PvE stands for player-vs.-environment, where environment is generally taken to mean the world, NPCs, and AI.
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The Game Archaeologist: Anarchy Online
"The future in your hands."
This was Funcom's promise to gamers in the early days of the 2000s. Even as the MMORPG genre slowly took...
Destiny: The Taken King breaks PlayStation records
If you had any doubt that Destiny is a huge force in the online world right now, Activision's announcement that the game is smashing...
DC Universe Online’s GU52 is live
Game Update 52 went live in DC Universe Online earlier today, according to the superhero MMO's Twitter feed. Patch notes for the drop were...
Classic EverQuest is getting a new expansion with ‘level agnostic’ raids too
EverQuest players who felt a little green with envy at the news that EverQuest II was to be treated to a full-fledged expansion should...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Imperial City DLC is now on consoles
Cyrodiil's capital district is now available on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 systems. Elder Scrolls Online's Imperial City DLC pack includes new PvE and...
Marvel Heroics: Rating Squirrel Girl and Cyclops
Like many kids who grew up in the 1980s, I developed a deep fondness for action figures, including G.I. Joe and Transformers. I'll never...
Skyforge pushes Aelion’s Call to live, prepares for Mechanoid Invasion
Skyforge's massive Aelion's Call patch is live, bringing with it a host of changes and improvements to the game. Chief among them is the new...
Neverwinter’s strongholds are under siege
As of today, Neverwinter's large guild strongholds are prime targets for PvP aggression.
Cryptic patched in the new siege system which allows for guilds to...
EverQuest II’s 12th expansion will be a legit expansion
Daybreak's Holly "Windstalker" Longdale has just announced that EverQuest II's next major content will be a true expansion.
Our next expansion release is right around...
MMO Mechanics: Economic stagnation in MMO economies
MMO economies are notoriously hard to balance, so most MMO players have seen the effects of stagnation and hyperinflation in an MMO economy for...
Mythros builds an MMO out of Minecraft
We've certainly been witnessing a rise of Minecraft-inspired MMOs over the past year, including Trove and SkySaga. Now there's an MMO that actually uses...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2 raiding factsheet
If you're anything like me, you'll have been bursting at the seams to find out what shape the promised "challenging group content" will take...
Skyforge previews its next major update, Aelion’s Call
It hasn't been all that long since the first major update to Skyforge, but the developers are pushing full steam ahead on the game's...
Global Chat: Money prison
What kind of prison charges you money to stay there? An MMO prison, obviously!
The Ancient Gaming Noob has a few insightful words to say...
Cabal II brings in battle arenas, ranking system on Thursday
Gladiator combat is the focus of Cabal II's upcoming Trial of Champions patch, which is slated to go live on September 10th.
Thursday's patch will add...
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s Jedi Knight and Sith Warrior changes aren’t bad
It's been two weeks since I visited Star Wars: The Old Republic in this column, and it's clear that two weeks is far too long...
A wicked hive of synth and vibrancy: First impressions of Otherland
I first covered Otherland, the Gamigo-turned-Drago MMORPG based on Tad Williams' sci-fi book series by the same name, at E3 2012. The idea of having...
Guild Wars 2 unleashes fresh Mordrem event next week and blogs about raids
ArenaNet just confirmed the rumors it sparked about a Mordrem event coming to Guild Wars 2:
From 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (UTC-7) on September 10 through...
Skyforge dares you to enter its hostile territories
Group content in MMOs doesn't always have to mean "dungeon crawls" and "raids." For example, Skyforge has its hostile territories, challenging world zones that require...
PAX Prime 2015: Guild Wars 2 is never getting a PUG raid finder
Guild Wars 2 set its fanbase on edge this last week on Twitter and at PAX prime. We learned that raids are coming to GW2 with...
