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

Elder Scrolls Online: Deep-diving Morrowind’s new Warden class

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Along with a new expansive 30-hour long story, Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind will introduce us to the game's first new class called the Warden,...

Conan Exiles buffs voice chat, brings new Asian servers online following region locks

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"Goodbye, giant green poison balls of death -- you will be sort of missed," Funcom's Erling Ellingsen wrote of today's Conan Exiles patch, live...

Funcom is now region-locking Conan Exiles’ official servers

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If you're a fan of playing survival sandboxes with your friends around the world, better scrape together some pennies to invest in a private...

EVE Evolved: What do we want from Drilling Platforms?

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If you followed our EVE Fanfest coverage last year, you might remember CCP announcing plans to add a whole series of new deployable structures...

World of Warcraft increases legendary drop chances, preps PvP class tuning

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Despairing that you'll never get a legendary item in World of Warcraft? Have patience, young grasshopper, because it might just happen soon. Blizzard revealed...

The Stream Team: ARK’s big Broodmother raid, take two

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The first attempt at facing the Broodmother in ARK's newer raid arenas ultimately failed in the end. The team just didn't have the numbers...

Massively Overthinking: Are MMOs designed for ‘low-skill gamers’?

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Ages ago on the MMORPG subreddit, a player made a bold statement: MMORPGs are designed for low-skill gamers. "I remember being dazzled by EverQuest and...
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World of Warcraft’s Hazzikostas discusses the goals for future Artifact Power implementation

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There has been some back-and-forth about World of Warcraft's Artifact Power system. The problem that people have run into, essentially, is that the game's...

Shards Online pumps up early access hype with a community roundtable

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Last week we reported that Shards Online is winding down its alpha program and gearing up for Steam early access launch sometime in the...

Devilian’s newest dungeon and raid goes live

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Just in time for yesterday's lovefest, Devilian unleashed wave after wave of nailbiting terror with group instances that will make your hair turn white...
Starting off on the autocratic foot.

Choose My Adventure: Reconsidering WildStar, from pre-launch to now

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In order to talk about WildStar, we kind of have to talk about Firefly. And no, not in the obvious way where we talk...

Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s latest raid might be a too little too late

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When Star Wars: The Old Republic launched, I was champing at the bit for raids. Then when I heard about the launch bugs from...

Global Chat: Get over the lockbox debate already

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One of the largest and most enduring arguments of the MMO genre is the purpose, legality, and profitability of so-called lockboxes in games. We've...

The Stream Team: ARK’s night is dark and full of dinos (to eat)

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Are you afraid of things that go bump in the night? You should be in ARK -- especially if that bump also bites! Unless,...

Blade & Soul opens a pair of raids in its Wings of the Raven update

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Coming at players like a massive one-two punch, Blade & Soul's newest update contains a pair of 24-player raids designed to take you to...
Oh, thanks.

Massively Overthinking: Unholy MMORPG hybrids

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Massively OP reader and frequent tipster Gibbins wants us to play match-maker. "I love the wonderful world that Bethesda created with the Fallout franchise, not...

Mekria Online cancels its $110K Kickstarter

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Just a week and a half ago, we told you all about Mekria Online, a brand-new in-development MMORPG focused on both PvE and PvP....

Perfect Ten: Ranking MMORPG combat pets, from best to worst

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It's an objectively known fact that Warhammer Online's squigs were the peak of MMORPG pet design and functionality. Giant balls of attitude and appetite...

Guild Wars 2 AMA: DPS meters, PAX East, raiding, and insider trading

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Following the launch of Guild Wars 2's Head of the Snake episode yesterday -- a day late, but fully intact! -- 21 members of...

Six new PvE queues are coming to Star Trek Online’s console editions

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While Star Trek Online's console versions will probably always trail behind the PC edition in terms of the most up-to-date content, Cryptic is making...

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