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 outlines the advantages and drawbacks for its upcoming War Mode
The changes coming to world PvP in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth means that it's no longer a gap between servers, but a...
Destiny 2 aims to impress with Warmind
Next week on May 8th, Destiny 2 is making a strong bid for players' attention with its Warmind DLC. It feels as though there...
Rumor: Daybreak may be building PlanetSide 3 and EverQuest 3, sunsetting Just Survive
While Daybreak producers are spelling out their games' future, a now-deleted post over at Reddit by an alleged former employee of Daybreak Games purports to...
EVE Evolved: Getting ready for EVE Online’s Abyssal revolution
If you've seen the news recently coming out of EVE Fanfest 2018, you've probably heard of EVE Online's upcoming expansion: Into the Abyss. Pockets...
Impressions of Sea of Thieves, one month in: Deep-diving retro world PvP
It's really hard for me to not to gush hard about Sea of Thieves. I know many out there won't agree, and it's easy to say why,...
Blade & Soul’s Eternal Night patch will rebalance weapon material requirements
Blade & Soul's next big thing, Eternal Night, is launching in less than two weeks on May 9th, and if you're an economy player...
Wild West Online crosses the launch frontier on May 10
Saddle up, pard'ners, 'cause it's about to be a bumpy ride.
Wild West Online announced today that it is officially launching on May 10th. Yes,...
WoW Factor: Things that actually worry me about Battle for Azeroth
The Battle for Azeroth beta is here, at long last, and it feels like it might have come a little early in the process....
Final Fantasy XIV previews the Ridorana Lighthouse of patch 4.3
South of Rabanastre, there is a lighthouse. It's not a very good lighthouse, because it's surrounded by a yawning chasm that gets worse every...
Guild Wars 2 tortures Dervish fans with an outfit but no class, denies excessive data collection in ‘spyware’ controversy
World polish and bug fixes are at the forefront of Guild Wars 2's latest patch, which went live yesterday.
Several nagging issues across the game...
RIFT gets ready for patch day while ArcheAge re-enables transfers and name changes
A couple of small notices swung our way from Trion Worlds' MMORPGs. Tomorrow, RIFT is going to be updating the game, and with the...
Impressions of Project Gorgon from an Asheron’s Call player
It's finally time for me talk about Project Gorgon as a released product. As you might have guessed, I was avoiding the game prior to launch....
RIFT Prime reintroduces 10-player slivers and LFR
The sliver-spooned mouths of RIFT Prime subscribers are being filled with all manner of endgame challenges this week. With the first step forward of...
Warframe debuts a new pet class and an endless game mode
It's been a long time coming -- nearly six months now since its initial announcement -- but Warframe's newest class has finally made it...
The Survivalist: Four hopes for the future of ARK Survival Evolved
As we explored last week, game development isn't always an upward trajectory. Some things soar, and some things crash. Our last Survivalist conversation was about...
Blade & Soul delays its Eternal Night update deeper into May
Blade & Soul players are going to have to chew on a bit of a sour grape today, as NCsoft announced that it made...
Massively Overthinking: What we really mean when we talk about ‘difficulty’ in MMORPGs
Massively OP reader Steve wants us to revisit the Daily Grind on making death more meaningful without making it more annoying. His letter was long, so...
RIFT progression server activates its first two raids
Yesterday RIFT's progression server took a step forward, pushing the line of content forward with some old endgame activities.
Two 10-player raids, Drowned Halls and...
Hyperspace Beacon: Five things Star Wars The Old Republic still does well
I have been harping on so many things that BioWare is doing wrong with Star Wars: The Old Republic that some have wondered why...
Closers invites players to take part in new challenges at the planar gate
If you've got a need for some new challenges in Closers, possibly of the planar variety, you'll get plenty out of the new Planar...
