A major Chinese publisher with a large branch in the US, known here primarily for its stewardship of Cryptic Games’ MMORPGs, including Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Champions Online.
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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...
Torchlight Infinite’s City of Aeterna is live tonight with the new Iris character
It's release day for Torchlight Infinite as XD Games opens gates to The City of Aeterna - or rather, will do starting at 8...
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...
Tower of Fantasy’s The Dragon Cove update is live with a new zone and simulacrum
As promised, Tower of Fantasy has been crowned with its 3.2 The Dragon Cove update today, complete with its new storyline, new character, new...
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...
Torchlight Infinite previews its September 7 City of Aeterna update
Players of Torchlight Infinite already knew that the City of Aeterna update was coming on September 7th, but now they have a better idea...
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.
The MOP Up: Aura Kingdom 2’s global pre-registration arrives with NFTs in tow
Aura Kingdom 2: Evolution, the mobile follow-up to the first Aura Kingdom, started taking global pre-registrations this past week. By signing up, players can...
Torchlight Infinite launches City of Aeterna on September 8
Multiplayer mobile title Torchlight Infinite announced a new expansion overnight: It's called The City of Aeterna, and it's arriving on September 8th. We don't...
The Stream Team: Starting Neverwinter’s final elemental evil adventure, water
Air, fire, and earth are all completed, so the only elemental evil epic adventure Massively OP's MJ has left in Neverwinter is water. Sadly,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 432: Palia breaks through to the other side
Justin and Bree discuss Palia's soft launch, WoW Classic hardcore realms, ArcheAge 2, ArcheAge's future, Ashfall, and Nightingale, with adventures in LOTRO, STO, SWG Legends, and Palia, plus a mailbag topic on mundane but enjoyable MMO activities.
Star Trek Online opens up a special museum to tour the franchise’s starships
With a massive franchise spanning decades and numerous television shows and movies, Star Trek boasts a mountain of legacy content under its belt. So...
Neverwinter’s new patch makes abyssal hunt monsters less painful and keeps Demonweb Pits bosses in line
With Neverwinter's 26th module now out in the wild, the time has come for Cryptic to make a few adjustments to some of the...
Perfect Ten: 10 memorable MMO marketing campaigns from the genre’s past
Believe it or not, MMOs get off easy when it comes to notorious marketing campaigns. Anything on the following list, good or bad, is...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite Cryptic MMO?
A little ways back, I made the claim that Cryptic Studios' MMORPGs are -- for me -- the epitome of "comfort gaming" in this...
The MOP Up: MapleStory rebuilds the legendary guild castle
MapleStory broke out the second part of its two-part summer Savior update which is "packed with a new mystical land to discover, a new...
