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

Choose My Adventure: Elsweyr questing and dragon slaying further solidify my Elder Scrolls Online love

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I appreciate that this series of Choose My Adventure columns has started to read an awful lot like I'm being paid off by The...
Everything old is claimed to be new again.

WoW Classic annoys roleplayers with Season of Discovery server merges

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How do you do a merge without technically calling it a merge? Well, you close down a server for new players and give everyone...

Second Wind: World of Warcraft’s radically casual new endgame

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Today we're going to be dusting off Second Wind, a column where we revisit MMOs of the past. It's an older column, sir, but...

APB Reloaded answers questions about matchmaking, server merging, and content updates

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Little Orbit CEO Matthew Scott continues to remain the primary source of internal comms for APB Reloaded, as he took up player questions and...

The MOP Up: Uncharted Waters Online wields cutthroat weapons

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Uncharted Waters Online recently added its Chapter 4.2: Gemini update with better melee weapons, more navigational constellations, and an increase of the level cap...

The Daily Grind: What does your ideal space sim MMO look like?

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Even a quarter-century into the MMORPG revolution, we still haven't seen an interstellar MMO that really fits what I'm seeking in a space sim....

Co-op roguelike Rabbit and Steel throws you right into raids without the MMO grind

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Have you ever thought to yourself, "Man, I love me some solid MMO-style raiding, but I just wish I didn't have to engage with...
Surprised? Really?

WoW Factor: There’s probably never going to be a World of Warcraft ‘Classic Plus’

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As I always do when discussing World of Warcraft (and anything else, really), I am putting my cards on the table here: I am...

New World players have a better than 90% clear rate in the Winter Rune Forge raid

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One of the headline features of New World's latest season is the hard-to-say-10-times-fast Winter Rune Forge raid, which Amazon is toasting this week with...

Farm Folks is a new multiplayer solarpunk cozygame headed for a second Kickstarter

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If you haven't swung by Steam's front page this week, you might not realize that the platform is in the middle of Steam Farming...

Destiny 2 opens the Pantheon boss rush mode for players in latest update

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This week is opening the opportunity for Destiny 2 players to become Godslayers. That's the rather dramatic hook for the game's latest update, which...
I'm definitely an elf!

Perfect Ten: 10 times World of Warcraft was killed forever

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As many of you reading this may know, World of Warcraft is a game that launched and then immediately died forever. It then proceeded...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 467: The end of an ArcheAge

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Justin and Bree discuss ArcheAge's sunset, the cancellation of BlizzCon 2024, Escape from Tarkov's no good very bad day, Age of Water's early access launch, and the 20th anniversary of City of Heroes, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, Fallout 4, and Guild Wars 2, plus mailbag topics on defensive characters in MMOs and whether Crowfall has any kind of future.

Massively on the Go: April showers didn’t bring Pokemon GO May event flowers

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April was a rough month for Pokemon Go, as the game failed to deliver on Earth Day - an event Niantic used to champion...

Evercore Heroes, back from the dead, talks new game flow and the rationale for rebirth

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Now that we know Evercore Heroes is returning from its competitive team vs. team PvE origin to a co-operative roguelike, there might be some...

Starbase returns from radio silence with plan for new navigation, territory control, and PvE

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In May of last year, we expressed some concern about Starbase, the sci-fi crafting sandbox from Frozenbyte, particularly since it received little more than...

Escape from Tarkov cedes PvE mode to earlier special edition buyers, but only ‘in waves’ and after full release server updates

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This past weekend saw Escape from Tarkov start a row with its biggest supporters by paywalling a PvE mode, forcing new buyers to cough...

Multiplayer medieval brawler Mordhau marks fifth anniversary with April 29 demon attack

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The multiplayer PvP-focused medieval brawler Mordhau doesn't often hit our news desk except when it's promising to fight toxicity or when modders transform the...
This is who you are.

Escape from Tarkov causes firestorm by locking PvE mode behind $250 special edition

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Battlestate Games has decided that access to a PvE mode for its otherwise PvP-centric shooter Escape from Tarkov is worth a whole lot of...
Would you like to see something unsettling?

WoW Factor: Exit BlizzCon, for good this time?

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Back in 2021, we learned that there was not going to be a BlizzCon 2022. This did not surprise me, and I penned a...

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