A PWE studio known primarily for Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Champions Online.
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The MOP Up: Soulframe releases a soundtrack tidbit
Soulframe fans starved to hear something -- anything -- about Digital Extremes' upcoming fantasy RPG were thrown an audio morsel this week in the...
Perfect Ten: The 10 unsung heroes of the MMO user interface
If we ever think of an MMO's user interface, it's either when we're getting settled into a new game or when a title decides...
The Stream Team: Star Trek Online’s Incursion with Cryptic’s CM
Star Trek Online: Incursion is out, and it's full of trouble from other dimensions! Massively OP's MJ has already fought off The Borg from...
The MOP Up: Wakfu’s brand-new tutorial island
To go along with a new single-account server, Wakfu is introducing a fresh tutorial that's situated on Rii, the Celestial Island. The team hopes...
The Stream Team: Neverwinter’s Slade the Thricedrowned
Even after crushing part of Neverwinter's Cult of the Crushing Wave last time, Massively OP's MJ has just gotten started! There are still plenty...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 437: The MMO moving-in blues
Justin and Bree discuss Star Trek Online Incursion, WoW's Guardians of the Dream, LOTRO's River Hobbit housing and the Mariner, and Elder Scrolls Online's update 40, with a podcast topic on the financial barriers to returning to MMOs.
Global Chat: How do you make a compelling new player experience in MMOs?
In a slightly older essay, Kalyriene looked at the importance of the new player experience in MMORPGs -- and why both World of Warcraft...
The Stream Team: The Borg are back with Star Trek Online’s Incursion
Having Borg in her own universe was bad enough, but now Massively OP's MJ has to deal with Borg invading from another universe in...
Star Trek Online’s Incursion and season 30 are live on PC
The Borg aren't really that threatening any more in Star Trek Online. It's hard to still feel menaced by a threat that has been...
Rumor: Embracer is trying to sell Gearbox – and therefore Cryptic and its MMORPGs
The Embracer Group contract disaster continues to generate destructive waves all over the gaming industry, and now it's landing at our doorstep, as the...
The Stream Team: Neverwinter War Machines
Troubles with elemental evils involve cultists? You don't say! Massively OP's MJ never would have guessed -- especially not after eradicating the cultists causing...
Massively Overthinking: The dumbest deaths in MMORPGs
This past week has been amusing for everyone in the MMO community and beyond who loves to watch people die stupid deaths in video...
Neverwinter tweaks Cleric at-will powers in an attempt to tamp down the impact of animation cancelling
Fans of fighting games or action combat MMOs are probably familiar with the concept of cancelling a move in order to get through animations...
The MOP Up: Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader adds multiplayer coop
Turn-based CRPG Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader announced that it will be including coop multiplayer with its PC launch (there is no date yet set,...
Champions Online is giving away freebie freeform slots for its 14th anniversary
Wanna feel old, MMO fans? Champions Online is celebrating its 14th birthday for a month starting tomorrow, and Cryptic didn't forget: It's throwing a...
Perfect Ten: Times when MMOs brought about world-shattering cataclysms
The notion of an in-game cataclysm is hardly the sole domain of Activision-Blizzard; on the contrary, large-scale apocalypses pop up all the time in...
Star Trek Online Incursion launches for PC on September 12, starring Garrett Wang, Kipleigh Brown, and Erin Macdonald
Star Trek Online players will soon be boldly going back into the Multiverse plotline with the release of Incursion, coming to PC on September...
The MOP Up: RuneScape’s community is ‘smashing’ that Necromancy skill
Jagex said that Necromancy has proven to be a huge hit in RuneScape, with the community taking to this new skill line like a...
Embracer Q1 FY 23/24: Sales and debts improve, Cryptic MMOs bolster back catalogue
It's time for another MMO and multiplayer fiscal report, this time coming from Embracer Group, the company that owns Gearbox Publishing, which owns Cryptic...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 433: Throne & Delay
Justin and Bree discuss Throne & Liberty's delay, WoW's upcoming patch, DDO's mini-expansion, and financial reports for NCsoft, Pearl Abyss, and Square-Enix, with adventures in Palia, LOTRO, New World, and Star Trek Online, plus mailbag topics on rich economy-centric sandboxes and MMOs that need graphical refreshes.
