Our latest coverage of Neverwinter.
It's been a rough few weeks for those who are still using Windows XP, which has been around for over 15 years now. First, Blizzard Entertainment drops support for the platform and now, both Neverwinter and Star Trek Online have dropped support for "Windows XP and Direct3D9" and "Video Cards with a Direct3D Hardware Feature Level less than 10.0"—you can find the [...]
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In celebration of the launch of Neverwinter's latest expansion, The Cloaked Ascendancy, we have partnered with Cryptic Studios and Perfect World Entertainment to give away 50 codes for Aberrant Gorgon mounts. These are rare mounts that have a 110% mounted movement speed buff and three Insignia slots. You can find the full set of details in the images embedded below. [...]
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It seems like the only thing more contested than thrones in high fantasy media is pineapple on pizza. Today brings with it Neverwinter's latest expansion, The Cloaked Ascendancy, and it tasks players with stopping "a group of four mages ripped from the Cloak Tower during the Spellplague" from attempting to steal the throne from Lord Neverember. In order to do [...]
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Here in the West, Perfect World Entertainment has all but stopped releasing the MMORPGs that it develops for the Chinese market, such as the latest version of Jade Dynasty, which is known as "Zhu Xian 3" in China, and Mount Shu Chronicles. Instead, it has focused on a strict model of obtaining the publishing rights for, and often the companies [...]
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Neverwinter's Spellplague Caverns dungeon has been in-game for some time now; it's currently available as a leveling dungeon. The one thing that it's always been missing, however, is a Master version, which is going to be going live with The Cloaked Ascendancy. Today, Cryptic Studios gave us a look at what the new version will look like. As Cryptic has [...]
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After several teasers in which we had no idea what it was called, Cryptic Studios and Perfect World Entertainment have unveiled that Neverwinter's next expansion is called "The Cloaked Ascendancy" and it will be launching on PC on February 21st. The story of The Cloaked Ascendancy is as follows. The Spellplague continues to cast a shadow over Neverwinter, as four [...]
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In a new developer blog, Cryptic Studios divulged new details about Neverwinter's upcoming zone, the River District. Unlike some of the game's other locales, both the River District and the campaign that takes place within it were "designed with player choice in mind." This, of course, could mean a number of things, but in the case of Neverwinter's River District, it [...]
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In a developer blog that went out today, Cryptic Studios previewed Neverwinter's next expansion, which is as yet unnamed. The expansion will introduce a new adventure zone, the River District, that will feature "a new campaign with alternate ways towards completion." The River District is described as follows. Lord Neverember has made good his claim to reclaim and expand upon [...]
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The My.com Launcher is no longer the only MMO-focused gaming platform with integrated streaming capabilities. Perfect World Entertainment announced today that its Arc Games platform has been updated with a new feature called Arc Streaming, allowing anyone with a Twitch account to stream games on the Arc Games platform using the Arc client. It even lets you set the name of [...]
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It's that time of year again. The air is getting colder. The last of the leaves are falling off of the trees that aren't evergreens. Perhaps the ground is already blanketed in a light layer of snow—unless you live here, in which case it never is. That means that it's also almost time for Winter events in MMORPGs and Perfect [...]
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