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The Game Archaeologist: The Sims Online
The Sims Online was one of the odder entrants into the MMO genre, an online iteration of an immensely popular game franchise that promised...
Star Trek Online details its upcoming fleet armadas
The latest Star Trek Online dev blog talks up the sci-fi MMO's forthcoming fleet armada system. Lead programmer Daniel Razza says that the improvements...
Fleet veteran heavy destroyers coming to Star Trek Online
Star Trek Online lead systems designer Phil Zeleski has penned a new dev blog concerning fleet veteran heavy destroyers. These tier six vessels will...
Star Trek Online shows off upcoming Tier 6 Battlecruisers
You can upgrade older ships in Star Trek Online, but your upgraded Tier 5 Battlecruiser just isn't the same as a Tier 6 version...
The Game Archaeologist: Seven MMOs operating on borrowed time
Most everyone who knows me well will acknowledge that I'm not generally a cynical, dark person. I'm not rooting for games to fail, for...
Star Trek Online’s newest feature episode is live
Star Trek Online's newest feature episode awaits, according to an official tweet this morning that signified the end of the patch maintenance period. Cryptic...
One Shots: Bagpipes in the woods
I can't say that I'm the biggest fan of bagpipe music, although I do harbor a certain fascination for any musical instrument that looks...
Steam’s summer sale offers mad MMO deals [Updated Monday]
Prepare your wallets to go broke and your libraries to fill to the brim with games that you'll never have time to play, for...
Star Trek Online is rolling out new Tier 6 Veteran ships
Lifetime and veteran subscribers for Star Trek Online have long had access to a special ship that shows off their elite status. Unfortunately, the...
The Daily Grind: Should mature MMOs consider crowdfunding?
Massively OP commenter The_Grand_Nagus recently pointed us to a conversation on the Star Trek Online forum where a Cryptic Studios employee discussed the studio's games' revenues...
Star Trek Online’s Lohlunat Festival kicks off
Summer fun starts now in Star Trek Online, as the annual Lohlunat Festival kicks off for another year of flying around, riding powerboards, and...
Star Trek Online highlights summer events, addresses klesbiangate
Summer comes yet again, and while the distinction is kind of arbitrary in deep space, for those of us pretending to be in deep...
Star Trek Online flame wars erupt over gay backdrop NPCs
The most recent featured episode for Star Trek Online stirred up some controversy because it's all about gay Klingons. By which we of course...
Massively Overthinking: When IPs are wasted on mediocre MMOs
This week's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from Kickstarter donor Aldranis, whose query neatly dovetails with the IP-related question we answered on the...
Star Trek Online gets new featured episode, weekly rewards
Cryptic has announced that Star Trek Online's latest featured episode is available to all captains engaged in the Iconian War. You'll join House Pegh and...
Captain Nog joins the Star Trek Online cast
In the first episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Commander Sisko tells Jake not to hang around with that Ferengi boy Nog. He's...
Star Trek Online Iconian War featured episode delayed
The Iconian War is hot stuff in Star Trek Online these days, but players will need to cool their heels due to a "critical...
Star Trek Online explains the big shift in event currencies
Star Trek Online is doing something new with its summer event this year by shifting currencies in a big way. This has caused a...
How Star Trek Online constructs its new pilot ships
The newest ships in Star Trek Online are all based around making players feel like that piloting specialization was a good expenditure of time...
Star Trek Online interviews Voyager veterans and Season 10 voice actors
Star Trek Online's Season 10: The Iconian War adds franchise veterans Robert Duncan McNeill and Lisa LoCicero to the fold. McNeill and LoCicero will...
