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PvE stands for player-vs.-environment, where environment is generally taken to mean the world, NPCs, and AI.

The Soapbox: Lies I was told about World of Warcraft

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A few months back, I was feeling restless in my MMO routine. Guild Wars 2 is my MMO "home," so I'm always in that...
The Doom Brigade

The Burning Crusade Classic turns the level cap to 70 and adds tutorials to boost characters

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It's time to test out the apex of power in WoW Classic's first expansion, as the beta for The Burning Crusade Classic has just raised the...

Swords of Legends Online is a Chinese action MMORPG heading to the west this summer

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Out of all of the MMORPGs we're waiting to come to our neck of the woods from Asian territories, this one is certainly a...
Never over.

Perfect Ten: How The Burning Crusade changed World of Warcraft forever

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We're kind of thinking about the first World of Warcraft expansion around these parts this week. No particular reason, especially in my case; I'm not...

Choose My Adventure: Getting invested in RIFT’s Instant Adventures

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So, before we begin, this is what happened with one of the polls: a dead-even split between doing Instant Adventures and following the breadcrumb...

Casually Classic: Three things I’m anticipating (and three I’m dreading) for WoW’s Burning Crusade Classic

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With the Burning Crusade Classic beta underway, it's hard not to be dwelling on the near future of WoW Classic. Everyone's maneuvering their accounts,...

Fight or Kite: For Honor is still the only viking vs. samurai vs. knight game for me

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Many moons ago, in the simpler times of 2017, Ubisoft delivered a fantastical game that sought to bring a close to the question all...
Roar.

Wisdom of Nym: Reacting to the latest Final Fantasy XIV live letter

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The one down side to Square's most recent live letter was the simple reality that it didn't get to deliver on the tradition of...

Massively on the Go: Mother Nintendo should make Niantic Earthbound

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So, Nintendo and Niantic will work together for more AR games based on Nintendo IPs. No great surprise from me, as I'd mentioned years...
You deserve what you got.

Darkfall Rise of Agon launches in China as the western version revives player cities

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Remember back in February when the two devs working on Darkfall Rise of Agon announced they were making a huge move: partnering with an...
It just keeps happening.

WoW Factor: We’re waiting how long for Shadowlands’ patch 9.1, now?

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So it looks like World of Warcraft's next patch is going up for testing on the week of April 12th. What the heck is happening? At...
Ideation!

Final Fantasy XIV shows off a trailer for patch 5.5, Death Unto Dawn

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The next patch for Final Fantasy XIV is not far off at this point, arriving on April 13th, and players can now feast their...

Stick and Rudder: Five potentially stupid yet fun Elite Dangerous spaceship builds

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Even though I've logged a total of 112 hours of Elite: Dangerous at the time of this writing, I'm still pretty much a noob...
Oh snaps.

World of Warcraft will start testing patch 9.1 soon, unveils a world buff storage device for Classic

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It's been an unusually long time since the launch of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands for the game to have not released its first major patch...

EverQuest II dives into the Plane of Shadows with this week’s content drop

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The days may be getting longer, but that only means that the shadows are increasing in force. Yesterday, EverQuest II dared its players to...
I'm sure it's a coincidence.

Casually Classic: In defense of a good ‘looking for group’ tool in World of Warcraft

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While World of Warcraft certainly made a number of questionable design decisions over the years, for my money one of the absolute best moves...

Last Oasis Season 3 breaks the map into Small Realms and brings the survival sandbox to Xbox Game Preview

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It's been one year since the woodpunk survival sandbox Last Oasis arrived to early access, and this time around the devs at Donkey Crew...

Tencent is launching multiplayer survival game Undawn on PC and mobile this year

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Did the world need another multiplayer survival title? Maybe not, but nobody's gonna be sad to get a good one from a solid publisher...

Aion NA is offering players a limited-time free boost to level 80

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Let's say you're curious about what's been happening at the tippy-top end of Aion, but you're not exactly keen on climbing the 80 levels...
Faces.

Massively Overthinking: What are your MMO character customization dealbreakers?

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Back in February, when BlizzConline was at its height, part of the World of Warcraft community lost its mind over the revelation that Blizzard...

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