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High-Ranking Developers At Cryptic Studios Are Apparently Looking To Jump Ship

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Something ominous is afoot over at Cryptic Studios as several key members of the Star Trek Online and Neverwinter development team announced on LinkedIn yesterday that they were looking for new job opportunities. These developers include senior game designer Jesse Heinig, senior technical artist Chris Penny, gameplay engineer David Nishball, and senior community manager Mike Fatum, a.k.a. Ambassador Kael. While [...]

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Perfect World, THQ Nordic, And Cryptic Parent Embracer Group Donates $2M To Relief Efforts In Ukraine

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Over the past few days, various video game companies have been donating funds to help support humanitarian operations in Ukraine. Perfect World Entertainment, Cryptic Studios, and THQ Nordic’s parent company, Embracer Group, among them. The Swedish video game holding company and its CEO, Lars Wingefors, have announced that they will be donating a total of $2 million to aid relief [...]

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PWE Acquisition Report: Neverwinter Has Logged 20M+ Players And Made $400M+ To Date

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While Embracer Group are in the process of acquiring Perfect World Entertainment and its subsidiaries, the former has shed light on some interesting statistics about the latter’s portfolio of games. Of significant note are metrics from Cryptic Studios’ operational free-to-play and buy-to-play MMOs. Embracer’s acquisition report reveals Neverwinter to be Cryptic Studios’ biggest game with over 20 million players to [...]

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Perfect World Entertainment & Cryptic Studios To Be Acquired By Embracer Group And Gearbox

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Perfect World Entertainment and its subsidiaries, including Cryptic Studios, will soon be acquired by Swedish video game holding company Embracer Group AB, formerly Nordic Games, and Gearbox Entertainment. Once the $125 million deal goes through in February 2022, PWE will become a subsidiary of Gearbox and will continue to publish and develop games as they’ve done in the past with [...]

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Cryptic Studios Celebrates 20th Anniversary With Content Drops For Neverwinter And Star Trek Online

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Cryptic Studios is celebrating their 20th anniversary with content drops for Neverwinter and Star Trek Online along with free anniversary bundles for players. Champion Online players also get to claim an anniversary bundle by simply logging in to the game. “It’s a proud moment for all of us at Cryptic Studios, to be celebrating our twenty-year anniversary,” said Cryptic Studios [...]

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CD Projekt Red, Daybreak, And Other Studios Start Working From Home As The COVID-19 Virus Continues To Spread

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Here we are again with your daily dose of COVID-19-related gaming news. More and more video game companies have transitioned to a remote working setup as an increasing number of countries and states are put under strict lockdown to try and put a stop to the spread of the COVID-19 virus. These companies include Hi-Rez Studios, Rockstar Games, Jagex, ZeniMax [...]

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Cryptic Studios Will Be Disabling Cross-Game Chat In All Their Games On March 9

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The Foundry, a storehouse and creation tool for player-made content, and cross-game chat are highly-invaluable features unique to Cryptic Studios’ and Perfect World Entertainment’s MMORPGs. Unfortunately, Cryptic was forced to disable the Foundry in April last year due to lack of developers who had knowledge of maintaining it. Sadly, cross-game chat will soon be joining the Foundry in the features [...]

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