A PWE studio known primarily for Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Champions Online.
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Massively Overthinking: Starting over with MMORPGs
This week's Massively Overthinking topic is from a reader named Yasser, who asked us:
"If you had to pick one MMO to experience all over...
Neverwinter gives smaller guilds a leg-up on the Xbox One
Neverwinter has a small update in the works for the Xbox One that should assist smaller guilds with advancing by allowing them to form...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 75: Future oracles
Justin and Bree discuss WoW, Guild Wars 2, Shards Online, LOTRO & DDO, FFXIV, Black Desert, and more, with a mailbag question on boosting GW2 characters.
Discover a long-lost empire in Neverwinter’s next update
Cryptic's been adding new content so regularly to Neverwinter that what was one a 14-page adventure booklet is now a mighty campaign tome large...
One Shots: Strange voyages
As cool and iconic that Star Trek ships look, I've always thought they also came across as fragile, with pieces sticking out here and...
Star Trek Online is heading to Star Trek Las Vegas
Are you heading out to the City of Gin-Soaked Regrets (or "Las Vegas" as it's more commonly known) for Star Trek Las Vegas? Because...
Enter to win a Neverwinter PS4 gelatinous cube companion from PWE and Massively OP
To celebrate this week's Neverwinter launch on PlayStation 4, PWE has granted Massively OP 50 companion codes to give away to our readers!
The codes are for the Gelatinous Cube Companion, a...
Neverwinter’s Storm King’s Thunder expansion arrives August 16
Announced back in June, this summer's big Neverwinter expansion is called Storm King's Thunder, and as of today we know exactly when it's coming:...
Star Trek Online confuses community with ship giveaway
Who would have thought that the Ferengi could stir up such unrest in Star Trek?
Controversy has arisen after some Star Trek Online players have...
Star Trek Online sends players back in time for mining
Time travel is always a mess. In the past, Captain Kirk of the Enterprise brokered peace with the Gorn Hegemony, resulting in a peaceful...
Neverwinter launches on the PlayStation 4 today
Players who wanted to play Neverwinter on the PlayStation 4 but didn't want to drop $20 to access the game's head start have been...
The Soapbox: Calling an MMO launch a launch
It's launch.
Can we collectively accept that? Marketing, developers, and players alike? Launch is launch. When your game launches, it has launched. If I can...
The Daily Grind: What do you expect from MMORPG expansions in 2016?
I ran across an intriguing chunk of comments down below Justin's impressions piece on Star Trek Online's latest expansion. One reader said he was...
The MOP Up: RuneScape Chronicles’ beach party (July 17, 2016)
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...
One Shots: Gentlemen, to evil!
There are some subtle signs that you can look for when you're trying to gauge if you've become truly evil. Conquering small nations for...
Star Trek Online celebrates the franchise anniversary with an admiral’s uniform
This year, Star Trek Online celebrates an important anniversary. Star Trek has been around for 50 years, and whether you first fell in love...
Trion’s Scott Hartsman on Trove’s console launch, fighting lag, and whether RIFT is next
Following Trion's announcement earlier this week that its cutesy voxel sandbox MMORPG Trove had registered five million players in its first year and that...
Massively Overthinking: The best MMORPG trailers of all time
This week's Massively Overthinking should be a fun one -- and hopefully it'll contrast nicely with the Game Archaeologist column we ran last week, which...
Neverwinter targets the Hunter Ranger for a major revamp
Sooner or later, MMO development teams like to clean house with their classes. It's one of those scary-yet-exciting changes, because such revamps might mean...
Perfect Ten: The most exciting MMO developments yet to come in 2016
In the annals of MMORPG history, 2016 might well go down as a very odd duck of a year. While on the surface it...
