A PWE studio known primarily for Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Champions Online.
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PWE officially bids farewell to the Star Trek Online and Neverwinter Foundry
While we all knew it was coming, it still doesn't make saying goodbye very easy. The Foundry -- a repository and creation tool for...
Neverwinter dev confirms Cryptic’s Magic: The Gathering MMO is still in dev in an Undermountain blog
It's been a pretty heckin' long time since we heard about the Magic: The Gathering MMO that Cryptic first announced in June of 2017....
More news from the Undermountain: Neverwinter Ranger and Wizard changes on preview server now
If it wasn't apparent by now, just about every Neverwinter class is getting some kind of overhaul. Although PerfectWorld hasn't decided to change Rangers...
Neverwinter details the creation of Vanrakdoom and the Twisted Caverns
Herein lies the great contradiction for the underground zones of Neverwinter: The designers want you to feel as if you're hopelessly lost within an endless...
Perfect Ten: MMO celebrations that didn’t rip off real-world holidays
Does it ever slightly bother you that in these alternate fantasy and science fiction worlds that we explore there just so happens to have...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 214: No fools we
Justin and Bree discus MMO April Fools' Day, Jumpgate's sequel, Funcom's new Secret World project, EverQuest 3, Rend's abrupt launch, Star Citizen's ladies, and Neverwinter and DDO's expansion dates, with adventures in Guild Wars 2, DDO, and Blade & Soul, and a mailbag question on MMO emulators.
Crypic devs totally spoil Neverwinter’s newest endgame dungeon
Neverwinter's newest expansion isn't even out, but Cryptic is totally fine spoiling the ending of the campaign for you. You know, if you're the...
April Fools’ Day 2019 has begun early in Guild Wars 2, Champions Online, and more
Happy April Fools' Day! Oh, wait, that's not how it works? And it's not actually April Fools' Day yet? Well, tell that to Gaijin...
Neverwinter announces an April 23 release date for Undermountain on PC
Week by week, Neverwinter has been kicking out dev blogs touching on the various things players can expect in the Undermountain expansion, so a...
Star Trek Online outlines its content roadmap through July
The downside of Star Trek Online's new roadmap is that it is not overburdened with elaborate details about the content that's coming to the game...
Neverwinter: Undermountain looks to make Great Weapon Fighters beefier and Rogues stabbier
As we've seen detailed over the past few weeks, Neverwinter's Undermountain expansion is bringing a lot of new things to the table, especially to...
These are some of the shinies waiting in Neverwinter’s Undermountain
When you delve in to a dungeon with the scale of Undermountain, you'd expect more than a few new rewards waiting for you. Neverwinter...
The MOP Up: Ring of Elysium gives out free adventure passes
Ever eye an adventurer or season pass in a shooter but feel too cheap to buy it? Reader Pasha tipped us off that the...
EVEsterdam 2019: EVE players intercept Triglavian war plans
The EVE Online community was surprised recently when billboards across the game were hacked and displayed a threatening video from the Triglavian Collective, a...
Neverwinter’s Undermountain campaign changes everything about your companions
If you haven't jumped into the preview for Neverwinter: Undermountain, then this dev blog is for you: PWE Lead Systems Designer Salim "Silius" Grant...
Global Chat: Parting ways with Cryptic’s Foundry
It's a sad and regrettable situation for Cryptic to be closing one of its most unique features -- and in two games, no less....
Champions Online brings in hip new armor for the Circus Malvanum race
It's hip to wear armor in Champions Online. Wait, no, that's not quite what we're supposed to say, sorry; it's that there's a new...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that let you feel superheroic
So, hey, Captain Marvel is out now! And I'm writing this before having actually seen it, so I can't say word one about whether...
The Stream Team: Focusing on Star Trek Online’s Foundry before it poofs
News that another player-generated feature is getting shuttered makes Massively OP's MJ sad. And Star Trek Online's Foundry is going the way of the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 211: Carrying the Torchlight
Justin and Bree deep-dive Torchlight Frontiers and discuss Path of Exile's Synthesis, the great LOTRO and DDO outage of 2019, the impending end of Kritika Online and the Foundry system in Star Trek Online and Neverwinter, Guild Wars 2's warclaw, Alganon, and a mailbag topic about housing in MMOs.
