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: 10 tips for crafting a unique MMO character name
Tell me if you've ever been here: You just finished spending way too much time pouring over options in the character creation screen and...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 152: Allied races and superhero sprints
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, ARK, Portal Knights, World of Warcraft, Champions Online, Fractured, Ship of Heroes, Black Desert, Elder Scrolls Online, and Life is Feudal, with mailbag questions on teaching MMO teamwork to kids and lockboxes vs. advertising.
Lockbox roundup: MMO studios on ‘elegant’ lockboxes, legal issues, and the ‘cosmetics only’ angle
You know the lockbox thing is reaching saturation when there are so many things to cover we have to resort to a roundup. Nevertheless,...
PWE is sunsetting both Battle of the Immortals and War of the Immortals next week
Add two more to the sunset list: Perfect World announced last month that it will sunset the international versions of six-year-old War of the...
Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2017
It's true that we lost a lot of MMOs in 2016 -- bigger and more important ones than in 2014 and 2015. 2017, however, has...
The Stream Team: Winter holidays in Neverwinter
With a name like Neverwinter, you have to wonder how the cold-weather holidays are celebrated in-game. Wonder no more! Massively OP's MJ is diving...
Chaos Theory: 2017 was a big year for the Secret World IP
Well, 2017 was interesting. It's not often that your favorite game starts off as one game at the beginning of the year and then...
MMO Year in Review: July was the high mark of the year for MMORPGs (July 2017)
We’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into...
One Shots: Hand over the presents or the reindeer gets it
Well, that escalated fast.
A showdown with a Santa Claus raid boss in The Division led to BalsBigBrother attempting an unorthodox tactic of threatening Donner...
The ultimate guide to The Game Archaeologist’s MMO archives
When we moved over here to Massively Overpowered, some of us transplanted our long-running columns to the new space. I perhaps felt most devastated...
The Daily Grind: What MMO rewards are you chasing this holiday season?
One thing is always for certain this time of year: MMO players have their hands full with Christmas events, so much so that they...
Choose My Adventure Year in Review: Elder Scrolls Online, LOTRO, WildStar, Black Desert, and Neverwinter
So I've been writing this column for a year now. A little more than a year, as it happens, but last year there was...
Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the best value at the start of 2018
Let's talk about value. A couple of weeks back, I did an article on the healthiest games at the end of the year; today,...
Neverwinter’s Sword of Chult lands on console in January
Hey consolers. What are you doing in January? Back to the grind, right? Not in Neverwinter: You're headed to the jungle in Swords of...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG articles of 2017
For this week's Massively Overthinking, I've asked the writers to do something most of them hate: brag! We've tried to isolate our favorite personal...
Christmas happenings in DCUO, Overwatch, Worlds Adrift, and Neverwinter
Faster than the snow can come down and the heating bills go up are all of the holiday events that are streaming into, well,...
Choose My Adventure: Secret World Legends in review
Earlier this year, when we had yet to actually get much information about Secret World Legends, I posted a piece in which I discussed...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 148: Vampires, kobolds, and pirates
Justin and Bree discuss MOP's December awards, DDO, Secret World Legends, Path of Exile, Hearthstone, Sea of Thieves, RIFT, and Blade and Soul, with mailbag questions on returning to MMOs and love for Champs Online.
The Humble Bundle for the holidays is full of MMO goodness, including Guild Wars 2, Neverwinter, and Blade & Soul
So here's how the latest Humble Bundle is working. Drop $35 on the bundle and all of your money goes to charity, and you...
The Stream Team: Visiting Q’s Winter Wonderland in Star Trek Online
Have you fought a Kramp'Ihri? Massively OP's MJ hasn't. Star Trek Online introduced this new holiday horror, and MJ is taking her first trip...
