Neverwinter was originally supposed to be a co-operative online RPG but after the purchase of developer Cryptic Studios by Chinese publisher Perfect World, Neverwinter will become a full-scale, free-to-play MMO. Neverwinter’s change of direction has meant a delay until the tail-end of 2012, IGN reported. The free-to-play Neverwinter MMO will use a twitchy combat system [...]

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, [...]

Star Trek Online and Champions Online developer Cryptic scores another big RPG franchise to be transformed into an MMORPG with Bioware’s Neverwinter Nights. It has been rumored that Cryptic is developing a Dungeons and Dragons MMO or at least a new fantasy themed multiplayer online game and it looks like it is going to be [...]

Check out Champions Online’s content for October: Blood Moon Rising!   There is a chill wind blowing through Millennium City. It’s late October and the moon has taken on a sinister aspect, staining the sky a bloody red. The superhero Witchcraft, of the Champions, warns that this is a dire portent of an approaching mystical [...]

The Champions Online Open Beta has started and as with any MMO, we are getting a new pacth for bug fixing and other enhancements. Players have been experiencing issues downloading and patching the game but do you expect with 40K+ people downloading the patch and or client at the same time. Check out my first [...]

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 [...]