PvE stands for player-vs.-environment, where environment is generally taken to mean the world, NPCs, and AI.
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Clash of Adventurers is a free-to-play sandbox MMORPG in pre-alpha development with all the trimmings
There's something to be said about splashy introductions being tossed aside for succinct and forthright descriptions, and that most certainly is the first impression...
Wisdom of Nym: First impressions of Final Fantasy XIV’s Seekers of Eternity content
Here we are again with a new Final Fantasy XIV patch, and while there is a lot of interesting stuff happening on the story...
The Stream Team: Tuning and training for the next Final Fantasy XIV raid
MOP's Chris and his crew are coming back to Final Fantasy XIV, but some of them are not quite ready for the recently added...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO’s April update brings jokes and jewels
Pokemon Go's buyout by Scopely hasn't resulted in a full transition yet, but we're already seeing some of Scopely's influence, and it's not all...
Massively Overthinking: Do you multibox in MMORPGs?
Last week on Twitter, I saw someone refer disparagingly to EVE Online as "the multiboxing game." I want to talk about the concept of...
Vague Patch Notes: The MMO you play isn’t always the MMO that was designed
There was, for a brief period of time, a window when World of Warcraft was moving toward a more deterministic gear structure that de-emphasized...
DC Universe Online’s latest Day of Reckoning chapter, Aftershock, arrives with cross-faction leagues
The Day of Reckoning saga continues to play out in DC Universe Online, as the superhero MMO patches in Aftershock today.
"Prepare for the arrival...
Pantheon lays out a roadmap of content goals for 2025 and beyond, starting with next week’s PvP servers
Visionary Realms released its 2025 roadmap for Pantheon last night, committing to "releasing new content every six to eight weeks."
In the short term, the...
Blizzard will rez hardcore WoW Classic characters after a DDOS wiped out OnlyFangs streamers
A fascinating firestorm of events and controversy erupted in WoW Classic's hardcore scene over the past 24 hours, starting with a DDOS attack that...
Once Human launches its mobile version April 23, readies cross-character sharing for PC March 27
Once Human looks to keep bringing on more features and releases for fans of the survival shooter MMO, as the game ramps up for...
Post-apoc MMOFPS Pioner provides roughly two minutes’ worth of gameplay in latest trailer
If you've got two minutes and harbored curiosity for Pioner, the post-apocalyptic MMOFPS from Belgrade-based GFA Games that we first highlighted last December, then...
Guild Wars 2 previews April 15’s balance patch and its focus on PvE and WvW tweaks
Get your favorite clutchin' pearls ready and prepare your fingers for knee-jerk reaction posts because Guild Wars 2 has once again provided preview patch...
WoW Classic’s 20th anniversary servers are already up to Phase 3
It might only be March, but WoW Classic's newest servers are already barreling into their third phase of content.
Phase 3 landed on the servers...
Fight or Kite: PvPvE extraction game Legacy Steel and Sorcery is already showing promise in early access
Love 'em, hate 'em, or pine for the good old days, we are most certainly in the age of extraction RPGs. Just as spring...
Vague Patch Notes: If you have my money, you’d better have my video game
So over the last couple of weeks Lord of the Rings Online has made itself quite a mess to clean up. It's not the...
EverQuest II’s GU128, Lure of Darkness, begins open testing next week
If you can remember back to January, when Daybreak released full 2025 roadmaps for the EverQuest franchise, you might recall that EverQuest II set...
Crosswind is a brand-new ‘age of piracy’ survival MMO that just docked on Steam
There's a giant caveat attached to the game we're about to feature this afternoon: Developer Crosswind Crew is calling Crosswind an MMO, but it's...
NetEase is slapping the wrists of nearly 12,000 WoW China cheaters – but it did name-and-shame most of them first
Veteran MMORPG players might recall that last year, Blizzard and NetEase renewed their once-broken partnership to run World of Warcraft (and some of Blizzard's...
Casually Classic: Are the new WoW Classic servers actually a Burning Crusade ‘waiting room?’
When Blizzard abruptly announced last November that it was launching the 20th anniversary servers -- WoW Classic Classic -- the studio gave many assurances...
World of Warcraft adds the Scarlet Enclave raid in Season of Discovery phase 8, coming April 8
We're just going to head off one piece of speculation at the pass: The real Scarlet Crusade was decidedly not the friends you made...
