A PWE studio known primarily for Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Champions Online.
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Blue Protocol travels through time and space to bring you a new anime MMO
Here's a fun surprise for those who need something those not into Naga and Viera this week: a brand-new MMORPG announcement from Bandai Namco.
The...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 226: On the cusp of FFXIV’s Shadowbringers
Eliot, Justin, and Bree discuss Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers, Harry Potter Wizards Unite, WoW Rise of Azshara, SWTOR, Camelot Unchained, and Champions Online, with a mailbag question on XIV's endgame.
Star Trek Online rescinds plan to use controversial audio emote in summer festival
A brief kerfuffle over an emote planned for Star Trek Online's Risian Lohlunat Festival has already come to an end. As players on Reddit...
Star Trek Online’s Rise of Discovery makes its way to console players today
Like clockwork, the expansion cadence for Star Trek Online has once more brought all of the goodies that PC players have been experiencing for...
Star Trek Online brings back the Risian Lohlunat Festival for 2019
Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Party Bus, and we're on our way to the Lohlunat Festival for a...
Champions Online announces new ‘serialized story’ content
Back in early June, a certain nameless MOP author wrote a column that speculated on why Champions Online didn't do better -- and what...
One Shots: The gloaming hour
Are you a morning person or do you come alive in the evening? Depending on the day/night cycle of an MMORPG, you may in...
Star Trek Online’s Discovery Enterprise lockbox has captains in an uproar
It stands to reason that in a game called Star Trek Online, the most desirable starships of them all will be any that have...
Neverwinter’s Undermountain is live on console today as Waterdeep preps the Protector’s Jubilee
Dungeon delvers, prepare to descend: Neverwinter's massive Undermountain expansion goes live on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles today, bringing with it the eponymous...
Star Trek Online considers ‘the account as the player’
There's a hot phrase bouncing around the Star Trek Online community these days, and that is "the account as the player." This comes from...
Into the Super-verse: Why didn’t Champions Online do better?
A while back I was flipping through the backlog of my personal gaming blog, looking at the history of my gaming trends, particularly in...
Star Trek Online promises next year’s story arc will ‘change the face of the game’
What will next year bring for Star Trek Online? We don't know just yet, but according to a recent interview with lead designer Al Rivera...
Star Trek Online brings back Operation Riposte, the Crystalline Entity, and lets you earn a free T6 ship
Whether you like firing your lasers at a malevolent crystal snowflake or liberating a planet from Klingon oppressors, the most recent patch to Star...
Neverwinter’s newest patch adjusts scaling and enemy health
Everything you fight in Neverwinter is going to feel a little bit weaker after today's patch. For starters, the game has reduced enemy health across...
The MOP Up: China’s getting Fallout Shelter Online, and that’s not fair
For my money (and time), the best Fallout game of the past five years has been Fallout Shelter, a mobile base builder which has...
Perfect Ten: 10 things I’d love to see added to City of Heroes in the rogue server era
When will the staff here stop talking about City of Heroes? Now that there's actually something to talk about regarding it, probably never. Look, you all...
The MOP Up: Conan Exiles pops its god bubbles
Bubbles. They are marvelous things that thrill children, turn gum into an art form, and apparently ward off evil barbarians from being naughty. Of...
Star Trek Online is dropping 32-bit support in July
Time marches on, and it seems only appropriate that you cannot spend your time playing a futurist-looking science fiction series like Star Trek Online on...
Perfect Ten: Helpful tips for returning to City of Heroes in 2019
With the (community-led) rebirth of City of Heroes in 2019, a rather interesting problem has arisen for this superhero title: Namely, players who never...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 221: Classic Warcraft flavor
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Classic, City of Heroes, Blade and Soul, Star Trek Online, Square Enix, and Dungeon and Dragons Online, with mailbag topics on how WoW Classic fits into the MMO genre and getting back into City of Heroes.
