PvE stands for player-vs.-environment, where environment is generally taken to mean the world, NPCs, and AI.
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EVE Evolved: 2016 EVE Online year in review
It's been another busy year for sci-fi MMO EVE Online, and an absolute roller coaster ride for both players and developer CCP Games. On the...
Flameseeker Chronicles: 2017 predictions for Guild Wars 2
The year is most definitely drawing to a close: I've devoured a mountain of turkey and stuffing sandwiches, binge-watched all of my favourite holiday...
The MOP Up: Christmas in a warzone (December 25, 2016)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival Tokyo 2016: Red Mage, swimming, and Stormblood’s June 20 launch date
It's the holiday season here in the US, but in Japan it's just another weekend. Only it's not just another weekend; it's the weekend...
Zul’jin joins the cast of Heroes of the Storm
As the Horde pushed north following the destruction of Stormwind, the Alliance dogged their forces and conspired to push them back. But the Horde...
Chaos Theory: The kink in Secret World’s Krampusnacht
The Secret World, I'm shaking my head at you. I mean, I wasn't expecting anything really for the Krampusnacht holiday. But this?
Remember back when...
The Soapbox: Asheron’s Call is dead, and Turbine killed it
You'd think recent news about Asheron's Call 1 and AC2 would be easy to swallow. After all, we'd already been warned that Turbine was becoming a mobile...
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s 2016 Report Card
It's that time of year again where we reflect on the year gone by and consider Star Wars: The Old Republic as a whole....
World of Warcraft nerfs the Trial of Valor today
Are you valorous enough to pass World of Warcraft's Trial of Valor? Because you will require significantly less valor to pass it after the...
The new Nostalrius emulator suffered six DDOS attacks on launch day
Apparently some folks are taking the relaunch of the Nostalrius servers very badly: Team Elysium, the group behind the newest World of Warcraft emulator,...
Pick up a Starfall Tactics pre-alpha key from Snowforged and MOP
Snowforged Entertainment's online space strategy MMO Starfall Tactics is running another pre-alpha event for testers this weekend.
"Wars for territories, planet colonization, Houses (faction guilds), thousands planets...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG stories of the year
Earlier this week, we posted our award for the biggest MMORPG story of the year -- the one we thought had the biggest impact...
Echo of Soul transports players to Christmasland
As with, well, pretty much every other MMO out there right now, Echo of Soul is running its own Christmas event.
The game patched in...
It’s vikings vs. samurai in Ubisoft’s For Honor
When multi-faction PvP games come out, it always feels as though you are being recruited for some sort of specialized street gang. Whom will...
The Stream Team: Nab yourself a SMITE Nike Peregrine code
Massively OP's MJ loves Fafnir’s Winter Wonderland, even if she hasn't gotten very far yet. There's just an addictive pull to these PvE arenas....
25000 people have signed up for the new Nostalrius server so far
According to a tweet by the original folks behind Nostalrius, the new version of the World of Warcraft classic emulator has already (or only,...
Elysium gears up for Nostalrius emu character transfers and relaunch
Back before BlizzCon, the admins of the sunsetted illegal World of Warcraft emulator Nostalrius issued a threat, demanding that the game studio create official vanilla...
How 2016 took Lord of the Rings Online to the gates of Mordor
As Lord of the Rings Online nears its impressive 10th birthday in April of next year, we see a game that's in many ways...
Ever, Jane’s third big update of open beta begins today with house ownership
Do you want to own the grandest mansion in the land? Of course you do. That's why you're reading an article about Ever, Jane,...
More skill splits are coming to Guild Wars 2’s PvP scene
Guild Wars 2 players advocating skill segregation between the PvE and PvP spheres have another victory in the making for next week's Season 5:...
