cryptic studios

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

Massively Uplifting: Love and generosity in Sea of Thieves, Guild Wars 2, SOTA, and more

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February is often known as the commercialized month of love (Happy Hallmark Day!), but that doesn't mean there wasn't genuine love abounding throughout the...

Star Trek Online fans agitate to bring Leonard Nimoy-voiced missions back to the game

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Leonard Nimoy's contribution to the Star Trek fandom cannot possibly be overstated, so bearing that in mind, it makes sense that fans of Star...
Keeping it up

Magic Legends introduces you to a trio of key characters

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Magic the Gathering fans are no strangers to the colorful characters and personalities that they've encountered through card descriptions. Cryptic is looking to carry...
Symbolic.

Magic Legends will reward you for playing its March beta

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Not trusting solely to the allure of curiosity to rope potential testers into playing Magic Legends' March 23rd open beta, Cryptic Studio is outright...

The Stream Team: There will be fire in the mountain when she streams Neverwinter

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There will be fire in the mountain when she streams. (When she streams!) There will be fire in the mountain when she streams. (When she...

The Steam Team: Outfitting a T6 ship in Star Trek Online

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In all her years of playing, Massively OP's MJ has never selected and outfitted a T6 ship in Star Trek Online. Unfortunately, no matter...
A journey into complexity.

Perfect Ten: MMOs of the ‘internet spaceships’ genre

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It's at once the most important and most underserved genre in MMOs, aside from gigantic robots - it's the valuable genre of internet spaceships. They're...

Enter to win a Neverwinter Sharandar art poster and Pack of the Sprite key for PC courtesy of PWE and MOP!

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Now that Neverwinter's Sharandar: The Iron Tooth has finally released into the wild for PC players, PWE has kindly granted Massively OP some fun...

Neverwinter pushes back the console release of Sharandar to March 16

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If you were among the console players of Neverwinter eager to get your character's feet into all sorts of Feywild trouble, we've got some...

Neverwinter offers a preview of the upcoming Vault of Stars dungeon

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Just one time, just one time, I'd like to open up a vault in an MMORPG and be greeted with gobs of riches or...
I didn't say zorp.

Magic Legends’ loadouts makes build swapping a breeze

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One of the fun aspects of collectable card games like Magic: The Gathering is constantly experimenting with different decks and configurations to see if...

Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs to get you out of your gaming rut

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We have all been there. You've been gaming in your standard comfort MMOs when one day you hit that wall of burnout. You feel...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 309: You can take my loot over my dead body

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Justin and Bree discuss Valheim, Elite Dangerous' slave cult, BlizzConline, Hearthstone, WoW's valor, Neverwinter Nights Arelith, Phantasy Star Online 2, Black Desert, and Shadowbane, with adventures in LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, SWG Legends, and Farm Together, with mailbag topics on full-loot open world PvP and brute-forcing unpopular gameplay design.

Neverwinter’s Sharandar: The Iron Tooth is live on PC today

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After a week's delay and a combat overhaul that set the playerbase ablaze, Perfect World has finally unleashed Neverwinter's next big thing: Sharandar. As...

One Shots: Outer space needs an attitude readjustment

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In retrospect, outer space was asking for it. It was giving all of us a cold shoulder, being very distant, and lording its size...
Champtastic.

Lunar New Year sales and events arrive to Steam, Champions Online, and gobs more

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It's lovely seeing the Lunar New Year holiday continue to rise in prominence in the west - and especially in online video games. And...
Deception!

Magic Legends casts hype spell for next month’s open beta

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Things are starting to move faster and faster over at Magic Legends, as Cryptic's upcoming multiplayer title will conjure up an open beta next...

The Stream Team: Drow, Driders, and other creepy crawlies in Neverwinter

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After venturing to the edge of the Underdark and back in Neverwinter (and slaying a drider prince), Massively OP's MJ and her D&D night...
Ox in, free.

Neverwinter celebrates the Year of the Ox

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It's time for the Year of the Ox in Neverwinter starting today, and if you've long been waiting for ox content in the game, you...

The Stream Team: A Leap of Faith in Star Trek Online’s House Reborn

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Last week for Star Trek Online's anniversary, Massively OP's MJ started the new House Reborn adventures by playing J'Ula. She learned of a fiery...

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