A PWE studio known primarily for Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Champions Online.
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Star Trek Online’s Risa vacaycay pays out in a T6 ship and a tsunami gun
Forget voyaging to strange new worlds and investigating that pesky anomaly in the next sector -- you're going to want to engage at maximum...
The Stream Team: Making merry with Neverwinter Mindflayers
Massively OP's MJ is partying with the Mindflayers of Neverwinter's Underdark. And by partying, she means slaughtering them all (except for her personal minion,...
Neverwinter answers player questions about endgame, character builds, and more in an AMA
Neverwinter's plans to squish the level cap from 80 to 20 likely raised a lot of questions in the minds of fans (in spite...
Star Trek Online showcases two new ships in a livestream and sees its latest PC patch eat up character slots (again)
Star Trek Online held another Ten Forward Weekly livestream yesterday that had a couple of announcements to share with players. First, the stream confirmed...
Vague Patch Notes: Bugs are hard in MMOs
So apparently it's been pretty hard to play Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis. I don't know from personal experience (fool me once, shame...
Interview: Neverwinter’s lead designer on the level squish and why the new cap will (probably) be 20 forever
Neverwinter is about to embark on a major retooling of its entire leveling curve, resetting level 80 players to a new hard cap of...
The Stream Team: Concluding Star Trek Online’s Klingon Civil War
Star Trek Online's year-long Klingon Civil War story arc is now concluding with the final chapter, House Reunited. After the twist and turns that...
Neverwinter prepares for the eighth Protector’s Jubilee starting on June 17
The eponymous city in Neverwinter has some problems. Literally, the place is an adventure magnet, and that means it's constantly besieged by monsters, demons,...
The MOP Up: Guild Wars 2 organizes new player tips thread
If you're getting into Guild Wars 2 for the first time or can actually admit that you don't know everything about the game, there's...
MOP’s quick and dirty guide to finding the perfect MMORPG for your tastes
Probably one of the most commonly asked questions both here on Massively OP and in various MMORPG discussions everywhere else too is simply, "What...
Neverwinter devs explain why they’re squishing the whole game down to level 20
Neverwinter's release and announcement cadence the past few weeks has been confusing, to say the least. Now that the last chunk of Sharandar is...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMO prisons where you can do the time of your life
Chillin' in the clink. Spending time in stony lonesome. Thrown into the slammer. Checking in to the big house. Doing (perfect) 10 to life...
Magic Legends removes the caps on weekly mana and echo acquisition
Still getting a handle on Magic Legends? You're going to need to be quicker on the uptake, Planeswalker, because Cryptic just made a significant...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 325: The bards sing of Palia
Justin, Carlo, and Bree discuss Elyon, Swords of Legends Online, WoW Classic Burning Crusade, Elder Scrolls Online Blackwood, Aion Classic, Crowfall, Trove, Neverwinter, and Palia, with a mailbag topic on spiritual successors and Guild Wars vs. Guild Wars 2.
Neverwinter’s Odious Court, the last chunk of the Sharandar plotline, is live today
It's finally patch day for Neverwinter: The Odious Court, the third and final episode of the game's Sharandar arc, is launching today across multiple...
Neverwinter’s new Bard is accompanied by a massive level squish from 80 to 20
Earlier this week, Neverwinter announced that it was working on a brand-new class, its first since 2016: the Bard, described as a "stylish fighter...
Enter to win a Star Trek Online Klothos and Klingon Personnel Package key and Bat’leth No Touch Tool
Star Trek Online fans are surely busy with their captains in the game's House United patch that just rolled out last week. But maybe...
Neverwinter’s first new class since 2016 is the Bard, and it hits the test server tomorrow
Trove isn't the only MMORPG showing off its new Bard class this week: Apparently, Neverwinter's got one on deck too. According to IGN, the...
Champions Online holds a player Q&A session about serials, archery, and more
It's been a relatively busy period over in the world of Champions Online, with the game's first serial story, revamps to the archery powerset,...
One Shots: A blast from the past
As a kid who grew up on the original series of Star Trek, the nostalgia is strong with this opening screenshot here from Star...
