pve

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

Guns of Icarus opens up dynamic PvE battles with Alliance DLC

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Dueling airships title Guns of Icarus is sailing into uncharted territory with its recent Alliance DLC: PvE. If players pony up the $15 to buy...
To be fair, some of these dudes are probably not good at this.

Join the Thieves Guild today in The Elder Scrolls Online’s latest DLC

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The Elder Scrolls Online's Thieves Guild DLC is live today on the production servers. Those with active ESO Plus memberships will be able to...
Go boom.

Guild Wars 2 is not going back to biweekly updates: ‘When we’re shipping every two weeks, we just have to ship’

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There's no way that the Guild Wars 2 AMA on Reddit could possibly top the big bombshell about Colin Johanson's departure that started the...

Massively OP’s guide to MMORPG death penalties

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In real life, when you die the penalty is... death. You just get that one go at things. But in MMOs, player characters are...

WildStar systems lead Brett Scheinert leaves Carbine

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WildStar is one fewer dev strong today now that Multiplayer Systems Lead Brett "Timetravel" Scheinert has left Carbine Studios. He had been with the company since...
It's not particularly cruel.

Massively Overthinking: The curse of player-generated MMO content

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The influx of new player-generated-content-oriented MMOs might make you think that PGC is on the rise, but if you've been around the genre for...

Allods Online orders a ‘complete rework’ of its class roster

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If it hasn't sunk in yet that Allods Online's New Order update is going to be huge for the game, then take a minute...

Guild Wars 2 previews final Spirit Vale raid boss

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"Sometimes when people who don’t play video games ask me what I do for a living, I just tell them I come up with...

The Stream Team: The HEX battle bunny goes to the beach (and gives away goodies)

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MassivelyOP's MJ is on a winning streak! Even with one really close call, she hasn't lost a HEX PvE match in a couple of...

Das Tal readies an alpha pre-test for later this month

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When is a test not a test? When it's a pre-test, of course! Oh, just ignore the silly terminology to accept the fact that...

Elder Scrolls Online’s Maw of Lorkhaj trial will have a puggable normal mode

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The latest Elder Scrolls Online Thieves Guild DLC dev diary is aimed at dungeoneers seeking to take on Maw of Lorkjah, the upcoming 12-man...
Balanced!

Camelot Unchained discusses balance in the midst of the beta crunch

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The developers behind Camelot Unchained are currently in the midst of a hard crunch to get the game's beta ready for players to, well,...

RIFT starts the countdown to its fifth anniversary patch

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Things are about to get crazy fun up in RIFT. The game is looking forward to celebrating its fifth birthday soon, an occasion that will...
Black Desert

The Daily Grind: If an MMO has a cash shop, when should it launch?

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Massively OP reader Leiloni pointed out to us something unusual about Black Desert: Its much-talked-about cash shop wasn't originally going to open until March 10th,...

Shroud of the Avatar brings in fast travel and new player towns

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More and more these days Shroud of the Avatar is looking like a whole game. It probably helps that the game seems to update...

The MOP Up: Top raiding guild quits World of Warcraft (February 28, 2016)

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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...

H1Z1 is ‘regrouping and refocusing’ after split

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A new H1Z1 -- or "Hizzy," to its friends -- producer's letter shares that the team is still "regrouping and refocusing" following its digital...
Black desert, yellowish beach, SAME DIFF.

Leaderboard: Which Black Desert server will you be calling home?

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Massively OP reader Xijit thought it would be a grand idea to try to coordinate our community's Black Desert servers, and we agree! Let's...

Outcast Odyssey takes your CCG on a tour of a fantasy world

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It's digital card game day here at Massively Overpowered (what, no one prepared you?), and we've got another online title to highlight for your...

Star Crusade is a CCG with adjustable deck sizes

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Everyone seems to want a slice of the lucrative Hearthstone digital card game pie these days. The latest challenger to Blizzard's throne is ZiMAD's Star...

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