PC Gaming Weekly: Magic in the making at Cryptic and Perfect World

Perfect World and Cryptic Studios are brewing some new magic — and it could result in the biggest massively multiplayer online role-playing game since The Elder Scrolls Online debuted in 2014.

Yesterday, Wizards of the Coast announced that it’s tapping Perfect World and Cryptic Studios for Magic: The Gathering’s first MMO. Wizards publishes the Magic card game and Dungeons & Dragons, and this is the first time in the franchise’s 24-year history that it’s getting an RPG (it’s appeared as either a real-time strategy game or a digital card game). With more than 20 million players and millions more who know the brand, a Magic MMO could hit the market with a bang.