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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Star Trek Online’s New Dawn will be ‘full of mystery’
Star Trek Online is on the verge of a storyline shift with the upcoming Season 11: New Dawn, as it puts the wraps on...
Champions Online is letting players take a walk on the villainous side
Having an option to play a supervillain in an MMO can be tough, since supervillains are usually meant to have big skills and powers...
Perfect Ten: Mobile MMOs coming soon to a pocket near you
It may be true that interest in playing and developing mobile games has peaked, although personally I very much like mobile gaming. On the...
Perfect World launches PWI’s Riptide update
Perfect World Entertainment has announced that its Riptide update is live for Perfect World International. The patch includes a new star chart system, which...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 26: Failcom
Justin and Larry discuss WildStar's F2P, Funcom's troubles, Otherland's alpha, Darkfall's soft wipe, Neverwinter's strongholds, and the next iteration of Hellgate.
The Daily Grind: Should MMO studios disclose the odds of winning lockbox prizes?
Every once in a while in an MMO, the desire to play with numbers grips me, like the time I hand-crafted a thousand drinks in Star...
Star Trek Online invites the players to help hunt down bugs
Bugs. They plague every online game, no matter how hard the designers try to hunt them down. So Star Trek Online is seeking an...
The Daily Grind: Are lifetime subs ever worth it?
Seeing Champions Online's lifetime subscription go on sale last week -- for the "low" price of $200 -- made me think once again what...
Neverwinter nerfs high-level mobs, grants increased XP
Neverwinter is making some changes to the leveling curve between 60 and 70. A dev blog released this week says that the team has...
Champions Online overhauls events and offers sales
Events are the real thing to do at this point in Champions Online; there's not a whole lot of new updates in the pipe...
Perfect Ten: Ten MMO futures that never were
One of the things I spend a lot of time thinking about is Operation Unthinkable. For those of you who don't feel like clicking...
Perfect World touts Neverwinter’s Strongholds release
Neverwinter's Strongholds update is officially live. It's the seventh expansion for the free-to-play Dungeons & Dragons MMO, and it features customizable guild spaces as well...
Neverwinter’s Stronghold expansion is here, and so are its patch notes
Neverwinter's latest expansion is here, and the fantasy MMO's website is worth clicking on if you're looking for the Stronghold patch notes. If you're...
The Mop Up: FEAR is dead edition
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...
Champions Online’s lifetime sub goes on sale
Even superheroes deserve a break now and then. Champions Online is temporarily reducing the cost of its lifetime subscription with a month-long sale, giving...
Neverwinter introduces scaling subscription VIP program
Free-to-play Neverwinter has decided to dip its toes in the neighboring pool of subscriptions, as Cryptic announced that it's now offering a VIP membership...
Star Trek Online announces Season 11: New Dawn
The war against the Iconians has been going on since Star Trek Online first launched, even though it hasn't always been immediately obvious. Season...
Neverwinter walks you through stronghold buildings, guild hall, and eateries
There's a heapload of information for Neverwinter players to absorb regarding the upcoming Stronghold module, and Cryptic's been rolling out the dev diaries left...
EverQuesting: (Almost) everything we know about EverQuest Next
In a perfect world, we'd have the mana of EverQuest Next news raining down from the sky, enough to satiate our hunger for information...
Tree of Savior starts limited English closed beta testing
Many gamers are trying to get a handle on what Tree of Savior will offer, an issue that's slightly compounded by the fact that...
