Cryptic Studios

PC

Retired Captains Can Now Play Star Trek Online For Free

9:15AM January 6, 2012 | Mike Fahey

Players with a lapsed subscription to Cryptic’s Star Trek Online can come back an play the game at no cost today as part of the free-to-play early start program. Everyone else can play for free come January 17.


News

World’s Most Famous Dark Elf Carves A Path To Neverwinter

8:00AM October 5, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Hoping to capture the attention of both traditional pen-and-paper role-players and video game RPG fans, Wizards of the Coast wants to put the city of Neverwinter on the minds of fantasy fans everywhere. That’s why they’ve called in the big guns: author R.A. Salvatore and his most famous creation, Drizzt Do’Urden. More »


PC

What Free-To-Play Means To Star Trek Online Players

4:20AM September 7, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Late last week it was revealed that Cryptic Studios’ massively multiplayer Star Trek Online would be going free-to-play later this year, swapping required subscription fees for an active player base. Today we find out what’s free and what’ll have players reaching for their gold-pressed latinum. More »


PC

You Don’t Have To Pay For City Of Heroes Anymore

7:30AM June 22, 2011 | Michael McWhertor

Superhero MMO City of Heroes is killing its monthly fee with the advent of City of Heroes Freedom as the game transitions from subscription-based model to a new, free to play one. More »


PC

Even The Giant Flesh-Hungry Spiders Look Pretty In Neverwinter

10:45AM June 8, 2011 | Mike Fahey

The Forgotten Realms depicted in this new trailer and screenshots for Cryptic Studios’ online co-op role-playing game Neverwinter could have been torn from the scribble pad I kept next to my character sheet back in my Dungeons & Dragons days. More »


News

Atari Dumps City Of Heroes, Star Trek Online Devs Cryptic

8:00AM May 18, 2011 | Michael McWhertor

Publisher Atari is “divesting” itself of MMO specialists Cryptic Studios, which it snapped up in 2008. It’s trying to sell the creators of Star Trek Online and Champions Online after losing Atari millions. [Atari Results (PDF)]


In Real Life

Watch A Video Game Being Made In Seven Minutes

1:30PM February 5, 2011 | Owen Good

Three developers from Cryptic Studios participated in last weekend’s Global Game Jam, the festival that challenges participants to create a game from scratch in just 48 hours. They built this time-lapse video, compressing two days of work into seven minutes. More »


News

Return To Neverwinter In 2011

12:40AM August 24, 2010 | Mike Fahey

Atari and Cryptic Studios return to the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons setting next year with Neverwinter, an online co-op role-playing game based on an upcoming series of novels from R.A. Salvatore. More »


News

Bill Roper Departs Cryptic

10:45PM August 18, 2010 | Brian Ashcraft

Bill Roper — one of the forces behind Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo — defected to Cryptic Studios back in 2008 to work on Champions Online and Star Trek. He has recently stated that he’s leaving Cryptic, but hasn’t given specifics. More »


News

Better Days To Die Coming To Star Trek Online

8:20AM March 18, 2010 | Mike Fahey

newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.youtube.com/v/r6Uk7H-WvCA&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22","customParams":[] ,"width":570,"height":412,"ratio":0.824,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"youtube"} );

For Klingons, every day is a good day to die, but you might want to wait until Cryptic slips the new Klingon player-versus-enemy content into Star Trek Online, as seem in part two of the Expanding Universe video series. More »