cryptic studios

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

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Star Trek Online celebrates First Contact Day starting on April 5

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It's always nice when in-game events reference events that would matter a great deal to residents of that world even if they mean little...
Behind my own eyes.

Star Trek Online launches Season 14.5 behind the eyes of the Tzenkethi

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Those of you longing to play a Tzenkethi captain in Star Trek Online will not have your wishes answered with the Season 14.5 update,...

The MMO Book Club introduces the good kind of lootboxes

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Not quite a year ago, we covered a brand-new MMO community called the MMO Book Club, whose goal was to bring MMO players together...
A journey into complexity.

Perfect Ten: More anthropomorphic MMO studio conversations

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A while back, you may recall that I posted some of my conversations with anthropomorphized concepts of MMO studios. If you don't remember this,...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 163: Expansions ‘Я’ Us

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Justin and Bree talk expansions for Elder Scrolls Online, Star Trek Online, and Skyforge, with news on Bless, GDC, Ship of Heroes, SWTOR, a new Star Wars title, Project Gorgon, RIFT, WoW, and Trove, with mailbag questions on whether Gorgon vs EverQuest and our Steam Team.
Hmph.

The Daily Grind: What components make up an attractive MMO expansion?

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When Star Trek Online announced its Deep Space Nine-themed Victory is Life expansion last week, Eliot and I were briefly talking about its potential...

One Shots: At least we have pie

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What's the last thing you've ever done in an MMORPG before it was shut down? If you have ever found yourself in this unfortunate...

Neverwinter brings the Lost City of Omu to consoles on April 24

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Nothing like a two-month wait for new content while your friends on a different platform get to experience it all! Such is the continued...
Hmph.

Star Trek Online announces its fourth expansion, Victory is Life

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It's time to head back to Deep Space 9 in Star Trek Online with the announcement of the game's fourth expansion. Star Trek Online:...
Not happening.

Saga of Lucimia will fight wiki infodumps with sparse patch notes

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You know how when it's patch day in your favorite MMORPG and you're skimming the patch notes trying to figure out what exactly changed,...

Perfect World takes its Arc quest system offline for an upgrade

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If you have been accessing Perfect World's MMOs directly, you may be ignorant that the company's launcher has its own daily quest system. Has...

Star Trek Online will make a 3-D model of your ship for hundreds of dollars

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For Star Trek Online captains who have fallen deeply in love with their starship of choice, now they can take that ship out of...
Romantic?

EVE Online, Star Trek Online, and Elite Dangerous players memorialize physicist Stephen Hawking

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Multiple MMORPG communities are celebrating the life of internationally renowned cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who passed away earlier this week. In EVE Online, players came together...

Ever, Jane eyes a new update, overhauls forums and website

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We haven't checked in with pre-eminent roleplaying MMORPG Ever, Jane in a long time - since last summer, in fact - but the game,...
This isn't how it had to be.

Perfect Ten: MMO missteps that didn’t have to happen

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Around the time I started working at Massively-that-was, there was an article that I quite liked talking about how four high-profile MMO failures were...

Another writer allegedly leaves BioWare – what on earth is going on with Anthem?

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Surfacing at the tail end of last week was the news that multiple former BioWare devs who'd all contributed heavily to Star Wars The...

Former SWTOR creative director and key writers form up under new studio FogBank

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We don't know exactly what titles they're working on, but three former Star Wars: The Old Republic veterans have joined forces under a studio...

Enter to win a Neverwinter Teal-Dusted Axebeak for PC in honor of Lost City of Omu’s launch

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To celebrate the arrival of Lost City of Omu for Neverwinter on PC last week, PWE has kindly given Massively OP 50 mount keys to give away to our...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 160: Defiance ’till the end

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Justin and Bree discuss Sea of Thieves, Defiance 2050, Funcom, Secret World, Guild Wars 2, and Villagers & Heroes, plus new updates in Neverwinter, WoW, Black Desert, and Path of Exile, with a mailbag question on all the MMOs we're looking forward to.

Star Trek Online knocks off $100 from its lifetime subscription

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Picard and crew might not have needed money in the oh-so-enlightened Federation, but if you're going to grab a lifetime subscription to Star Trek...

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