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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Neverwinter changes up skill nodes to fight botting
The bots of 2016 aren't as cool as the Transformers and Go-Bots of yesteryear told us they'd be. Instead of saving the world and...
Perfect World International lands on Steam with new player housing system
Perfect World is intent this week on rolling out the remainder of its MMORPG catalogue to Steam. Earlier this year, we saw Swordsman take...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 61: Update-o-rama!
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Legion, Ascent, Guild Wars 2, Star Trek Online, RIFT, and LOTRO, plus mailbag questions on The Secret World and WoW killers.
Snag a Perfect World International Dream Chaser booster and mount from PWE and MOP
In honor of the launch of Perfect World International's Elysium expansion, PWE has granted us 1000 keys for a sweet Dream Chaser booster pack that...
Neverwinter arrives on the Windows Store for Windows 10
Those who have already upgraded to Windows 10 have been dealing with the usual issues of a new operating system and associated irritations, including...
PWE’s wuxia MMORPG Swordsman is getting a new expansion called Lone Wanderer
Perfect World Entertainment has just announced a brand-new expansion for Swordsman, its 2014 MMORPG based on the wuxia novels of Louis Cha. Called Lone...
Neverwinter’s tabletop campaign delivers a month of prizes
Neverwinter's not-quite-an-April-Fools-joke tabletop game is scheduled to run through the entire month of April. This is not just to give players a chance of...
Interview: Star Trek Online’s 11.5 mid-season update
Yesterday's Season 11.5 update for Star Trek Online is a bit of a hodgepodge, an assortment of several separate pieces all sitting in the...
Enter to win a Star Trek Online Vaadwaur Astika Heavy Battlecruiser from PWE and Massively OP
In honor of Star Trek Online's mid-season 11.5 launch, PWE has granted Massively OP five Vaadwaur Astika Heavy Battlecruisers to give away to our readers!
"Battlecruisers of the...
Star Trek Online launches Season 11.5 today
Are you tired of Star Trek Online's clunky old skill system? Are you eager to start showing your strategic side in space battles? Do...
Livelock reveals its final character, Catalyst
Livelock has revealed its final character out of its lineup of robots, and she's not going into battle alone. Not just in the sense...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with huge class rosters
After talking with Mark Jacobs the other week about the difficulty of balancing Camelot Unchained's 30 classes, it got my mind thinking of MMOs...
Neverwinter’s Maze Engine expansion launches for Xbox One May 3
Good news for Xbox One players who love Neverwinter (and there are apparently a lot of you): The game's Maze Engine expansion, which launched...
The MOP Up: Paragon recruits Sevarog (April 3, 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...
Neverwinter warns players of incoming nerfs
Nobody loves to be on the receiving end of the mighty nerf-bat, which is probably why Cryptic is trying to cushion the blow by...
Neverwinter’s in-game tabletop D&D campaign is live today
Neverwinter's "Marvelous Game" is live today, just in time for April Fools' Day shenanigans.
Portobello's Campaign is basically a D&D tabletop campaign... inside the D&D...
Star Trek Online is working on its next expansion and the return of exploration
Star Trek Online captains who are feeling the pinch of being denied exploring those final frontiers might soon have a reason to rev up...
Star Trek Online introduces a ship cosmetic system in Season 11.5
Star Trek Online Lead Programmer Daniel "FlyingTarg" Razza has good news for captains who want to micromanage just how pretty their ships are.
Beginning with...
Neverwinter whips up a new tabletop campaign for April
You might recall that the too-clever-by-half Neverwinter team created a game-within-a-game a while back, transforming players into tabletop figures to go through a campaign...
Perfect Ten: Most notable console MMORPGs to date
It used to be that hunting for a console MMORPG was one of the most fruitless endeavors known to gamers. The PC was where...