PvE stands for player-vs.-environment, where environment is generally taken to mean the world, NPCs, and AI.
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Lost Ark adds the tropical Lai Lai adventure island in today’s January patch
Lost Ark's first big update of 2024 officially arrives today, or it will when the servers return (currently expected at 11 a.m. EST, although...
Tarisland’s latest crafting overhaul proposal doubles down on prioritizing PvE drops over crafted gear
Tencent is back in Discord today with continuing updates on everything it's doing to make Tarisland more palatable for the western market, not that...
Casually Classic: 12 quality-of-life improvements coming with Cataclysm Classic
I'm in a very strange place in relation to the upcoming Cataclysm Classic. I kind of didn't want this expansion to happen at all for...
WoW Classic’s second phase of the Season of Discovery arrives February 8
The next month will bring more opportunities for players of WoW Classic to find runes, tweak their characters, and earn some levels along the...
Albion Online brings the guild battle thunder with new GvG mechanics in today’s Crystal Raiders update
Raiding a crystal sounds like either a boring proposition or at the least the plot line of a JRPG, but in the case of...
Villagers and Heroes teases Crux, its biggest zone yet, launching this spring
Villagers & Heroes is starting the new year with the revival of its newsletter, which began by recapping all of the MMO's progress in...
Tarisland makes major PvE and PvP changes to its beta build
Back from the winter break, Tarisland's dev team is cranking out a slew of changes to the beta build. In a recent Discord discussion,...
Final Fantasy XIV Tokyo Fan Festival: Pictomancer, lady Hrothgar, and release ambiguity
If you had been paying attention and looking forward to Final Fantasy XIV's third and final fan festival ahead of Dawntrail, you probably had...
The Stream Team: A second attempt at delving ICARUS
When Massively OP's MJ tried out ICARUS for the first time during its free Steam weekend, she really enjoyed the game! Unfortunately, it turned...
Lord of the Rings Online readies Ill Omens event, Update 39, and 2024 roadmap
After the holiday break, Lord of the Rings Online's team is revving up for another year in Middle-earth. In this past Friday's studio livestream,...
Lost Skies developer Bossa Studios sheds 19 employees owing to a ‘perfect storm of events’
We're sad to report that layoffs in gaming and tech appear to be continuing even among the smaller studios out there. The most recent...
Palworld details pet mechanics and critters, Craftopia shares its latest roadmap
It's a pair of Pocket Pair updates in this news story, with the developer continuing to crank out the pet-focused footage for its still-gestating...
Casually Classic: Analyzing WoW Classic’s 2024 roadmap
With another year debuting this week, Blizzard was more on the ball than some MMO studios by already publishing its roadmap for 2024. Two...
Lost Ark brings Inferno difficulty Brelshaza raid and hotly anticipated class balance updates January 10
At the end of December, Lost Ark had to disappoint its players with news that a series of balance updates made to the Korean...
ArcheAge’s 2024 roadmap includes new systems and the Fairy race
ArcheAge is cursed to live in interesting times, it seems. With game version merges in its recent past, the 11th anniversary in its present,...
Wisdom of Nym: What Final Fantasy XIV’s fan festival needs to accomplish
In just a few days, the last fan festival for Final Fantasy XIV's upcoming Dawntrail expansion will kick off, and on paper it looks...
Following Bobby Kotick’s exit, former ABK devs call out his toxic management and Overwatch 2 sabotage
Now that Bobby Kotick has floated away from Activision-Blizzard on a doubtlessly diamond-encrusted platinum parachute, some former developers at Blizzard are feeling confident enough...
Albion Online elaborates on territory mechanic changes coming with the Crystal Raiders update
Albion Online continues to feverishly bang the hype drum for its upcoming Crystal Raiders update. Following a tweet that referenced territory changes related to...
The Daily Grind: Who told the biggest gaming fib of 2023?
Did you know I keep a list of quotes and fibs? Well, you probably did, since we already did our annual piece on the...
Massively on the Go: A slow New Year start for Pokemon GO events
Pokemon Go is still not bringing its A-game. After a buggy end of the year complete with utterly breaking Beware and accidentally releasing-and-taking-back unreleased...
