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 talks up delves, raids, and dungeons in a new video about an endgame for everyone
While the latest video from World of Warcraft does not specifically use the term "raid or die," it seems very clear from the discussion...
Not So Massively: Immortal Gates of Pyre offers multiplayer RTS fans a glimmer of hope
It's been a busy month for fans of the real time strategy genre. Even as Stormgate ran its early access preview, another crowdfunded StarCraft...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Previewing Guild Wars 2’s Janthir Wilds story, warclaw, and homesteading
It feels like less than a year ago that Guild Wars 2 was launching its last expansion… oh wait, it was! Love it or...
The Daily Grind: If your MMO had difficulty modes, what mode would you play on?
A few weeks back, survival sandbox Enshrouded added a new update with multiple difficulty modes, including two hardcore ones, a normal one, a relaxed...
Once Human outlines future plans for scenario servers, social features, and its pet system
Once Human's core gameplay loop looks to be focused on seasons and "scenarios" - servers that have limited-time gameplay themes - which prompts the...
Zenith’s last big hurrah is in the making with Season 4: Golden Isles
Just because Zenith is transitioning into maintenance mode doesn't mean that the virtual reality MMO is without one final big trick up its sleeve....
The Stream Team: After-mission power planning in ICARUS
Massively OP's MJ has wrapped up her first mission, but now's not the time to rest on her laurels. She's ready to flex her...
Destiny 2 brings back the annual summertime Solstice event and outlines recent gear tweaks
It's time to celebrate summer in Destiny 2 via the time-honored tradition of slaughtering enemies and grinding currency to make special armor extra shiny....
Warframe of Mind: Partying like it’s 1999 at TennoCon 2024
TennoCon is always a hotbed of Warframe (and now Soulframe) reveals, from new frames and primes to skins to the next content drops. But...
Pax Dei is working on soloable PvE content, a HUD compass, and combat responsiveness for next updates
Pax Dei is continuing its information onslaught in Discord as Mainframe Industries took the opportunity this morning to post a state-of-the-game memo to social...
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen shares what will and will not be in early access launch, elaborates on server wipe strategy
The end of this year is promising to be a pivotal one for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, with the PvE sandbox headed into...
WoW Factor: The black mark of World of Warcraft’s player economy
Sometimes, I like to play a little game with MOP's Bree. I say I like to because the game is "Give Bree An Aneurysm,"...
Albion Online’s first Paths to Glory patch fixes a multitude of Albion Journal issues
Albion Online hasn't had the most flawless post-Paths to Glory experience, as at the end of July, it was victimized by a series of...
Perfect Ten: 10 tabletop games based on World of Warcraft
So here's what inspired this particular article: I was thinking about board games based upon MMOs of various scales because the other day I...
Lost Ark’s style book and planned Echidna raid nerfs won’t make it into next week’s patch
Just a week after its summer-to-fall roadmap dropped, Amazon is tweaking Lost Ark's plans a pinch. The studio says that most of the content...
Choose My Adventure: Mission runs cap off a welcoming return to Elite Dangerous
What a difference a month makes. When I first started these series of Elite Dangerous posts for Choose My Adventure, I had gone into...
Design Mockument: How to make housing work in World of Warcraft
Editor's note: This column was originally published in August 2024, a full three months before we knew WoW is actually getting housing with the...
Star Citizen takes a look at the space stations, asteroid bases, and FFA PvP of alpha 4.0’s Pyro system
Star Citizen's weekly video series is now starting to look past alpha 3.24 and towards alpha 4.0, especially the addition of the game's second...
Tarisland adds damage and defense bonuses for bringing rookies to endgame content
Tarisland has been surprisingly quiet since its launch here in the west last month, with Tencent having focused on launch promotion and influencer showdowns....
Guild Wars 2 kicks off Festival of the Four Winds, preps PvP warclaw overhaul ahead of Janthir Wilds
When Guild Wars 2's Janthir Wilds launches at the end of August, the warclaw mount will undergo a major transformation as the journeykin, an...
