A PWE studio known primarily for Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Champions Online.
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Perfect Ten: MMOs where you travel back in time for some reason
We're all time travelers! We travel to the future at the rate of one second per second. Every single machine you will ever operate...
Massively Overthinking: If you lost your account in your main MMORPG, would you start over?
The other day, MOP's Justin came into our work chat understandably nervous because he couldn't log into his Lord of the Rings Online account;...
The Stream Team: Star Trek Online’s Unparalleled and space cockroaches
It's all about the Borg, baby! No, not Borg babies (though they might still be cute!). Borg are just everywhere. They are really space...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 471: A Gold Road to the promised Tarisland
Justin and Bree discuss Tarisland, Elder Scrolls Online's Gold Road, Corepunk's alpha, WoW Classic Cataclysm, SWTOR, and Star Trek Online, with adventures in WoW, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on industry jargon, IGN's buying spree, and Embracer.
Co-op RPG Baldur’s Gate 3 readies official modding support for this fall
For a select slice of the Baldur's Gate 3 community, this fall's Patch 7 will be the update they've been waiting for since the...
The MOP Up: My Time at Sandrock will make you a proper Monster Whisperer
To start off our small news roundup this weekend, let's head over to co-op farm sim My Time at Sandrock, where the devs talked about...
Vague Patch Notes: Why do so many MMOs fail?
We talk a lot about MMOs that fail here on Massively Overpowered. I wrote a whole column about how our standards of success are...
Enter to win a Star Trek Online Cross Faction Heavy Strike Wing Escort Bundle in our Unparalleled giveaway
In celebration of Star Trek Online's PC launch of Season 32: Unparalleled, Cryptic has kindly granted us gift codes to raffle to our readers!...
Star Trek Online’s Unparalleled is live on PC today, helmed by Denise Crosby
It's update day for Star Trek Online fans as the iconic sci-fi MMORPG releases Unparalleled for PC, and accordingly we are never allowed to...
Star Trek Online’s June event lets you earn a free T6 starship
If you've played Star Trek Online to any moderate or serious extent, you know that having a Tier 6 starship is a "must have"...
Here’s how Star Trek Online’s new gender- and species-swap token will work
Star Trek Online's Unparalleled update isn't just about new story content and missions: It's also packing a major quality-of-life feature in the form of...
Perfect Ten: My top 10 favorite MMOs across two decades
Normally in these Perfect Ten lists, I'm very outward-facing. I like to create lists that are as helpful or amusing as possible for others...
Star Trek Online preps an ‘endless’ Borg gauntlet for next week’s episode
Antsy starship captains are about to have their hands very full when next week's Unparalleled episode drops into their waiting hands in Star Trek...
The MOP Up: Stardew Valley’s creator can’t quit tinkering with the game
Stardew Valley's creator recently sat down for an interview in which he said, “Once I reopen the book on Stardew, I always have a...
Star Trek Online announces Season 32 Unparalleled, starring Denise Crosby, for May 28
It's been a couple of months now, but if you can remember the Cryptic dev stream back in March, you'll recall that the studio...
Perfect Ten: 10 favorite features that pairs of popular MMOs share
Even though all MMORPGs compete for our time, affection, and -- above all else -- money, it doesn't mean that they can't get along....
Neverwinter makes tweaks to regions, companions, and items in latest patch
The latest patch for Neverwinter is another of those little ones that mostly focuses on tweaks and fixes, but considering it reaches across a...
Into the Super-Verse: A toast to City of Heroes’ 20th birthday
How does you mark your first true MMO experience? Anarchy Online technically was the first MMO I ever played, although I was on dial-up,...
City of Heroes Rebirth teases its fall issue on the MMO’s 20th anniversary
The celebratory notes are sounding loud and clear for the late, great, and still present City of Heroes as the MMO marks the 20th...
Perfect Ten: Great MMO April Fools’ Day pranks from back in the day
There are two types of people on April 1st: those who are annoyed and indifferent to the tomfoolery going on all around them, and...
