off microtransaction costs ahead of its October sunset
If you were hopping that the announcement of Magic Legends shutting down this October was some sort of sick joke, we're sorry to inform...
Champions Online gets patriotic while Star Trek Online gets a sale for the 4th of July
The benefit of a game like Champions Online taking place in a setting roughly analogous to the real worlds is that unlike in Neverwinter,...
The Magic Legends layoffs at Cryptic hit a lot more people than we thought
Following yesterday's awful news that PWE and Cryptic were canceling and sunsetting Magic Legends even before it had ever left beta or landed on...
The Daily Grind: Are there any actually good MMO summer festivals?
I think we all know that MMO developers save their top-tier festival material for the one-two punch of Halloween and Christmas. And while that...
Magic Legends taps out: PWE and Cryptic are shutting it down before it even fully launched
Bad news for fans of Magic Legends: PWE and Cryptic announced this afternoon that they're sunsetting the game in October. Steve Ricossa broke the...
The Daily Grind: What’s the grindiest MMORPG still alive in 2021?
On last week's podcast, I joked that Albion Online's grind is deceptively short because once you get to what appears to be the outer...
Neverwinter kicks off the Celebration of Llirra just in time for the Fourth of July
Neverwinter might just be the first MMO out of the gate this year with a fireworks-laden Fourth-of-July-inspired event, though of course Perfect World calls...
The MOP Up: Ultima Online welcomes Treasures of Wildfire
A new event has arrived on Ultima Online's Origin server, bringing with it story and collections galore. Hey, it's something new to do during...
Neverwinter’s upcoming Adventure system promises a streamlined questing experience
Some of the biggest bullet points of Neverwinter's Module 21 update are obviously the new Bard class and the major level squish, but there's...
