cryptic studios

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

Massively OP Podcast Episode 146: World of Warcraft’s fun police

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Justin and Bree discuss Marvel Heroes' death, Darkfall New Dawn, LOTRO 2018, Neverwinter Nights, WoW's fun police, DDO, Hearthstone, and Trove, with mailbag discussions on Disney the lockbox villain and the max we'd pay for MMO subscriptions.

Massively OP’s guide to MMO Thanksgiving 2017

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Stately resting between the gaudy purple and orange of Halloween and merry red and green of Christmas is the earth tone-saturated Thanksgiving. While no...

Neverwinter Nights’ new enhanced edition will support old modules

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It's the thing to do lately: rerelease a classic video game with just enough enhancements to charge for it all over again. In this...

Enter to win a trio of Star Trek Online console factional starter packs from PWE and MOP

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In honor of the launch of Star Trek Online Season 14: Emergence on console last week, PWE has granted Massively OP a bunch of goodies to raffle...

Magic: The Gathering Arena sets closed beta for December 4

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Magic: The Gathering Arena's alpha development is apparently going well, as according to a new dev blog and press release today, Wizards of the...

The MOP Up: Osiris New Dawn’s terrifying space ghosts (November 19, 2017)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

World of Warships sails into Steam’s port

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"You ain't anybody if you ain't on Steam," our momma told us when we were tykes. Of course, back then Steam had yet to...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO would you recommend to Marvel Heroes refugees?

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So Marvel Heroes has about six weeks to live thanks to the impending shutdown of the game following Disney's decision to drop Gazillion as...
Wow, positive.

Perfect Ten: A list of all the MMORPGs I supposedly hate

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Did you know about all the MMOs I hate? I sure as heck didn't! I mean, I knew there were a few games I...
Give me what I thought I wanted!

Neverwinter developers are addressing random queue issues

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There are some random queue issues in Neverwinter at the moment. By this, we mean that the issues are with the random queue, not...

The Daily Grind: What older MMO systems do you wish devs would upgrade?

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Perhaps few things bug me so much as when developers introduce a meaty gameplay system into an MMORPG only to neglect or abandon it...

The MOP Up: Eden Falling brings the turn-based apocalypse (November 5, 2017)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

Star Trek Online tells a scary story for Halloween

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Despite its utopian idealism, Star Trek isn't a stranger to the occasional scary tale or horror-themed outing. Captains in Star Trek Online have faced...

Star Trek Online’s secret weapon may be in its episode design

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One Gamasutra writer's return to Star Trek Online created a (ahem) discovery that this MMO contains a great wealth of storytelling thanks to its...

Battle Bards Episode 108: Vampires and werewolves

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Here’s a musical episode that you can really sink your teeth into! Your… ear teeth? In any case, the Battle Bards are evaluating our...

Star Trek Online is bringing miracles and kilts to consoles next month

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Once again, Star Trek Online's console community plans on catching to the latest update as Cryptic announced that Season 14: Emergence is scheduled to...
Harsh.

Neverwinter hosts the Masquerade of Liars for Halloween

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This year's Halloween event for Neverwinter is kind of harshly named, you guys. Seriously, "Masquerade of Liars?" That's a rather severe appellation to slap...

Neverwinter’s Swords of Chult update is live for PC with a new skirmish and PvP overhaul

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Swords of Chult is live for PC players of Neverwinter today. If you're not a D&D person, you might be wondering what the heck...

Star Trek Online brings back TNG shuttle and Discovery uniform giveaway

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If you're kicking yourself that you missed out on some of the more recent giveaways over at Star Trek Online, then kick yourself into...

Perfect Ten: Why Star Trek Online is an underrated MMORPG

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I'm the type of player who has a stable of games that I return to from time to time, particularly when I'm looking for...

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