PvE stands for player-vs.-environment, where environment is generally taken to mean the world, NPCs, and AI.
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The Survivalist: Another year, another Survival Game guide
A new year, a new batch of survival games! Yes, the genre has become so popular that one guide, no not even two guides...
Aeria’s online shooter Ironsight aims for open beta
It's 2025. A megatsunami has caused massive damage all over the world, and resources have become limited. Instead of sharing and caring for each...
World of Warcraft patch 7.3.5 arrives tomorrow with worldwide level scaling
Got some alts you want to level up in World of Warcraft? The experience is about to become much broader when patch 7.3.5 arrives...
Wisdom of Nym: The final countdown before Final Fantasy XIV patch 4.2
We still don't technically know when Final Fantasy XIV is launching its next patch, but we can also figure it out. It was always...
Hi-Rez Expo 2018: Erez Goren, 10 more games, 400 employees, and Global Agenda’s City of Heroes roots
It is true that the Hi-Rez Expo has wrapped up for 2018, and we'll need to wait another 12 months to attend the next...
Hi-Rez Expo 2018: Diving deeper into SMITE’s new map, new pantheons, fog, and more
Although the studio makes other games and each has a presence at Hi-Rez Expo 2018, there's no denying that SMITE was the star of the...
WoW Factor: Guessing at Battle for Azeroth’s release date using math
The "when will Battle for Azeroth" speculation train is rolling once again because it looks like patch 7.3.5 is just around the corner. We...
Destiny 2 outlines its 2018 roadmap, including major changes to the cash shop
It's fair to say that Destiny 2 has had a bit of a rough go over the past few weeks, what with the dropping...
Massively Overthinking: What’s the smallest MMO you’re willing to play?
A comment on Reddit about the current size and viability of Kritika Online got me thinking about MMO playerbases in general lately. We all...
Conan Exiles’ huge combat overhaul is destined for player testers in February
The Funcom team is back in business after the winter holiday, and that means a fresh Conan Exiles newsletter for the community. What's on...
Flameseeker Chronicles: 2018 Guild Wars 2 predictions
I adore looking back on last year's predictions about what's to come in Guild Wars 2 in the next twelve months: Even when my predictions...
Bless Online teases its solo, story, and raid dungeons ahead of 2018 rollout
Neowiz has a new dev blog up on Steam today featuring none other than Bless Online's dungeons, which include episodes relating to the main...
EVE Evolved: EVE Online’s case for asymmetric and asynchronous gameplay
If there's one thing that EVE Online does better than any other MMO on the market today, it's persistent gameplay on massive scales. The now-famous...
Crowfall is spicing up its maps with ‘adventure parcels’
The maps in Crowfall are assembled in a combination of procedural and hand-crafted generation. Individual bits are hand-crafted, but the maps as a whole...
Global Chat: Love the farm, hate the farm
How do you feel about grinding in MMOs? What about farming? These questions can elicit a wide variety of answers, from shrieks of dismay...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO hopes and wishes for 2018
One of the frustrating bits about our end-of-the-year content rollouts is that sometimes predictions and story roundups can come across as negative. It’s way too easy...
Warframe shares how its business model keeps players happy and giving
One of the reasons we and our readers admire Warframe is that this title hasn't descended into the questionable, aggressive, and despised business tactics...
Exclusive: Ship of Heroes’ Casey McGeever on the superhero MMORPG genre
Ship of Heroes is super-jumping right into 2018 with two documents of note. The first is a retrospective of what the Heroic Games team...
Black Desert Mobile shares some details about account linking, character creation, and items
Curious about the play experience of Black Desert Mobile? The developers have put out a helpful FAQ about the game's features, mechanical changes, and...
Chaos Theory: 2017 was a big year for the Secret World IP
Well, 2017 was interesting. It's not often that your favorite game starts off as one game at the beginning of the year and then...