A PWE studio known primarily for Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Champions Online.
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Perfect Ten: The best MMORPG updates and expansions of 2016 (that aren’t Legion)
Sometimes you have to exclude something from a list. I could, for example, praise World of Warcraft: Legion for being a really good expansion...
NetEase announces Justice, an MMO four years in the making
If you have more than a passing interest in NetEase's upcoming Revelation Online, you should also keep an eye on another title that the...
PSA: Champions Online is running a hideout sale through January 1st
Let's face it, you are not the best hero in Champions Online. You try to do good, you really do, but your efforts at...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: MMORPG Studio of the Year
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Best MMORPG Studio of 2016, which was awarded to Square-Enix last year.
We asked our writers to...
Neverwinter adds more dungeon loot – and the space to store it
Here's something to look forward to in 2017: Neverwinter is preparing an overhaul of its dungeons that includes a whole lot more loot.
"I can...
Neverwinter’s Sea of Moving Ice lands on console January 17
Are you a console player staring longingly at Neverwinter's Sea of Moving Ice update, which launched back in November for PC players? Sorry dudes...
Star Trek Online’s Borg come home for the holidays
What are you hoping to see in your stocking come Christmas morning? If you're like most geeks, chances are that you are hoping against...
Cold Iron’s Craig Zinkievich on funding, the genre, and the MMO nature of the game
Earlier this month, we got a curious press release from a new gaming studio called Cold Iron. I might have skipped over it but...
Neverwinter’s Winter Festival arrives through January 5
Well, that's it; Neverwinter is officially a game of lies now. Why? Because if the game is called "Neverwinter" with an eponymous city as...
Perfect World Entertainment integrates Twitch streaming into its Arc launcher
If you want to play Neverwinter, Gigantic, Star Trek Online, or maybe even Perfect World International, you're probably familiar with Perfect World Entertainment's Arc...
Datamining hints at new content coming to Star Trek Online
So what's next for Star Trek Online? Intrepid dataminers have been poking around in the game's files since the last patch and found a...
Star Trek Online’s 3D-printed ships aren’t happening after all
Remember how Star Trek Online made a big announcement about getting custom ships 3D printed for players? That sounded cool right from the start....
Ask Mo: Scoring last year’s Massively OP MMORPG predictions
As we do every year, today we're going to squint back a year, into the depths of a Massively Overthinking from the tail end...
The Champions Online Winter Event stomps into town
Being a superhero means that every holiday - every single one of them - will be met with an array of themed villains. It's...
Perfect Ten: The healthiest live MMORPGs at the end of 2016
About a year and a half ago, my colleague, co-worker, and friend to man and beast alike Justin compiled a list of the healthiest...
Former Cryptic devs form Cold Iron studio to build ‘AAA online action games’
Every wonder what happened to Craig Zinkievich after he moved on from Star Trek Online and Cryptic Studios? Turns out he and several other...
Star Trek Online drops support for Windows XP and older graphics cards in 2017
Fans of Star Trek Online, it is time to update your computers! At least, it's time if you've been putting it off for a...
Epic MMO Battles of History: Star Trek Online vs. Star Wars: The Old Republic
Asking whether Star Trek or Star Wars is the better science fiction series is like asking whether Game of Thrones or The Tudors is...
One Shots: Night voyage
Hark! What is that over there, on the ocean? 'Tis nothing. Probably some local fisherman out for a pleasure cruise at night in eel-infested...
Here’s the schedule for all of PWE’s Christmas events
Perfect World wasted no time in pulling the trigger on its crop of winter holiday events now that December is here. The MMORPG publisher...