Disambiguation:
– Perfect World Entertainment (PWE), a video game publisher
– Perfect World International, a video game by PWE
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The Daily Grind: Do you start over when you come back to an MMO?
In looking over my history with MMORPGs this year, one trend leaps out at me: In pretty much every old favorite that I returned...
The Daily Grind: What was the most painful MMO sunset of 2018?
I have a feeling I know what the answer to this question is going to be for a lot of folks - WildStar is...
Torchlight Frontiers recaps the progress of its second alpha test
The second alpha for Torchlight Frontiers has guttered to a close, and it turns out that the players involved were fools of the highest order...
Global Chat: A WildStar goodbye
How do you say farewell to an MMO that meant a lot to you? With tears, sorrow, screenshots, and words. Lots and lots of...
The MOP Up: Echo of Soul returns
Korean MMO Echo of Soul is now back on Steam early access after the title was shut down back around 2015 and 2016. It's...
Perfect Ten: MMOs to watch in 2019
The MMO genre is in a strange and uncertain place right now -- but also one that is quietly thrilling. We've long passed the...
The Game Archaeologist: Neverwinter Nights 1 & 2
At the end of June 2014, dozens of online worlds flickered and vanished with the flip of a switch. It was a online apocalypse...
Neverwinter, Star Trek Online, Champions Online, and more PWE MMOs outline their Christmas events
PWE is dropping festive sprinkles of snow all over its MMORPGs for Christmas this year.
In Star Trek Online, Q's Winter Wonderland is already live,...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2018
It's become a tradition on Massively OP to include among our end-of-the-year roundups and editorials and retrospectives a run-down of our favorite - and least favorite - MMO dev quotes of the year, be they obscure, poignant, or just plain dumb. So once again, for this week's Massively Overthinking, I've asked our staff to offer up those quotes and then reflect on what we from the year and reflect on just what we've learned from them.
Ask Mo: The hits and misses of Massively OP’s 2018 predictions
As we do every year, today we're going to peek back at the horrifying outcomes of last year's MOP staff predictions for the genre and the games within it to determine how well we did. After all, what would be the fun of making predictions if we couldn't giggle over our guesses a year later?
So did we nail it or fail it? And did you fare better? Let's find out.
Torchlight Frontiers’ Dusk Mage harnesses both dark and light
Don't call it Twilight anything -- the Dusk Mage has her own non-vampire thing happening. The most recent of Torchlight Frontiers' classes to be...
Perfect Ten: The healthiest live MMORPGs at the end of 2018
Another year is coming to a close! That means we're doing all of our usual end-of-year recaps, and that also means that we're once...
The Daily Grind: Do you ever worry that an MMO you’re watching will be shuttered before it’s done?
It's possible I've been doing this too long and have just seen a whole lot of casually delivered bad news on Twitter from gaming...
One Shots: Hobbit herbal hobbies
If Hobbits are seen as being generally lazy creatures that gobble up their weight in food every day, then how come they have such...
The MOP Up: Neverwinter comes under siege
The Cult of the Dragon is throwing the city (and game) of Neverwinter under siege once more, and players are going to need to...
Torchlight Frontiers gears up for another alpha test
Following a fun and frisky first closed alpha test, Torchlight Frontiers is ready to dive right back into it. Alpha 2 is on its...
Perfect World Entertainment confirms Steam China deal
Earlier this year, we reported on the surprise announcement that Perfect World Entertainment was in talks with Valve to bring Steam into China. It's...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO news stories of 2018
With the turn of every new year, I know we are entering unexplored territory in the field of MMO news. No matter what we...
The MOP Up: Star Trek Online engages Battle at the Binary Stars
Continuing with its push deeper into the Age of Discovery arc, Star Trek Online has warped in the Battle at the Binary Stars task...
Massively OP’s guide to MMO Thanksgiving 2018
Unlike with Halloween and Christmas, it seems like MMORPG developers never quite know what to do with the Thanksgiving holiday. Vastly fewer games celebrate...