PvE stands for player-vs.-environment, where environment is generally taken to mean the world, NPCs, and AI.
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Pax Dei outlines update plans for housing, combat, and economy over its year-long early access
Ready or not, the MMORPG world is less than 24 hours from the early access release of the sandbox Pax Dei, which is occasion...
Wisdom of Nym: Musings on Final Fantasy XIV’s last live letter before Dawntrail
If you couldn't watch the live letter because you were too anxious, well, I don't know how you live your life, but also I...
The MOP Up: Temtem goes neon as it spins down development
Temtem's Patch 1.7 arrived with the start of its Neon Reverie season, the game's last as development starts to spin down: "To close it...
Massively on the Go: Splatoon 3’s Big Big Run highlights the big problem with its PvE
As I shamelessly teased in the WRUP last week, I managed to make some time for Splatoon 3's new Salmon Run event, the Big...
Pax Dei bluntly outlines what it is – and is not – ahead of next week’s early access release
In a world where games have waffled about their MMO-ness, the devs at Mainframe Industries have made it very clear what kind of gameplay...
Massively Overthinking: The New World Aeternum debacle
You know that feeling when you can see a trainwreck coming, but you know you can't do anything to stop it or even warn...
SGF 2024: Hands-on with PvE-centric sci-fi horror survival shooter MMO Once Human
For those who saw Once Human and thought, "Gee, that kind of looks like a mix of H1Z1 and The Secret World," you're not wrong based on...
‘Multiplayer conquest adventure’ MMO Havenhold readies an alpha test for next week
If you like a good dose of martial arts with side portions of PvP and coop PvE, then we're here to put Havenhold on...
Lost Skies recaps shipbuilding, sky bosses, and the damageability of everything in the game
Video game logic often dictates that if a tree falls on top of a house, that house will remain unfazed as the felled tree...
Lost Ark’s roadmap heralds dungeon and raid solo mode, T4, and the North Kurzan continent
Lost Ark's really been churning out the content previews this week; just yesterday, Amazon's video on the June content blast was making apologies for...
Fight or Kite: 33 Immortals continues the trend of pseudo-MMO gaming
Even given the general pullback in the games industry from using the term MMO, I sure am noticing a bunch of other games that...
WoW Classic promises new runes, boss changes, and Molten Core for Season of Discovery’s Phase 4
Even though WoW Classic's fourth phase for its Season of Discovery has been delayed in order to let the other variants of the MMORPG...
SGF 2024: Hands-on with New World’s controversial Aeternum reboot, which is still an MMORPG
How's everyone recovering from all this New World Aeternum news coming out of Summer Games Fest? It's been kind of a confusing time for me, as...
SGF 2024: Amazon discusses New World Aeternum on console, swimming, solo content, and archetypes
In case there's anyone out there still confused: New World Aeternum is not a single player or co-op game. I know the Summer Game Fest announcement of...
Lost Ark previews its Summer Heat raid-centric update, says to expect a slower content cadence this summer
As teased, Smilegate and Amazon have indeed given more info on Lost Ark's Summer Heat update, which launches next week on June 19th with...
New World’s new Q&A struggles to explain why a massively multiplayer online RPG isn’t an MMORPG
Amazon's New World Aeternum announcement last Friday did not go to plan, unless getting reviewbombed to oblivion by PC players and confusing mainstream gaming...
The Stream Team: Hopping into the multiplayer raid roguelike of Rabbit & Steel
MOP's Chris is hopping mad for raid content! But not just any raid content; it's the raid content that covers the entirety of the...
Lost Ark promises details for western summer content soon, teases a June 19 update that’s full of dragons
Lost Ark fans are once more being reminded that the Korean MMOARPG released in Korea first, meaning that there's some time to wait between...
SGF 2024: Ubisoft unveils new content for The Crew Motorfest, Skull & Bones, and The Division 2
The final breathless gasp of this year's Summer Game Fest presentations has occurred, as multiple days' worth of gaming showcases has ended with Ubisoft...
SGF 2024: Aloft is a cozy Ghibli-inspired PvE-centric survival sandbox in the sky
When I first heard about Aloft while planning for Summer Games Fest 2024, I figured it would just be a cute multiplayer survival game;...
