PvP stands for player-vs.-player. PvP can take the form of virtual combat, economic trade, political machinations, or other competition.
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Albion Online wings a week of extra time at players for DDOS disruptions
Albion Online emerges this week extremely battered and bruised after a prolonged series of DDOS attacks against the game and even demands for ransom...
Camelot Unchained lays the groundwork for NPCs
Bot battles is the phrase on everyone's lips over at Camelot Unchained as of late. The team said in this week's newsletter that it...
H1Z1: King of the Kill is due for a major combat upgrade
Did you forget H1Z1 is still in early access? We did not! The King of the Kill half in particular is still getting heavy...
Lost Ark’s Korean beta features boats, storms, and treasure hunting
When Lost Ark was first announced back in 2014 as basically the next generation of Diablo-clone in an MMO, I remember being straight-up grabby-hands...
Massively Overthinking: Is the popularity of small-scale co-op games hurting MMORPGs?
Gamasutra has an unusual piece from an Ubisoft developer this week arguing that co-op gameplay is the industry's rising midcore trend, one that he...
Crowfall adds the Gryphon to its bestiary
We have all played enough fantasy games at this point to know what a gryphon is. It's what happens when a bird and a...
Albion Online offers proof that it is still being DDOSed by RMT blackmailers
It's hard not to feel sorry for Albion Online.
As we've been reporting, the newbie sandbox has been absolutely plagued by a long series of nasty...
Signups begin for Hand of the Gods: SMITE Tactics’ Xbox One and PS4 alpha
Hi-Rez has just announced that its SMITE-spinoff online card battler Hand of the Gods: SMITE Tactics is launching on both Xbox One and PlayStation...
The Exiled invites you to test its limited-lives ‘survival mode’ for a free month
As The Exiled (formerly Das Tal) struggles to attract a large enough audience to sustain the game's development and operation, the team turns to...
Lineage Eternal delayed again, Guild Wars 2 mobile game teased
Steparu is reporting on a Korean-language piece today that suggests Lineage Eternal is once again in do-over mode. According to the report, NCsoft has gutted...
Albion Online’s DDOS blackmail saga continues
I've more than once joked with our writers and readers that Massively OP is not an uptime monitor, but we're making a special exception...
EVE Evolved: A massive war for revenge is brewing in EVE Online
Just over a year ago, the largest PvP conflict in gaming history kicked off in EVE Online as war erupted between the game's most prominent...
Crowfall tests an itty-bitty teeny-weeny campaign map
Judge not Crowfall by its pre-alpha size, will you?
Let's hope not, because for the sake of testing the team is cramming players together in...
Indie sandbox MMO Tree of Life officially launches on August 17, won’t include PvE-only servers
Here comes another MMO emerging from early access! We're talking about Korean sandbox import Tree of Life, which hit beta last year following a...
Albion Online hit with ransom demand during weekend DDOS outages
On Saturday, we reported on a series of nasty DDOS attacks on the newly launched PvP sandbox Albion Online, which unfortunately continued throughout the...
The MOP Up: SMITE’s bad news bears (August 6, 2017)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
SWTOR urges PvPers to act fast to secure Season 8 rewards
While many Star Wars: The Old Republic players might be looking forward to Game Update 5.4 later this month for its PvE offerings, the...
Camelot Unchained will invite beta 1 backers to big bot battle testing next week
In the future, alpha testers (and everyone else) will all be fully replaced by robots, no doubt. But right now, Camelot Unchained is putting...
Wild West Online denies that its alpha has been delayed
Hey, cowboys and cowgirls. When did you think alpha was going to begin for Wild West Online? You're wrong, apparently. 612 Games broke its recent...
EVE Online engineers a patch full of quality-of-life improvements
Maybe it's a sign of age or maturity as a video gamer when you start to rejoice over less flashy "quality of life" patches....