PvE stands for player-vs.-environment, where environment is generally taken to mean the world, NPCs, and AI.
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Das Tal plans ‘massive’ spring alpha playtest
Das Tal's devs have a "massive" test event planned for the coming season. Fairytale Distillery says that its February sneak-peek playtests will be followed...
Allods Online’s New Order will be broken up into four seasons
Does anyone else find it slightly ominous that the Russian-created Allods Online has an update coming out called "New Order?" Will all MMOs soon...
Trinium Wars bringing three classes out for its early access next week
Trinium Wars is preparing to kick off its early access program next week on March 2nd. When prospective players take their first steps into...
Daybreak walks a fine line with EverQuest II’s TLE server
A developer update on the status and future of EverQuest II's time-locked expansion server illuminates some of the difficulties that the team is facing...
WildStar’s PvP plan means server consolidation on PvE worlds
WildStar Game Director Chad "Pappy" Moore has big plans for reigniting the PvP flame in the beleaguered sci-fi MMO. "Increasingly over time the majority...
WildStar devs on the Arcterra map, dynamic events, and stew
So what do you think about WildStar's new upcoming zone, Arcterra, after yesterday's big dev blog about it? Carbine figured that players would have...
Global Chat: What is Daybreak thinking with H1Z1?
Daybreak's announcement earlier this month that it will be splitting H1Z1 into two games triggered a flood of responses from the MMO blogging community,...
Rumor: SWTOR datamining leads to megaserver speculation
According to the Star Wars: The Old Republic player-run datamining site TOR Community, the current "PvE and PvP servers are being replaced with PvE and PvP...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMORPG boss fight?
World of Warcraft's Burning Crusade was very definitely not my favorite WoW expansion, but it had some fantastic dungeons. Karazhan leaps to mind as...
Guild Wars 2 previews its next raid boss, and it’s a horror sloth
Are you ready to jump into battle against the next raid boss in Guild Wars 2? The team previewed the next boss on the...
The Tempest class and seven new content areas arrive in Devilian today
Devilian's Fury of the Tempest patch is live on the production servers today. Trion Worlds says the Tempest's ""acrobatic experience with both battle and...
RuneScape’s big 2016 plans include an expansion and graphics upgrade
RuneScape has a lot of years under its belt, and a lot of content under its hood. In fact, it's 15 for the former,...
H1Z1 pushes out patch and trailers for both of its new halves
Welcome to the glorious era of trying to keep track of dual H1Z1 games at any given time. Yesterday, Daybreak put out new one-minute trailers for...
The Stream Team: Bunnies or bust in HEX
Everyone seems to be telling Massively0P's MJ that she should abandon HEX's Shin'hare race because its deck is weak. However, MJ is pretty stubborn,...
ELOA deploys new raid dungeon, tackles spammers
ELOA's latest patch, The Lost Temple, has deployed today, with its chief addition being a raid dungeon by that same name. Need more motivation...
NCsoft’s Master X Master’s ‘global’ test due to begin soon
NCsoft has announced that the first global test for its upcoming franchise-blending MOBA Master X Master is on the way.
Curiously, the "global" test appears...
Jagex announces RuneScape: Idle Adventures
You know those moments when you are dying to get your RuneScape fix but you aren't anywhere near your computer? When you just need...
Is The Division getting endgame raids?
Is The Division getting endgame raids? That's the Reddit rumor the fans at Arekkz Gaming speculated on over the weekend. According to the rumor...
ArcheAge bans raiding guild for Leviathan exploit
One raiding guild in ArcheAge is feeling the heavy hand of studio justice this weekend, as Trion Worlds has levied the boom against over...
Massively OP’s guide to MMO podcasts
Podcasts are certainly splendid means of feeding one's MMO interests and keeping in touch with the news and community. It's always great to hear...
