PvE stands for player-vs.-environment, where environment is generally taken to mean the world, NPCs, and AI.
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Aussie indie MMORPG Spiritvale scores almost $250K on Kickstarter ahead of July early access
Since the end of last year, we've been covering SpiritVale, a hypercute MMORPG from an indie dev out of Australia. The game hit Kickstarter...
Upcoming fantasy MMO Scars of Honor thanked alpha testers for breaking the game
It's been a month since "tens of thousands of players" tried out Scars of Honor's technical alpha, resulting in a lot of feedback and...
Perfect Ten: The 10 worst problems in the MMORPG community that we could probably fix
Do you remember when smoking was just a thing everyone had to put up with in public all the time, everywhere? If you're old...
NCsoft’s upcoming post-apoc shooter Cinder City, still on track for 2026, launches Steam page and new video
We've had our eye on NCsoft's Cinder City for years now; you might recall it was once touted to investors as Project LLL. But...
Final Fantasy XIV says Dawntrail’s Arcadion raids will be ‘a firm guideline’ for fights in Evercold
One of the most common opinions held among Final Fantasy XIV players is that the Arcadion raid series introduced in Dawntrail were the pinnacle of...
The MOP Up: Sky Children of the Light creates an interactive Vincent van Gogh exhibit
You may have appreciated Vincent van Gogh's paintings before, but this month in Sky Children of the Light, you can go into his art...
Destiny 2 almost got an honest-to-goodness dating sim, but leadership gave it a ‘hard no’
Show of hands: Who here would unironically (or even ironically) play a dating sim game based around Destiny 2? Because apparently that was something that...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Fumes, Battle for Embolia, and Enarian Online
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of! In this roundup, we've got car combat, a visually pretty MUD, and a...
Wildgate ‘hasn’t found a large enough audience to sustain ongoing development,’ but it’s staying online
Here's a bit of a bummer to end out the week: Multiplayer extraction RPG Wildgate, which was developed by Dustin Browder's Moonshot Games and...
Casually Classic: What were vanilla World of Warcraft’s weaknesses?
Last week, I offered my perspective on what I thought were the four greatest strengths that the original vanilla version of World of Warcraft...
Throne and Liberty officially launches its summer expansion, Frozen Divide Nix, today
Amazon and NCsoft are throwing down a gauntlet (pun fully intended) with the launch of Throne and Liberty's big summer expansion today. Dubbed Frozen...
New Aion 2 dev video confirms monetization plans and features for the September global launch
Western MMORPG fans have known for some time now that Aion 2 would be headed for our part of the globe - in September, in...
Villagers & Heroes starts a new season of raids and improves the auction house in Talon’s Grip update
It's very important that Villagers & Heroes provide content for both sides of its title. So, for the "heroes" side of thing, the 12th season...
Dune Awakening adds five new Landsraad missions and nerfs ornithopter joyride cheesing in today’s patch
It's patch day over in Dune Awakening, as what Funcom is calling a "large patch" has arrived. The major additions in the update are...
Corepunk’s servers go offline today for a major progression wipe and ‘great reset’ update
OK listen up, game devs. I very much need you to stop posting things to your Discord that for even one second suggest that...
Lost Ark’s summer roadmap teases a clock-wielding Warpweaver class for September
If Throne and Liberty doesn't have all your Amazon attention this week, that might be because you're a Lost Ark player hungry for senpai...
The Daily Grind: Are you upset that Guild Wars 3 seems to be ditching the zerg?
If you've been reading between the lines of what ArenaNet has been saying about what open-world Guild Wars 3 gameplay will look like, then...
A team of Anarchy Online F2P ‘froobs’ defeated the MMORPG’s final raid boss after two years of prep
Restrictions on free-to-play characters aren't exactly new to MMORPGs that also offer a subscription, which is the case for the classic Anarchy Online. However,...
Now there’s a new TurtleWoW World of Warcraft rogue server spinoff called OctoWoW
Sure, Blizzard stomped down the World of Warcraft rogue server TurtleWoW in court, but that apparently doesn't mean that this is the end of...
The MOP Up: Albion Online teases a new July event
Hope your competitive genes are fired up, because Albion Online has a new event coming your way next month: "Starting July 4, the Keeper...
