According to Atari’s financial documents, the game publisher “divesting” itself of MMO developers Cryptic Studios, which it acquired in 2008. It is reported that the reason why Atari is selling the studio that created of Star Trek Online and Champions Online is the studio is unprofitable and has cost the game publisher millions of dollars. [...]

Atari and Cryptic Studios has announced that their superhero MMORPG Champions Online will be follow the Free to Play MMORPG model starting 2011. I played Champions Online when it came out and while it was fun, gameplay issues and grinding forced me out just after a few months. By adopting the Free to play model, [...]

Is the Neverwinter Nights franchise being turned into an MMO by no less than the developer of Champions Online and Star Trek Online, Cryptic Studios? The rumor comes from Variety’s typically reliable Cut Scene blog, which cites a number of unnamed “sources.” Those same sources believe the game will drop off Cryptic’s increasingly productive MMO [...]