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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The MOP Up: Neverwinter’s green beetle fiasco (May 21, 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...
Neverwinter’s Shroud of Souls takes to consoles on June 20
The undead are rising, an alternate version of the city of Neverwinter opens its doors, and the challenges for MMO players never let up....
Choose My Adventure: Getting started in Neverwinter
There are games that simply do not hold up past the demo, and frankly I've played a lot of those in Boston. Usually those are...
Battle Bards Episode 98: Perfect World International
Perfect World — it’s not just a massive games publisher, it’s also an MMORPG! The team at Battle Bards timidly tiptoe into this unknown...
Star Trek Online brings Season 13 to consoles next month, teases T6 light cruisers
Cryptic's console crowd must know by know that it takes a month, give or take, for a PC update to make its way over to...
Neverwinter to be part of D&D’s June story reveal event
Wizards of the Coast is putting out the call for streamers, movers, and shakers to assemble in Seattle, WA on June 2nd and 3rd...
Choose My Adventure: Getting started in Neverwinter
Oh boy, Neverwinter! I am legitimately excited about this cycle's Choose My Adventure pick, in no small part because the only reason I have...
Star Trek Online talks about Season 13 combat balance, triggers console event
If you didn't catch it, Star Trek Online's recent Season 13 update contained more than just another fancy featured episode. The systems team used...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 116: Bree’s virtual garage sale
Justin and Bree discuss Ashes of Creation, Blizzard, Darkfall Rise of Agon, Guild Wars 2, Marvel Heroes, WildStar, Neverwinter, SWTOR, and Ultima Online, with a mailbag question on sandbox MMOs.
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs would you include among the greatest RPGs of all time?
Massively OP reader Francois recently pointed us to IGN's Top 100 RPGs of All Time, which we thought was worth a nod since unlike...
Razer partners up with Neverwinter for cross-promotional rewards
Do you like Razer products? Do you like playing Neverwinter? Do you eat beans with George Wendt? If you answered yes to the first...
Transgender gamers face crass rejection by CS:GO tournament organizers [Updated]
This article has been updated as apparently it was all part of an elaborate, horrific, and completely unfunny fraud/hoax perpetrated on the e-sports and...
One Shots: Lonely hearts
Are gamers really lonely? Do we flock to MMORPGs as a response to that? I'm pondering these thoughts today following the response of a...
Choose My Adventure: Wrapping up Black Desert and selecting our next destination
Back when I mentioned that I was learning to like Black Desert a while back, I got this tweet from the game's official account....
Champions Online’s new sale is a wink and a nod to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Marvel Heroes isn't the only MMO taking advantage of the launch of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 this weekend. Or maybe it's...
Enter to win a Star Trek Online PC 26th Century Heavy Dreadnought or Mirror Universe Danube-Class Runabout!
Star Trek Online's Season 13: Escalation launched for PC last week, and that means we have goodies for PC players! PWE has granted Massively OP...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 115: Legendary podcasting
Justin and Bree discuss Ashes of Creation, Guild Wars 1 and 2, Star Trek Online, FFXIV, Neverwinter, WoW addons, Kingdom of Loot, and City of Heroes, with mailbox questions on MMO tourist mode and character creation inspiration.
Neverwinter’s Shroud of Souls update is now live on PC
Shroud of Souls is live in Neverwinter today as promised -- at least if you're on PC. Console folks, you'll be waiting a bit...
Neverwinter shows off the features of the Great Hall
Ah, the Great Hall! It's the place in Neverwinter where your guild hatches all of its greatest schemes, gathers and laughs about victories won,...
PSA: Champions Online’s freeform slots are half-off
If you haven't picked up Champions Online as a free player, you might not know that the game restricts unfettered character creation for F2P....
