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 patches in balance tweaks and bug fixes as Vault of the Stars is live
Sometimes, even minor patches for Neverwinter have a clear and understandable throughline of what's being changed. Other times, you wind up with the game's most...
A Star Trek Online player opened 12,000 lockboxes so you don’t have to
You may have had your fingers in an MMO lockbox or two over the years, but we're willing to bet that you don't count...
Massively Uplifting: Love and generosity in Sea of Thieves, Guild Wars 2, SOTA, and more
February is often known as the commercialized month of love (Happy Hallmark Day!), but that doesn't mean there wasn't genuine love abounding throughout the...
Star Trek Online fans agitate to bring Leonard Nimoy-voiced missions back to the game
Leonard Nimoy's contribution to the Star Trek fandom cannot possibly be overstated, so bearing that in mind, it makes sense that fans of Star...
The Stream Team: There will be fire in the mountain when she streams Neverwinter
There will be fire in the mountain when she streams. (When she streams!)
There will be fire in the mountain when she streams. (When she...
The Steam Team: Outfitting a T6 ship in Star Trek Online
In all her years of playing, Massively OP's MJ has never selected and outfitted a T6 ship in Star Trek Online. Unfortunately, no matter...
Perfect Ten: MMOs of the ‘internet spaceships’ genre
It's at once the most important and most underserved genre in MMOs, aside from gigantic robots - it's the valuable genre of internet spaceships. They're...
Enter to win a Neverwinter Sharandar art poster and Pack of the Sprite key for PC courtesy of PWE and MOP!
Now that Neverwinter's Sharandar: The Iron Tooth has finally released into the wild for PC players, PWE has kindly granted Massively OP some fun...
Torchlight III spies a distant content release, works to bring Gamepass to PC
While the next big content update for Torchlight III is still "a few months" away from being deployed, Etchra Games released some hints and...
Neverwinter pushes back the console release of Sharandar to March 16
If you were among the console players of Neverwinter eager to get your character's feet into all sorts of Feywild trouble, we've got some...
Neverwinter offers a preview of the upcoming Vault of Stars dungeon
Just one time, just one time, I'd like to open up a vault in an MMORPG and be greeted with gobs of riches or...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs to get you out of your gaming rut
We have all been there. You've been gaming in your standard comfort MMOs when one day you hit that wall of burnout. You feel...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 309: You can take my loot over my dead body
Justin and Bree discuss Valheim, Elite Dangerous' slave cult, BlizzConline, Hearthstone, WoW's valor, Neverwinter Nights Arelith, Phantasy Star Online 2, Black Desert, and Shadowbane, with adventures in LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, SWG Legends, and Farm Together, with mailbag topics on full-loot open world PvP and brute-forcing unpopular gameplay design.
Neverwinter’s Sharandar: The Iron Tooth is live on PC today
After a week's delay and a combat overhaul that set the playerbase ablaze, Perfect World has finally unleashed Neverwinter's next big thing: Sharandar. As...
Not So Massively: Torchlight III is less than the sum of its parts
Last summer in this very column, I argued that ARPGs are the pizza of gaming: Even when they're bad, they're still pretty good.
The Torchlight...
One Shots: Outer space needs an attitude readjustment
In retrospect, outer space was asking for it. It was giving all of us a cold shoulder, being very distant, and lording its size...
Lunar New Year sales and events arrive to Steam, Champions Online, and gobs more
It's lovely seeing the Lunar New Year holiday continue to rise in prominence in the west - and especially in online video games. And...
The Stream Team: Drow, Driders, and other creepy crawlies in Neverwinter
After venturing to the edge of the Underdark and back in Neverwinter (and slaying a drider prince), Massively OP's MJ and her D&D night...
Neverwinter celebrates the Year of the Ox
It's time for the Year of the Ox in Neverwinter starting today, and if you've long been waiting for ox content in the game, you...
The Stream Team: A Leap of Faith in Star Trek Online’s House Reborn
Last week for Star Trek Online's anniversary, Massively OP's MJ started the new House Reborn adventures by playing J'Ula. She learned of a fiery...
