PvE stands for player-vs.-environment, where environment is generally taken to mean the world, NPCs, and AI.
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World of Warcraft fans demand consequences for Blizzard staffer seemingly caught cheating in-game
A fresh scandal is breaking out across the World of Warcraft scene today as a Blizzard staffer has apparently been caught helping someone cheat...
A PvP holy war has broken out in the Wilderness of Old School RuneScape
Sometimes when an MMO dev claims its PvP sandbox will encourage "emergent gameplay," it's shorthand for "we don't feel like designing anything." In the...
Dungeons and Dragons Online’s Terror of Demogorgon expansion launches today
Dungeons and Dragons Online adventurers are called to descend into the game's famous Underdark once more, as today the Terror of Demogorgon expansion added...
Multiplayer RTS ZeroSpace celebrates early access launch with community events
Kickstarted multiplayer RTS ZeroSpace has officially launched into early access this week and is celebrating with community events for PvE and PvP. The initial...
Gods Death & Reapers maps out new arenas, a party system, and its upcoming early access features
Last May saw Gods, Death & Reapers, the PvPvE extraction RPG from Wolcen Studio, host its fifth closed alpha playtest, which MOP's own Sam Kash hopped...
Marathon’s mid-season update adds a temporary PvE roguelike mode and several balance tweaks
Let's stick a pin in the fact that Marathon is hemorrhaging talent right now and focus on what the remaining Bungie devs have released...
MMORPG fans plead for in-game Jimothy pets after devs create mock-ups of the viral critter
If you've been on social media for any length of time, you probably are familiar with the viral sensation that is Jimothy, a raccoon...
Wisdom of Nym: Bold predictions for Final Fantasy XIV’s second fan festival
At the time I type this sentence, we've got a week to go until the next fan festival for Final Fantasy XIV, and this time...
Crystal of Atlan CN opens a ‘season server’ with tweaks to content, progression, and trading
Crystal of Atlan calls itself an MMO, but what if instead it did the ARPG seasonal thing while also opening up a few of...
Dungeons & Dragons Online’s Terror of Demogorgon expansion gets a July 22 release date
We've known since all the way back in May about the next expansion for Dungeons & Dragons Online. It's got a demogorgons, it's got the...
Erenshor’s solo dev discusses retention issues, the use of LLMs, and the MMO sim’s path to 1.0
Brian Burgee, the sole developer for the single-player MMORPG sim Erenshor, has a whole lot to say about where things stand and where they're going, particularly...
Bungie talks up Marathon’s Mid-Season 2 update, but players are far more interested in Destiny 2 these days
Bugie's extraction shooter Marathon is gearing up for a hefty patch when Update 1.1.5 arrives next week on July 21st. In a recent blog...
Not So Massively: The death of Stadium is another shortsighted waste of Overwatch’s potential
Well, here I am, proud recipient of the "Fell for It Again" award. Just days after we published my hopeful wishlist of future character...
Throne and Liberty kicks off its new battlegrounds season and adds a seal battle PvP match type
We'll get the bad news out of the way first: The new PvP game mode that's been added with the latest update to Throne and Liberty...
Vague Patch Notes: Long-term content vs. short-term content in MMORPGs
So I was reading back through a column I wrote a while back about Star Wars: The Old Republic and it got me thinking. In...
MMORPGs Equinox Homecoming and Pax Dei have both just kicked off free-play demos
How's it feel to be spoiled for choice? Two very different indie MMORPGs are offering a free-play experience if you're sitting around bored here...
Anime MMO Nostale drops its Guardians of Dimensions patch with four new specialists
Despite being 18 years old, Korean anime MMO Nostale is as spry and active as any, erm, 18-year-old? OK, that metaphor got away from...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Lessons Guild Wars 3 must not fail to learn from its predecessors
One of the great things about starting a new project is the chance to look back at the pain points from your past projects...
Lost Ark’s Summer of Extremes patch arrives today with Paradise Season 4 and raid update
So let me tell you about the summer of extremes we're having here. So far it's been a new multi-day heat record, thunderstorms that...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s 10th anniversary Go Fest sure was a thing that happened
If it wasn't obvious, I was not excited for Pokemon Go's 10th Anniversary Go Fest. I know I've said this before, but after the Kalos...
