A PWE studio known primarily for Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Champions Online.
cryptic studios
One Shots: Diet lightsabers
I think it's about high time we got a Star Wars game in which lightsabers functioned properly as instruments that could melt or slice...
Enter to win a Star Trek Online PC Mirror Escort Carrier, NX Light Escort, and elite services starter pack
With Star Trek Online's Mirror of Discovery out and live and launched, PWE has kindly granted Massively OP a bunch of goodies to give away in...
The Stream Team: Star Trek Online turns nine!
Happy ninth birthday Star Trek Online! With the anniversary festivities in full swing, Massively OP's MJ dives in to party with Q and her...
The Game Archaeologist: Dungeon Runners
Where do you rest on the spectrum of humor? If you find yourself giggling and snorting at dumb jokes, groan-worthy puns, and satire so...
World of Warcraft, Neverwinter roll out Lunar New Year events and wild costumes
More MMOs are pushing out Lunar New Year content this week, joining games like Guild Wars 2 and Closers in celebrating the season.
In Neverwinter,...
PWE is investigating why Star Trek Online and Neverwinter are accidentally blocking Windows Server users
How would you feel if the next time you went to log into your favorite MMO, the launcher went "Yeah, but no" and denied...
Massively Overthinking: Why aren’t you playing the MMO most like your favorite sunsetted game?
This week's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from reader Smuggler-in-a-YT.
"Star Wars Galaxies had its problems, but the sense of community, purpose, and story (through...
Star Trek Online update brings Mirror Universe Tilly, free tardigrade pets, and better skin
You can't keep a bad captain down -- or an available voice actress who is bearing the sole burden of representing her entire TV...
Perfect Ten: The worst MMORPG expansions of all time
A great MMO expansion brings so much to the table: fresh excitement for a game, new classes, innovative features, expanded vistas, additional races, and...
The MOP Up: WildStar suffers another indignity
Miss WildStar? Well at least there's the soundtrack to listen to on various sites, right? Nope! Apparently NCsoft pulled the acclaimed score from sites...
PSA: Grab three free Star Trek Online ships right now
Kicking off a week of free giveaways ahead for Star Trek Online, Cryptic's made a trio of Tier 5 (T5) starships available for free...
Global Chat: The big question mark of Anthem
What's the biggest gaming unknown for you going into 2019? For MMO blogger Cary at Virtual Bastion, it's whether or not BioWare is going to...
Finger guns and Vulcan ships target Star Trek Online’s ninth birthday
Pew pew! The noises by themselves aren't enough; you need the full finger gun action to really make an impression on everyone else. It's...
Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2019
Working in this field has given me something of a sense of how a lot of the industry is going to play out. Take...
The MOP Up: Star Trek Online’s Battle at the Binary Stars heats up
Star Trek Online has a serious crush on Discovery right now -- and why not, since the show has propeled the franchise back into...
Star Trek Online prepares for new featured episodes in Mirror of Discovery
The Mirror Universe is exactly like the main universe in Star Trek Online, except it's all evil. You might think that would provide a fairly...
Star Trek Online introduces account-based progression for its 9th anniversary
Stuck at the max level without anything meaningful to do in the notoriously slow-to-update Star Trek Online? Cryptic is introducing a whole new account-wide...
Craig Zinkievich’s Aliens shooter is looking more and more like an MMOFPS after all
A couple of years ago, several key devs who once built MMOs for Cryptic - Craig Zinkievich, Shannon Posniewski, and Matt Highison - announced...
Global Chat: How do we fight early access disasters?
With the year in MMOs ending on a sour note due to the botched rollouts of both Fallout 76 and Atlas, blogger Endgame Variable...
Perfect Ten: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2018
A not-inconsequential part of me misses the days when every MMO would pump out boxed expansions. I like buying boxes of stuff I like...