PvE stands for player-vs.-environment, where environment is generally taken to mean the world, NPCs, and AI.
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Perfect Ten: Solid MMOs you might be sleeping on in 2023
For today's list, I wanted to take a different approach to recommending MMORPGs to you. I know we often talk about underrated titles, but...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO would actually be better if it killed its whole endgame?
Let's have some provocative fun this morning. Let's imagine that your favorite MMORPG suddenly decided to kill its entire endgame. The devs are shaving...
Tencent’s mobile and PC multiplayer survival RPG Undawn opens the Island of the Mist
Are you ready for more map space, more events, more story, and even less Will Smith in Undawn? Then you're the kind of player...
Wisdom of Nym: Reactions to Final Fantasy XIV’s London Fan Festival
So we've gotten 67% of the way through the fan festival cycle for Final Fantasy XIV, and that means taking a certain degree of...
Star Citizen’s second day of CitizenCon shows updates to character creation, FPS gameplay, flight, and frontier locations
With day two of CitizenCon now closed, everything that's currently in the works for Star Citizen has been shared by CIG, and we're here...
Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival London reveals: Viper, zones, and Echoes of Vana’diel
It's time for more reveals for the Final Fantasy XIV fans in the audience as the London Fan Festival has begun, and that means...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Mortal Kombat Onslaught, DC Dual Force, Definya, Project Mist
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer titles you've (probably) never heard of!
Mortal Kombat Onslaught: This Warner Bros. multiplayer mobile...
Dual Universe hands out titles and goodies to top contributors of a PvE mission campaign
When PvE missions came to Dual Universe in June, it opened up a number of things for the players and for developer Novaquark, such...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s Party Play is peak Niantic
Pokemon Go's newest feature, Party Play, is out now, and it's... well, very Niantic. Since the feature was first datamined, it seemed like it...
WoW Factor: This time will not be different
The other day, I got a nasty email from a World of Warcraft fan. This is not inherently unusual; it happens a couple of...
Tarisland is overhauling everything from dungeon difficulty to class roles ahead of November CBT
Tencent's Tarisland has another dev post on the official site today with an update on how the team is revising PvE ahead of the...
Massively Overthinking: What’s next for Blizzard under Microsoft?
So the Microsoft acquisition of Activision-Blizzard is basically a done deal. Oh, sure, the FTC is still fumbling around with hapless appeals, but look,...
Fortnite embeds an official Alan Wake gameplay experience as Fortnitemares is underway
Who wouldn't want to play the somber and atmospheric Alan Wake within the cartoon-y and generally more colorful pastiche of Fortnite? Yes, it's true:...
Sea of Thieves Season 10 adds guilds and combat updates now, readies new voyage and PvE mode later
After a multi-month delay, there's finally a new season to play in Sea of Thieves. Season 10 has officially launched today, bringing with it...
Casually Classic: WoW Classic’s leveling journey shows how much retail has lost its way
In the past six months, I've been tracking a very interesting conversation that's arisen over what the MMORPG genre as a whole has lost...
Tarisland teases a PvE map inspired by a copper mine in Chile
Tencent's not-a-WoW-clone Tarisland dropped a cute preview of a zone (its last location preview was back in July, so this has been a long...
Villagers and Heroes brings back raids, ushers in Halloween Horde of Horrors
There's an ill moon hanging over Villagers and Heroes these days. Wait, did we say "ill?" We meant "chill." A totally chill moon over...
Evercore Heroes dev continues internal work on Project R revamp, now in the ‘awkward transition phase’
The shrinking of the PvE-focused MOBA/MMO Evercore Heroes continues. Readers will recall that the original game's paid closed beta didn't draw enough buyers to...
Perfect Ten: Myths about balance in MMOs
For some MMO players, "balance" is a dirty word. And I'm not going to lie, I can hardly blame them. If you're not a...
Old School RuneScape previews its next wave survival activity, reruns last year’s Halloween event
Old School RuneScape is once again bursting at the seams with all sorts of news and updates, from future plans to current events and...
