PvE stands for player-vs.-environment, where environment is generally taken to mean the world, NPCs, and AI.
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MMO Week in Review: The future of EverQuest Next [May 3, 2015]
Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMOÂ news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered's Week in Review!
You...
EVE Evolved: Seven years of EVE Evolved
When I started writing about EVE Online for Massively back in 2008, the MMO genre was really hitting its stride, and emerging sites like...
Project Genom gameplay video shows off its high-tech weapons
The sci-fi shooter Project Genom is making great strides with its post-Unreal Engine 4 transition, and the dev team put together a new gameplay...
Trailer shows off today’s big Dragon’s Prophet EU update
Dragon's Prophet players in Europe have a handful of inhospitable new lands to explore filled with vicious new species to vanquish thanks to today's...
Working As Intended: Ten lessons I learned from classic Guild Wars
Guild Wars -- the first Guild Wars -- celebrates its 10th birthday this week alongside several of my characters who are equally old. I originally...
The Saga of Lucimia focuses on ‘group-based emergent gameplay’
The days of coddling solo players through a massively multiplayer experience are over -- at least according to one upstart indie MMO.
Meet The Saga...
Guild Chat: Guild size and its effect on cohesion
Welcome along to Guild Chat, my cozy corner of the internet in which we can discuss all things guilds, the place where we all...
The Crew publishes ‘Raid Live’ update video
Ubisoft has announced that a new update and new car DLC for its racing game The Crew are now live. The Raid Car Pack, "the...
EverQuesting: A guide to EverQuest II’s dungeons
It's no secret that EverQuest II has a plethora of quests. The moniker surely fits: There are so many quests that it's impossible to...
Master x Master adds WildStar’s Mondo Zax to its final beta test
Fans of WildStar who also have access to Korean beta tests will probably be quite happy to hear that Mondo Zax, Chua inventor extraordinaire,...
Lineage II: Infinite Odyssey is live today
The latest update to Lineage II is pushing beyond all of the its various limitations. Tired of the level cap? It's gone. No, not...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s Stronghold PvP
The PvP team at ArenaNet is steadily gearing up for the release of the Heart of Thorns expansion, with the PvP-inclined among the Guild Wars...
WoW Factor: The WoW token and the upcoming patch
Since the last edition of WoW Factor, two big things hit World of Warcraft in quick succession. The first is that the much-discussed WoW...
Massively Overthinking: The pure PvE ‘niche’ of MMORPGs
This week's Massively Overthinking question is posed by Kickstarter donor Winterskorn, who wants to talk about something getting less and less love in MMORPGs lately: PvE.
"There...
RIFT’s 3.2 Echoes of Madness patch is now available
Trion wants you to know that RIFT's 3.2 patch is officially live. Echoes of Madness adds a 20-player Hammerknell raid and improvements to instant...
Raph Koster explains Star Wars Galaxies’ TEF PvP system
A long time ago on a website far, far away, we were having a discussion about modern MMOs and their inability to make sandboxes more than thinly disguised...
Trion is upping RIFT’s daily and weekly quest rewards in 3.2
Trion has posted a note on RIFT's official forums confirming that it will be upping the rewards for daily and weekly quests in tomorrow's...
Forsaken World is getting a mobile edition
Could we be on the verge of an MMO mobile gaming revolution? Several mobile versions of Asian MMOs are in the making, including Aion...
El Somni Quas draws upon classic Ultima Online for an old-school MMO experience
It's interesting to see how players who have grown up under the influence of certain MMOs are now making their own games drawing from...
World of Warcraft 6.2 adds new dungeon difficulty, zone
If you thought the first major patch of Warlords of Draenor seemed a bit thin on content, you'll be happier with World of Warcraft's...