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Star Trek Online’s 33rd season, Unveiled, is live today for the game’s 15th birthday
As promised, Star Trek Online's Unveiled season - the MMORPG's 33rd since launch - is officially live on PC today, only a smidge past...
DECA games finally addresses Star Trek Online playerbase following Cryptic’s forced exit
Ever since Embracer announced that it was moving Cryptic's MMORPG operations from Cryptic to smol bean European studio DECA, the playerbases of Star Trek...
Massively Overthinking: MMOs that suck in interesting ways
This week's Massively Overthinking is entirely inspired by a fantastic argument made by YouTuber on Bluesky. Iron Pineapple declared that "a good game can...
Star Trek Online has begun giving out anniversary gifts ahead of its 15th birthday
It has been quite a rough year for Star Trek Online this time around, but the game's anniversary is almost here once again, and...
Jonathan Del Arco helms Star Trek Online’s 33rd season, Unveiled, launching February 11
Everyone's worried about the future of Cryptic's MMOs post-Cryptic, including us, but Star Trek Online is forging onward into 2025 with the promise of...
Star Trek Online kicks off the 2025 event campaign with its No-Win Scenario
Despite the name of the event being No-Win Scenario, there is actually a win condition for Star Trek Online players participating in its event...
The MOP Up: RIFT gets some surprising API improvements
Already we're checking off the "something positive happens for RIFT" square in our 2025 bingo card, as Gamigo's team invested some time improving the...
Star Trek Online reactivates its Feast event for consoles, gives a T6 ship to PC players
Getting invited to a feast is almost always welcome -- unless you yourself are the main dish and aren't even getting tipped for delivery...
End-of-Year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2025
I am the sort of person who derives no small amount of ongoing satisfaction from the idea that I have had an influence upon...
Star Trek Online artist Taco officially departs Cryptic Studios after nearly 20 years
It's going to be really, really hard to fill the void that 20 years' worth of knowledge developing Star Trek Online creates, but that's...
The MOP Up: Star Trek Online surprises fans with Spacedock revamp
Star Trek Online delivered a small surprise this past week with visual improvements to its iconic Spacedock: "In essence, we’re replacing the exterior System...
The Daily Grind: Which game or studio made the biggest contribution to killing the MMORPG genre in 2024?
So here's another fun annual Daily Grind that always gets people good and angry. And believe it or not, I'm not going to nominate...
Choose My Adventure: All of the MMOs you made us play in 2024
This past year was full of ups and downs. You could arguably say that about any year, sure, but I felt it much more...
Star Trek Online will engage every single Red Alert event at once on December 31
Generally, a ship entering red alert in Star Trek is a semi-rare occurrence, signaling that things are getting a bit more tense and dangerous....
Choose My Adventure: Wrapping up Victory is Life and wrapping my head around a new ship in Star Trek Online
Well, this final Choose My Adventure for this year has certainly been a journey. For a couple of reasons. First, I've gotten through the...
The MOP Up: Guild Wars 2’s community shows off amazing player housing creations
It's no surprise that Guild Wars 2 players are thrilled to be interior decorators, thanks to this year's player housing system. And in a...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025
This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...
The MOP Up: New World pulls back the curtains on its holiday event
New World's devs shared the inspiration behind the hodge-podge holiday event in the game, saying, "Our Audio and Narrative Teams took inspiration from various...
Star Trek Online’s creepy Hearts and Minds mission returns this weekend to mark Friday the 13th
Today is Friday the 13th and that's reason enough for Star Trek Online to try to squick out its players by pulling the Hearts...
Choose My Adventure: Tiny ship takes on big battles in Star Trek Online
I didn't have a whole heap of time to myself in Star Trek Online this week, but considering that I was basically told to...