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Star Trek Online now has a time-unlimited free trial
Star Trek Online has just started offering a new kind of free trial, where you can play for as long as you like. Instead of limiting your time, they restrict you to the tutorial and first mission of...
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Champions Online is going free to play
Cryptic’s superhero MMO Champions Online will be free to play as of early next year. You’ll be able to download the client, create a hero and jump into Millenium City without having to worry about...
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Make your own missions in Star Trek Online
Cryptic Studios, creators of City of Heroes and Champions Online, are gearing up to release the Foundry toolset to players of space borne MMO Star Trek Online. The toolset will allow players to create...
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Star Trek Online could go free-to-play, Champions to get mission creator
Cryptic announced recently that Champions Online will be going free-to-play early next year, and many immediately wondered if their other MMO title, Star Trek Online would follow suit. Cryptic’s boss,...
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Champions Online selling Lifetime Subscriptions
Cryptic Studios recently announced that Champions Online will be going free-to-play come the new year. Even so, they’ve just reintroduced a Lifetime Subscription that offers players permanent Gold...
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City of Heroes gets invasion in Issue 19: Alpha Strike
The Praetorian invasion has kicked off in City of Heroes with the arrival of Issue 19: Alpha Strike. The free update will add a series of new missions for level 20 players, as well as new animations...
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Star Trek Online Season 3 update adds Borg tech and mission creator
The latest free update to Star Trek Online has arrived, letting players loot high tech Borg components that can be slotted into Starships to make them Borg-awesome. The update also revamps sector...
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Champions Online now free-to-play
Cryptic’s Superhero MMO, Champions Online is now free to play. The latest patch includes an overhaul of almost every aspect of the game. Read on for the details. Speaking to tentonhammer, Executive...
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Star Trek Online anniversary trailer released, item sale to celebrate
Star Trek Online is one year old. To celebrate, Cryptic Studios have put out a trailer highlighting the many changes and additions made to the game since launch. There’s also a sale on, with 20% off...
View ArticleStar Trek Online gets Foundry mission editor
Who hasn’t wanted to put together their own Star Trek episode? That dream is about to come true, sort of. Cryptic have released the Foundry for Star Trek Online, a powerful set of editing tools that...
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Champions Online review
Champions Online’s move to free-to-play is very bad news for the criminals of Millennium City. My latest creation, Chill Valentine, is in the local park, icing top-hat-wearing goons with frost bolts....
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Atari to sell Cryptic studios
Atari’s yearly financial report shows that they are parting ways with Cryptic, the studio behind Star Trek Online, Champions Online and the upcoming Neverwinter MMO. The official reasons given for the...
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Star Trek Online to go free to play this year
Massively have spotted a statement on Seeking Alpha by the CEO of Perfect World, owner of Cryptic studios, that Star Trek Online will go free to play before the end of the year. Champions Online,...
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Star Trek Online free to play features detailed
We mentioned last week that Star Trek Online will be free to play before the year is out. Cryptic have just released more information about exactly what free players will and won’t have access to. All...
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City of Heroes Dev Diary: Rogues gallery
In the last installment of the City of Heroes dev diary, we got a look at the massive monsters of the First Ward zone, which demand a entire super-team of players to take down. But what about the mobs...
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Ex-Cryptic folks open Mob Rules, let fans decide first game
Conventional wisdom says the customer’s always right. (Conventional wisdom also says that carrots give you night vision super powers and Mr. Rogers had a Call of Duty-sized killstreak in Vietnam, but...
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Star Trek Online gets Season 5 update. Dilithium economy enabled
While everyone’s going doo-lally about Star Wars, another licensed sci-fi MMO based on a loved franchise is feeling sadly neglected, like an old dog who’s just had to give up his favourite basket...
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New Champions Online archetype isn’t a Sith lord, honest
He’s not a Sith Lord, he’s a Cosmic Knight. Champions Online’s archetypes offer players who don’t play a subscription fee pre-defined builds to level with. This one is called The Unleashed, and is...
View ArticleStar Trek Online sets phasers to F2P today
SWTOR’s shiny, soon-to-be-new tweaks may be hogging the spotlight, but it’s not the only space-faring MMO gearing up for a change of pace. Starting today, Star Trek Online is boldly going where, well,...
