PvE stands for player-vs.-environment, where environment is generally taken to mean the world, NPCs, and AI.
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Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s October events are early with tricks if not treats
Pokemon Go news this month feels like Christmas. We usually don't get news until days before the new month starts, if that. But this...
Destiny 2 shows off the new supers coming in The Final Shape and keeps fighting crafted weapon glitches
Every expansion of Destiny 2 brings new supers to the game's three classes, but since there won't be any new element in The Final...
New World offers advice for newbies, returnees, PvE, and PvP players heading into Rise of the Angry Earth
Amazon's New World has two chunks of news for players eager to head into Aeternum before the Rise of the Angry Earth expansion in...
Elder Scrolls Online’s update 40 and Endless Archive are on the PTR as ZeniMax eyes Japanese console launch
ZeniMax Online Studios is wasting no time putting MMO gamers to work testing Elder Scrolls Online's Endless Archive content, as update 40 has already...
Conan Exiles marches onward to a purge-filled chapter two of the Age of War today
Funcom has made good on its promise to expand Conan Exiles with the launch of the second chapter of the Age of War, the...
Overwatch 2 is re-running past content for all three weeks of its first birthday events
Can you believe it's already been almost a year since Blizzard pushed Overwatch 2 out the door without the key thing that set it...
New World rebuts ‘pay-to-win’ accusations from PvPers eyeing Rise of the Angry Earth’s item level bumps
Amazon's Scot Lane, David Verfaillie, and Katy Kaszynski are back with a new video for New World, its 50th Forged in Aeternum, and because...
The MOP Up: World of Warcraft’s mighty banhammer strikes once more
World of Warcraft announced that it banned 145,566 accounts in August, saying, "All of these actions were for cheating or exploitation, which primarily result...
Destiny 2 announces plans to completely remove legendary shards currency from the game
Legendary shards are one of those currencies that Destiny 2 players can either have too much of or not enough of, and that can...
DC Universe Online begins testing a cursed Gotham City with Episode 46
Batman's backyard is taking a beating in DC Universe Online's newest outing. Episode 46: Justice League Dark Cursed went up on the test server...
PvPvE Project F4E dates its next playtest for October 5
The testing continues on for Project F4E, the co-op PvE-focused MOBA PvPvE title being developed by BetaDwarf Studios that we've been keeping track of...
Zenith begins testing Ascension patch and revamped starter experience
VR MMORPG Zenith is looking ahead to its next big update: It's called Ascension, and though it has no launch window just yet, the...
WoW Factor: MMO raid design and the antagonistic GM
Last week's column about World of Warcraft prompted some really interesting comments that I think are worth talking about; in fact, I very nearly...
Elder Scrolls Online’s update 40 and Endless Archive repeatable content launch October 30
As promised, last night ZeniMax Online unveiled Elder Scrolls Online's fourth big update of 2023 and the Necrom-backed plotline, and it's maybe not what...
Hearthstone announces the Fall of Ulduar mini-set’s September 19 release
Nothing brings the party to a digital CCG quite like an unknowable extraplanar Old God who is, according to the wiki, "responsible for many...
Trove’s Battle of Fire and Ice event pits yetis against dragons in tomb-raiding combat
Yetis doing battle with dragons in a bid to win the Battle of Fire and Ice. It sounds like delightful young adult fantasy novel...
Diablo IV’s latest patch applies promised seasonal XP earnings adjustments
The Um of Aggression sounds like someone forgot what the item's name is meant to be ("It's the um... of aggression... Goblet? Satchel?"), but...
Dungeons and Dragons Online debuts new Vecna Unleashed raid
Ready to roll for initiative? You're going to need all the edge you can get to tackle Dungeons and Dragons Online's newest raid, which...
Lost Ark’s jump-start servers arrive tomorrow with the Jump to the Endgame patch
Are you over last month's massive Lost Ark outage that kept the servers offline for a whole day following the EU region merge? With...
Choose My Adventure: Slayer time with slightly boosted XP in Lost Ark
So I kind of made a mistake in my comeback to Lost Ark. I apparently did have at least one Powerpass to burn up,...
