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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Perfect World Entertainment combining all forums into one setting
There are a lot of games under the publishing banner of Perfect World Entertainment, and the vast majority of them are getting mashed together....
Perfect World to become privately owned
Perfect World is no longer a publicly traded company, as founder Michael Yufeng Chi made a deal to take the company private.
Chi will take...
Neverwinter’s new lead designer takes a ‘hard look’ at Elemental Evil
Neverwinter's Elemental Evil update had some issues that extend beyond some ill-distributed reward codes. A letter to the community from new lead designer Scott...
Perfect Ten: The 10 things every MMO’s official site should have
Are you ready to have you mind absolutely blown open? Because I have an astonishing truth to lay at your feet: While doing this...
Star Trek Online’s Iconian War begins today
For the past five years of operation, Star Trek Online has built up to the conflict with the Iconians. Now it's time for the...
Neverwinter disables promotional codes following exploits
Last week, the Neverwinter team distributed a little bonus code via email to player accounts in celebration of the Elemental Evil update -- just...
The Daily Grind: Do you want minigames in your MMO?
I won't pretend that I'm one of the biggest fans of the game, but I'm really glad that Triple Triad is a thing in...
Tom Paris, Miral Paris coming to Star Trek Online
A pair of veteran actors are joining the cast of Star Trek Online. Lisa LoCicero will be reprising her role as Lieutenant Commander Miral...
Forsaken World is getting a mobile edition
Could we be on the verge of an MMO mobile gaming revolution? Several mobile versions of Asian MMOs are in the making, including Aion...
Champions Online leaves Cryptic North for Cryptic Studios
Big (but not bad) news for Champions Online: The superhero title is relocating along with its team back to its original development studio.
Senior Game...
Interview: Star Trek Online’s Al Rivera on the looming Iconians
The Iconians are coming to Star Trek Online, and if you've been playing the game during the past five years, you know that's a...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that let you turn real money into MMO money
Two days ago, World of Warcraft launched the WoW Token service, which will kill the game forever. It thus joins the list of every...
Neverwinter’s Elemental Evil is now available, insert Minsc and Boo joke here
For some reason it feels like we've been writing about Minsc and Boo for months. In any case, I guess we haven't been writing...
Star Trek Online lays out Delta Recruitment rewards
Star Trek Online is launching into a big storyline soon, but like most storylines you would expect for a game that's been running for...
Neverwinter launches on Xbox One
You've played the MMO while sitting hunched forward at your computer -- now it's time to enjoy Neverwinter while slouching back on your couch...
Perfect World suffers more layoffs, this time in the EU
Massively OP has been contacted by a former Perfect World employee — who wishes to remain anonymous and whose identity we have confirmed — about...
Sword Coast Legends demos a multiplayer dungeon crawl
It might not be an MMO, but we can see the vestiges of MMORPG player-generated content (and more poignantly, Neverwinter Nights) in Wizards of the Coast's...
Star Trek Online delivers rare rewards for featured episode
Star Trek Online must really, really want you to play the featured episode Uneasy Allies, because the team is waving around rare rewards for...
Minsc and Boo go for the eyes in Neverwinter’s Elemental Evil
While fans are surely looking forward to Neverwinter's sixth expansion, which is launching just two weeks from now, a portion of the anticipation may be...
Massively OP Podcast: Episode 7
Justin and Bree discuss EVE Fanfest, ArcheAge's dolphingate, the PWE/Cryptic layoffs, Elder Scrolls Online's B2P relaunch, FFXI's maintenance mode, Guild Wars 2, and The Secret World, with mailbag questions on Sword Coast Legends and NWN.