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Star Trek Online season four kicks off on Saturday, the Jem’Hadar are back
Star Trek Online’s following up on its recent relaunch as a free-to-play MMO with a new episode titled “the 2800,” which will start on Saturday. The new season of story quests will kick off with the...
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Exclusive reveal: Neverwinter’s CG PAX teaser trailer and screenshots
Cryptic’s upcoming Neverwinter game has undergone a lot of changes. Originally announced in 2010 as a small-scale co-op RPG, the game’s been blown out to a full-scale MMO and, from these first...
View ArticleChampions Online wants you to design a boss to fight
Massively have pointed us to an interesting competition over in Champions Online. Cryptic are asking players to design them a new Supervillain, which will then be used as a ten-man boss in one of...
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Neverwinter E3 hands-on preview
I spent about half an hour swording my way through a dungeon in Neverwinter at E3. I’m not a MMO player by trade, but I was mostly happy with how it looked and felt; the nearest comparison might be...
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Players rally in protest against City of Heroes’ closure
NCsoft’s decision to close Paragon Studios earlier this week consequently meant the shuttering of superhero MMO City of Heroes. That blow landed heavily among the community, but they’re striking back...
View ArticleNeverwinter Guardian class trailer shows diverse abilities, agile tanking...
Tanks are magical beings. For all their plate-metal tonnage and dinner table-sized shields, they somehow possess the agility to surge across a battlefield in a silvery blur, causing mini-earthquakes...
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Cryptic: Reviews “don’t do a great justice” to MMOs
Star Trek Online producer Dan Stahl spoke with [a]listdaily about well-known science-fiction franchises spearheading free-to-play MMOs and how the genre’s constantly shifting content isn’t in harmony...
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Cryptic decrypts Neverwinter’s Foundry system
Neverwinter‘s fantasy MMO foundation might stick to established norms we’re all used to–magic, medieval weaponry, hitting a 17-foot dragon in the shins, and so on–but its Foundry quest editor gives...
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EA, Cryptic, Riot discuss “dead” subscription models, free-to-play’s influence
GamesIndustry sat down with members of various studios for a lengthy exploration into the industry’s shifting perception of freemium game development, the climbing popularity of free-to-play MMO...
View ArticleNeverwinter Trickster Rogue class trailer shows sneaky stabbing, clever flanking
Neverwinter’s Trickster Rogue class carries all the properties of the archetypal dagger-wielding shadowmaster in MMORPG fare. Cryptic’s latest class video following the Guardian and Control Wizard...
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PC Gamer US issue #236: Neverwinter, plus an exclusive in-game item
The next issue of PC Gamer US features an exclusive hands-on with Neverwinter, modern successor to BioWare’s classic RPG. We visited Cryptic Studios to get direct impressions on the ambitious...
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Star Trek Online three-year anniversary beams up guest appearance by Denise...
Star Trek Online is about to boldly go into its third year since engaging back in early 2010, and from January 31 through February 14, players can take part in a celebratory episode called “Temporal...
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Neverwinter: we preview the F2P MMO bringing AD&D to a new generation
This preview originally appeared in issue 249 of PC Gamer UK. Written by Kat Bailey This isn’t the first time that Neverwinter has featured in an MMO. Back in 1991, AOL, Stormfront Studios and SSI...
View ArticleNeverwinter Control Wizard montage has a lot of fancy hand-waving
The Control Wizard is Neverwinter’s ranged juggler, a useful party member for poking enemies from afar with fingers of ice or a friendly buzz from a lightning bolt. Here’s a collection of moments...
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Neverwinter releases its open beta on April 30
Forgotten Realms based free-to-play MMO Neverwinter will open its doors to adventurers on April 30th. That’s when the open beta begins, signalling the awkward period in the free-to-play lifecycle...
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Affected by Neverwinter’s launch issues? Here are some workarounds
Online games almost always run into trouble during their grand launches, as us online gamers are only too aware. For many games, it’s the first time they’ve been introduced to such a wide audience,...
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Neverwinter invites you to its Whispering Caverns – it would be rude to say no
Neverwinter is here, and like the British summer it’s currently in open beta – meaning it suffers from the odd rain cloud now and again. Still, if you’re a fan of dungeons and/or dragons and/or free...
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Neverwinter details upcoming Campaign meta-quest system
Neverwinter’s first content expansion, Fury of the Feywild, is due out in “Summer 2013″. A quick look out of the window, at spontaneously roasting birds hurtling through the sky, suggests that its...
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