pve

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

Sword and Bored: 10 rats

Larry Everett - April 6, 2015 80

Mo undertakes his first kill-ten-rats quest and boggles at the array of loot those tiny rats possess.

Marvel Heroes adds AXIS raid

Jef Reahard - April 4, 2015 16

Gazillion says that Marvel Heroes was the first online action RPG to featuring raiding, and it's following that up with a new one called...

Destiny fixes raid bugs, balances strike difficulty

Justin Olivetti - April 3, 2015 4

Both raids and strikes lie heavily upon the minds of Destiny's development team as it prepares a number of fixes in the coming Update...

Ascent is MMO space simming done right

Jef Reahard - April 3, 2015 32

My favorite thing about Ascent: The Space Game is its planetary rotation. It's a small thing, granted, but the first time I sat still...

RIFT turns a raid into an instant adventure playground

Justin Olivetti - April 3, 2015 25

Raids are usually the purview of, y'know, raiders in MMOs, which is unfortunate as much of the game's population won't get to see all...

Massively Overthinking: Crowd control in MMORPGs

Bree Royce - April 2, 2015 85

Today's Kickstarter-begotten Massively Overthinking question arrives from donor Ravenwynd, who writes, I love control type characters in mmos. City of Heroes' Mind Controller could lock down...

10 ways MMOs have changed the real world for the better

Justin Olivetti - April 2, 2015 31

Are MMOs pointless time-wasters, the bread and circuses of the modern era, or do they make positive, meaningful contributions to the real world? Well,...

EverQuest II cuts expansions, debuts DLCs with Rum Cellar

MJ Guthrie - April 1, 2015 98

With everything that has happened over the last couple of months, players are understandably curious and concerned about of the future of Daybreak Games'...

Skyforge unveils high-end content and kicks off a beta PvP event

Eliot Lefebvre - April 1, 2015 12

So what awaits you at the end of the road in Skyforge? Sure, you become a deity, but what are you actually going to...

Five players clear most of WoW’s current high-end raid

Eliot Lefebvre - March 31, 2015 35

How many players does it take to clear a high-end raid in World of Warcraft? If you said "20," you would be correct for...

Sword and Bored: Poof! Poof! Poof! Poof!

Larry Everett - March 30, 2015 103

Realizing that open PvP servers are wretched hives of scum and villainy, Mo decides to reroll.

Ghost in the Shell Online: First Connection nearing Korean CBT

Justin Olivetti - March 29, 2015 42

The popular anime franchise Ghost in the Shell will be making the transition to an MMOFPS: It prepares to start its first Korean closed...

Guild Chat: The top five ingredients in every great guild

Tina Lauro Pollock - March 29, 2015 85

Welcome to Guild Chat, my comfortable little corner of Massively Overpowered in which I dissect the inner workings and tricky politics associated with MMO...

Lost Continent: ArcheAge’s dolphingate was much ado about nothing

Jef Reahard - March 27, 2015 171

I'd like to play devil's advocate about this whole ArcheAge dolphingate thing. First, though, let me start with a disclaimer. If you've read this...

Worlds Adrift explains why it can’t disable PvP

Jef Reahard - March 26, 2015 15

Worlds Adrift has updated its website with a new design-focused blog that sheds quite a bit of light on how the game will play....

Asteroids: Outpost tests out the ore buggy

Justin Olivetti - March 23, 2015 6

Classic video game-cum-MMO Asteroids: Outpost is making strides forward in its testing, according to updates on Steam. While the game is in pre-alpha testing...