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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Champions Online surprises us with a new fire archetype
It always seems such a shame that Champions Online's free-to-play model leans so hard on preset archetype builds instead of allowing everyone to build...
Perfect World Entertainment sprinkles holiday events across its library
With so many Christmas events popping up this month, there's no time nor space to spread them out. Perfect World Entertainment seems to think...
Perfect Ten: The healthiest live MMORPGs at the end of 2017
As Counting Crows told us, it's been a long December, although the fact that it has also only just started being December speaks to...
Star Trek Online celebrates Christmas with giant nerf guns
No matter what the stardate, it's Christmas season for Star Trek fans, and that means a few things. For starters, it's time to dig...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 146: World of Warcraft’s fun police
Justin and Bree discuss Marvel Heroes' death, Darkfall New Dawn, LOTRO 2018, Neverwinter Nights, WoW's fun police, DDO, Hearthstone, and Trove, with mailbag discussions on Disney the lockbox villain and the max we'd pay for MMO subscriptions.
Massively OP’s guide to MMO Thanksgiving 2017
Stately resting between the gaudy purple and orange of Halloween and merry red and green of Christmas is the earth tone-saturated Thanksgiving. While no...
Perfect World Entertainment gives Blacklight: Retribution back to its developer
Usually, when we talk about a company giving up a game that it is publishing, it includes phrases like "shutdown." But that's not what's...
Neverwinter Nights’ new enhanced edition will support old modules
It's the thing to do lately: rerelease a classic video game with just enough enhancements to charge for it all over again. In this...
Enter to win a trio of Star Trek Online console factional starter packs from PWE and MOP
In honor of the launch of Star Trek Online Season 14: Emergence on console last week, PWE has granted Massively OP a bunch of goodies to raffle...
The MOP Up: Osiris New Dawn’s terrifying space ghosts (November 19, 2017)
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...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO would you recommend to Marvel Heroes refugees?
So Marvel Heroes has about six weeks to live thanks to the impending shutdown of the game following Disney's decision to drop Gazillion as...
Perfect Ten: A list of all the MMORPGs I supposedly hate
Did you know about all the MMOs I hate? I sure as heck didn't! I mean, I knew there were a few games I...
Masangsoft casts rez on RaiderZ
Can't kill the Z! RaiderZ, that is. Masangsoft is apparently trying to resuscitate the title, which sunsetted under PWE's banner in 2015.
"Masangsoft have been...
Neverwinter developers are addressing random queue issues
There are some random queue issues in Neverwinter at the moment. By this, we mean that the issues are with the random queue, not...
The Daily Grind: What older MMO systems do you wish devs would upgrade?
Perhaps few things bug me so much as when developers introduce a meaty gameplay system into an MMORPG only to neglect or abandon it...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 143: BlizzCon strikes back
Justin and Bree discuss BlizzCon, WoW's Battle for Azeroth expansion and legacy servers, Marvel Heroes' drama, the fate of Motiga and Runic, DCUO, WildStar, Kritika, and Wild West Online, with a mailbag question on MMOs that lock classes and races behind paywalls.
The MOP Up: Eden Falling brings the turn-based apocalypse (November 5, 2017)
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...
PWE confirms Motiga layoffs and Runic Games closure, but MOBA Gigantic will stay up
Last night, we reported on multiple employees and former employees' allusions to the closure of Motiga Games, the studio behind MOBA Gigantic. "Today marks the...
Rumor: Motiga, the studio behind Gigantic, is closing down
Multiple employees and former employees are tweeting tonight alluding to the closure of Motiga Games, the studio behind MOBA Gigantic.
"Today marks the end of...
Star Trek Online tells a scary story for Halloween
Despite its utopian idealism, Star Trek isn't a stranger to the occasional scary tale or horror-themed outing. Captains in Star Trek Online have faced...
