PvE stands for player-vs.-environment, where environment is generally taken to mean the world, NPCs, and AI.
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World of Titans plans ‘major facelift,’ November 2023 release, and closed testing soon
World of Titans, aka TitanReach (or Titan Reach depending on the chronology), has had one extremely weird and eyebrow-raising journey in case that opening...
WoW Factor: Potential destinations for the next World of Warcraft expansion
We have a BlizzCon coming up in November. This strikes me as a phenomenally bad idea, like someone proposed it in a meeting to...
Not So Massively: Despite everything, Overwatch 2’s story missions deliver an epic experience
After a long wait, a tortured development, a great deal of cutting back on features, and endless controversy, the PvE update for Overwatch 2...
Overwatch 2’s Invasion PvE makes both devs and players regret what could’ve been
Normally, the release of a hefty amount of content would be a cause for celebration and unannounced days off work. But when it comes...
New World’s Luck of the Bones portal-summoning event looks somehow familiar
If you're starting to feel a little sluggish about New World's current season, fear not because Amazon is preparing a little pick-me-up in the...
Diablo Immortal launches a PvP event, temporarily changes gem drop rates, and makes its PC release
Today marks another update for Diablo Immortal that brings a host of events and updates for the mobile OARPG. Or at least the formerly...
Lost Ark’s August-December roadmap heralds new continents, jump-start servers, and more
Yesterday, when Amazon finally put a date on the release of Lost Ark's Aeromancer, it also teased more information en route. That info is...
Perfect Ten: Every expansion era of World of Warcraft ranked
For a long time, I have been considering this particular column just because, well, it's an obvious one. If you have a column whose...
Overwatch 2: Invasion gets a trailer ahead of its release on Thursday
We don't really need to recount the whole saga of how badly Overwatch 2 has bungled things with its PvE content because we've been...
Tarisland outlines planned changes to dungeons, raids, and the Universal Hall
The post-beta processing continues from Tarisland; first Tencent talked about class adjustments, then about PvP, and now it's zeroing in on PvE updates that...
This WoW Classic addon adds AI-generated voiceover to every quest NPC in the game
There is a lot of quest text to read through in World of Warcraft Classic, so the prevailing solution has been to absolutely blitz...
Destiny 2 deep-dives Season 22 as Bungie pursues cheat seller ring in court
With the current Season of the Deep now having roughly three weeks left to it, Destiny 2 is looking to the season ahead to...
Overwatch 2 enlists John Cena to hawk August’s PvE story missions – and the associated bundle purchase
It would appear as if Overwatch 2 is going to some lengths to promote August 10th's Invasion update. Blizzard decided to introduce a hacker...
Cabal’s mobile spinoff, Cabal Return of Action, runs through a closed beta test this weekend
The 15-year-long Cabal Online series is about to get its newest member -- and you have a shot to participate in an early preview...
Mad World outlines updates to its gem system in developer Q&A
If you've ever played any OARPG, you know that socketing gems into equipment is a big part of the character progression process, and that's...
Massively on the Go: Orna’s pet-battler is fluffy – but not cheap
Usually here on Massively on the Go, we have a lot of good things to say about Orna: The GPS RPG and its dev...
Design Mockument: What would a Transformers MMORPG even look like?
Everyone who has read my work here for a while knows that a Transformers MMORPG is a longstanding element of my pie-in-the-sky wishlist. This...
EverQuest’s Living Legacy Raid event returns for a month of carnage
Debuting in 2008, Living Legacy was a promotional bundle designed to bring EverQuest players back into the fold before morphing into a raid-centered festival....
Perfect Ten: 10 memorable MMO marketing campaigns from the genre’s past
Believe it or not, MMOs get off easy when it comes to notorious marketing campaigns. Anything on the following list, good or bad, is...
Aion Classic EU announces 2.0 Storm in Balaurea with new zones, instances, and a level cap bump
European Aion players, ready your wings, as Gameforge is rolling out Update 2.0: Storm in Balaurea to Aion Classic at some point in what's...
