A PWE studio known primarily for Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Champions Online.
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DC Universe Online’s new leadership teases new content format and event system in 2025
We don't know whether anyone but us has noticed this, but Daybreak is having one hell of a week with content or announcements for...
Choose My Adventure: Starting life as a Jem’Hadar in Star Trek Online
So, first thing's first: I wasn't really able to spend excessive time in Star Trek Online this weekend. It was not just a holiday...
Star Trek Online rings in the holidays with the return of Q’s Winter Wonderland
It's Christmastime in the final frontier yet again! That's because Star Trek Online has reopened the Q's Winter Wonderland event zone with returning events...
PSA: Star Trek Online gives away free T6 battlecruiser and outfits for a limited time
It's absolutely not every day that Star Trek Online hands out its highest tier starships for free, but that's exactly what's happening in the...
Choose My Adventure: Red Dead Online is a multiplayer buried treasure
There's nothing quite as bad in gaming as wasted potential. There are no shortage of MMOs, MMORPGs, and multiplayer games that reached for the...
One Shots: The eternal rambler
Sometimes don't you wish that your character had a "out with it" emote that would make NPCs cut down on their rambling speeches and...
Neverwinter 30th module, Return to Pirates’ Skyhold, is live on PC and console today
As promised and foretold by publisher Arc Games, Neverwinter's 30th module ever is officially live on PC and console simultaneously today. The module, with...
Neverwinter unvaults Dread Sanctum dungeon November 19 and reruns the Harvester of Nightmares event
When Neverwinter announced its Return to Pirates' Skyhold module release, one of the features it talked up was the return of the Dread Vault...
MMO Business Roundup: Embracer Q2 2024, Steam toxicity, and GOG’s game preservation program
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business!
Embracer
Embracer - the failson megacorp we keep an eye on because...
Massively Overthinking: What are the great ‘popcorn games’ in the MMORPG genre?
MOP reader Elenie recently put the concept of "popcorn MMOs" back on my radar thanks to a comment about Neverwinter being an MMO many...
Star Trek Online launches the Dimensional Typhoon event for console and The Feast event for PC
It's event week in both PC and console editions of Star Trek Online apparently, as the latest patch for the MMORPG has added a...
EG7 Q3 2024: EverQuest, LOTRO, and Palia gave Daybreak its best quarter all year
The quarterly financials avalanche continues this week with Enad Global 7, better known to MMORPG fans as the company that bought Daybreak and then...
Neverwinter’s 30th module – Return to Pirates’ Skyhold – launches November 19
Given all the layoffs at Cryptic this fall as its MMORPGs transition to Deca Games, you might be wondering what's next for said MMORPGs....
Vague Patch Notes: Living like a rock in MMORPGs
So if you are anything close to my age, you probably do not think of Simon & Garfunkel's music as being anything remotely "raw."...
Star Trek Online is bringing its Borg multiverse event to Xbox and PlayStation next week
It's not Star Trek if you're not milking the popularity of the Borg for all its worth -- a lesson that Star Trek Online...
Lord of the Rings Online releases its 10th expansion, Legacy of Morgoth, this afternoon
Fasten your cloak and pack a fresh batch of lembas bread, for Lord of the Rings Online is calling all of its high-level adventurers...
One Shots: A sticky situation, indeed
While I am a general fan of honey, the fact that this is a dessert guarded by hundreds of bees does turn my attention...
Neverwinter tests Module 30’s Unvaulted zone and dungeon
Neverwinter wasn't just flinging smoke and mirrors your way when its team said that development was continuing on the Dungeons & Dragons MMO in...
Neverwinter reassures fans after layoffs: ‘We are still fully committed to the ongoing development’
No matter how you look at it, this is a devastating time for Cryptic fans as mass layoffs are effectively dissolving the once-prominent MMO...
Star Trek Online gets into the Halloween spirit with space witches
Putting aside the valid fears of mass studio layoffs for the simulated fears the final frontier, Star Trek Online players are invited to indulge...
