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How Neverwinter’s Maze Engine will ‘put the dungeons back in D&D’
Yesterday, Perfect World Entertainment announced Neverwinter's ninth expansion, The Maze Engine. Today, we're finding out the philosophy behind the update, or at least the...
Neverwinter announces ninth expansion, The Maze Engine
Perfect World Entertainment has just announced a new expansion for Neverwinter. Called The Maze Engine, the update will leap into the post-Underdark storyline and include...
Leaderboard: Massive servers vs. custom communities
One of the trends cropping up in the MMO industry in recent years is the Neverwinter Nights custom shard phenomenon. Games like Star Citizen,...
The Game Archaeologist: Perpetual’s Star Trek Online
If you're among the legions of Trekkies, then you are almost certainly aware of Cryptic Studios' Star Trek Online. Since early 2010, players have...
How MMO studios wield ‘YouTube influencers’
Kotaku has posted what it's calling "a behind-the-scenes peek at what it looks like when YouTubers shill for game companies." Perfect World Entertainment, well-known to...
Giveaway: Pick up a Forsaken World Volos pet and gift pack from PWE and MOP
Forsaken World's latest expansion, Awakening, went live earlier this week, and to celebrate, Perfect World has granted Massively OP a thousand key bundles to hand...
PWE’s 2014 wuxia MMORPG Swordsman Online lands on Steam
These days, if you're not on Steam, you're throwing money away, a lesson more and more MMORPG studios are learning lately. Perhaps that explains...
Star Trek Online details the benefits of the anniversary Krenim Science Vessel
The sixth anniversary of Star Trek Online is nearly upon players, complete with all of the requisite celebration events. That means plenty of little...
Perfect World Entertainment announces Livelock, a top-down cooperative shooter
How do you feel about robots shooting other robots? If you would rate your feelings in that department as "Strongly Positive" or better, you...
Perfect World toys with ‘Livelock’ twitter teases
Perfect World Entertainment is up to something. The company has retweeted a tease Twitter account, @PlayLivelock, which has been tweeting out sci-fi nonsense about...
The MOP Up: Metal Gear Online comes to PC (January 24, 2016)
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...
Star Trek Online celebrates its sixth anniversary with a time-travel episode and giveaways
Star Trek Online seems to be one of those MMOs that always does its anniversaries justice. As the game hits its sixth birthday this...
Fans are remaking RuneScape with Neverwinter Nights 2’s toolset
Most RuneScape fans would probably agree that Jagex's game is very fine indeed, but there are always those who look at an MMO and think,...
The Game Archaeologist: Online gaming service providers of the ’80s and ’90s
As graphical MMOs took off in the 1990s with the advent of games like Neverwinter Nights, The Realm, and Ultima Online, many of them...
Champions Online’s Teleios Ascendant update is on the way
PWE and Cryptic Studios have just announced that Champions Online's latest content update will land on the public test server today. It's called Teleios...
PWE shuts down World of Jade Dynasty for redevelopment
Perfect World Entertainment has decided that it will be going back to the drawing board with one of its newest titles.
The studio announced today...
Star Trek Online holds a recovery event for the rest of January
The galaxy of Star Trek Online has just finished dealing with a destructive war against a race of almost incalculable age and power. There's...
Forsaken World’s Awakening expansion launches next week
PWE's Forsaken World is due for another big update this month. Awakening, dubbed the game's 16th expansion by PWE, launches on January 20th and carries...
Neverwinter moves cosmetics from ZEN cash shop to lockbox currency
Back in October, PWE wrote about its plans to massively overhaul Neverwinter's Trade Bar Store -- that is, the special store where you can...
PSA: Champions Online lifetime subscriptions are on sale
Cryptic and PWE have announced that Champions Online lifetime subs are 33% off until January 21st, 2016 -- that's $199 instead of $299, if you...
