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Perfect World is putting Xbox One multiplayer battler Gigantic on Windows beyond Microsoft’s app store

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
May 11, 2016
2 min

One of the Xbox One’s most interesting-looking free-to-play games is also coming to nearly every active version of Windows thanks to a new partnership....

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Star Trek Online’s next expansion takes players back to the original series

Posted byby Mike Minotti
May 5, 2016
1 min

Publisher Perfect World revealed Agents of Yesterday today, the third expansion for Star Trek: Online. It allows players to create a captain and command a ship in the same timeline as the original Star Trek series (you know, the one with Spock and Kirk from the ’60s). It launches this summer for PC.

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Let’s celebrate Leonard Nimoy’s contributions to video games

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 27, 2015
2 min

We look back at the voice roles Leonard Nimoy gave the world of gaming.

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10 games that couldn’t kill World of Warcraft

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 26, 2014
6 min

We look at 10 MMOs that couldn't come close to beating World of Warcraft during it's decade of dominance.

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Star Trek Online publisher to invest $100M in Chinese MMO publisher Shanda

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
April 21, 2014
2 min

The Chinese publisher responsible for Star Trek Online is looking to spend some cash in its home country to expand its business.

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China’s Perfect World quietly becomes a North American powerhouse in online games (interview)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 16, 2012
12 min

Perfect World is making its move into the Western online gaming markets.

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Dragons, dinosaurs, and Transformers: RuneScape’s CEO on the future of free to play

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 28, 2012
4 min

Free to play is the future of gaming, even for traditional game publishers, according to Jagex Games Studio CEO Mark Gerhard. He talks to GamesBeat about the rush to the free-to-play model, Jagex's potential market value, and the development of upcoming MMO Transformers Universe.

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Free-to-play games catching MMO subscribers’ attention (and wallets)

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 21, 2012
2 min

The successful launch of Star Wars: The Old Republic notwithstanding, the business model of mandatory subscriptions for massively multiplayer online (MMO) games seems to...

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Atari sells Star Trek Online maker Cryptic Studios to Perfect World

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 31, 2011
1 min

Atari has sold off Cryptic Studios, the maker of online games such as Star Trek Online, to China’s Perfect World. Perfect World is paying...

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Online game firm Gazillion names former Cryptic chief as new CEO

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 11, 2011
2 min

There’s a new gazillionaire in town. Online gaming firm Gazillion Entertainment has hired John Needham, former head of Cryptic Studios, as its new chief...

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