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 Ten: Why trend-chasing doesn’t work at all for online games
Video games have always been a remarkably insular field; that's the nature of development. Someone produces Super Mario Bros, and a few years later...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 165: Step into the Morninglight
Justin and MJ discuss Secret World Legends, DDO, WoW, Conan Exiles, RIFT, LOTRO, TERA, Ultima Online, ArcheAge, and Star Trek Online, with mailbag questions on combat combos and recapturing former players.
PAX East 2018: Talking superhero MMOs with Ship of Heroes’ Casey McGeever
At this year's PAX East, I discovered that my mental picture of Casey McGeever did not match the actual man in person, but that...
The MOP Up: Paladins’ newest hero will punch your head off (April 8, 2018)
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...
Choose My Adventure: Warframe in review
It's funny how presentation problems can have such a huge impact on the same product.
Warframe, as a game, is almost crippled by its lack...
Star Trek Online celebrates First Contact Day starting on April 5
It's always nice when in-game events reference events that would matter a great deal to residents of that world even if they mean little...
Star Trek Online launches Season 14.5 behind the eyes of the Tzenkethi
Those of you longing to play a Tzenkethi captain in Star Trek Online will not have your wishes answered with the Season 14.5 update,...
RaiderZ plans on improving hit detection and map design with its relaunch
A game like RaiderZ with no targeting is highly reliant on its hit detection, but according to the latest release from the team behind...
Tree of Savior hands out second anniversary gifts, previews new classes
It's been two years since Tree of Savior leaped onto the Steam scene, and the crew is celebrating with a nine-week event that is...
The MMO Book Club introduces the good kind of lootboxes
Not quite a year ago, we covered a brand-new MMO community called the MMO Book Club, whose goal was to bring MMO players together...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 163: Expansions ‘Я’ Us
Justin and Bree talk expansions for Elder Scrolls Online, Star Trek Online, and Skyforge, with news on Bless, GDC, Ship of Heroes, SWTOR, a new Star Wars title, Project Gorgon, RIFT, WoW, and Trove, with mailbag questions on whether Gorgon vs EverQuest and our Steam Team.
The Daily Grind: What components make up an attractive MMO expansion?
When Star Trek Online announced its Deep Space Nine-themed Victory is Life expansion last week, Eliot and I were briefly talking about its potential...
One Shots: At least we have pie
What's the last thing you've ever done in an MMORPG before it was shut down? If you have ever found yourself in this unfortunate...
Neverwinter brings the Lost City of Omu to consoles on April 24
Nothing like a two-month wait for new content while your friends on a different platform get to experience it all! Such is the continued...
Star Trek Online announces its fourth expansion, Victory is Life
It's time to head back to Deep Space 9 in Star Trek Online with the announcement of the game's fourth expansion. Star Trek Online:...
Perfect World takes its Arc quest system offline for an upgrade
If you have been accessing Perfect World's MMOs directly, you may be ignorant that the company's launcher has its own daily quest system. Has...
Star Trek Online will make a 3-D model of your ship for hundreds of dollars
For Star Trek Online captains who have fallen deeply in love with their starship of choice, now they can take that ship out of...
EVE Online, Star Trek Online, and Elite Dangerous players memorialize physicist Stephen Hawking
Multiple MMORPG communities are celebrating the life of internationally renowned cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who passed away earlier this week.
In EVE Online, players came together...
Perfect Ten: MMO missteps that didn’t have to happen
Around the time I started working at Massively-that-was, there was an article that I quite liked talking about how four high-profile MMO failures were...
Enter to win a Neverwinter Teal-Dusted Axebeak for PC in honor of Lost City of Omu’s launch
To celebrate the arrival of Lost City of Omu for Neverwinter on PC last week, PWE has kindly given Massively OP 50 mount keys to give away to our...
