PvE stands for player-vs.-environment, where environment is generally taken to mean the world, NPCs, and AI.
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Embers Adrift welcomes The King’s Keep update with new trailer
It's patch time for the indie PvE MMO Embers Adrift, as the game updated on July 25th to include The King's Keep. This content...
Black Desert’s Land of the Morning Light finally arrives on console today
Black Desert console players are in for another treat today as Land of the Morning Light, already out on PC, has now come knocking...
Choose My Adventure: What Warhammer Return of Reckoning taught me about my competitive nature
I used to believe that I wasn't a very competitive person. Sure, I could consider myself stubborn and driven to excel, and I most...
Erenshor is a game that seeks to condense the MMORPG experience into a fully single-player title
Being able to enjoy some solo MMORPG content is never a bad option to have, but what if the entire MMO gaming experience was...
Plunder Scourge of the Sea is a pirate-themed open world survival MMO
It would be easy to dismiss this latest in-development indie MMO as "Atlas at home," but we'll try not to be reductive to either...
Blizzard promises a fix for Diablo IV’s season battle pass ‘dark pattern’ after widespread player complaints
Among the many complaints that players are leveraging against Diablo IV, one of them is arguably far more serious than class nerfs: a bit...
Lord of the Rings Online previews fall’s crafting ‘refresh’ and the new Mariner class
While River-hobbits and stat squishes are getting major attention with Lord of the Rings Online's upcoming Update 37, it hasn't stopped the studio or...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Scarlet and Violet brings out a very Normal gorilla
We now know what the July 28th-30th and August 4th-6th Pokemon Scarlet and Violet tera raid 'mon will be: Rillaboom.
While we've had some tough...
World of Warcraft’s technical director departs Blizzard after almost 23 years
Blizzard has seen another pillar of the World of Warcraft team depart the studio: Technical Director Monte Krol announced his departure in a tweet this...
Severed Lands is an upcoming sandbox MMORPG that seeks to combine PvE and PvP play
Where many other MMORPGs have tried and failed, Severed Lands hopes to succeed. This in-development sandbox MMO from the indie development studio of the...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO Routes are already problematic and unsafe
Pokemon Go and Niantic by the time you read this, will have launched a new feature: routes. While we covered the event and a...
Massively Overthinking: The MMOs that are worth their dreadful early gameplay
I think many of us are primed to roll our eyes at anyone who says "oh man, just keep playing, it gets better later...
WoW Factor: Overwatch 2’s failure offers a lesson for World of Warcraft
The weird thing about my current position is that for the first time in at least a little while, there isn't a new disaster...
Microsoft and Activision-Blizzard file a legal request for the FTC to drop its August hearing
Now that the US Federal Trade Commission has been handed two big losses in its challenge of the $69B merger between Microsoft and Activision-Blizzard,...
Fractured’s PvP-centered server war relaunch pretest has begun and runs through July 30
As promised, the indie team at Dynamight Studios has officially begun Fractured's relaunch pretest as of today. This is expected to be the largest...
Overwatch 2 arrives on Steam on August 10
So things are all going just super for Overwatch 2, as alluded to within the most recent Activision-Blizzard earnings report. So how do you...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s Niantic is sleeping on summer
Despite Niantic telling Pokemon Go players that it has a "blockbuster slate of summer features" coming up, the summer has been quite a disappointment...
Lord of the Rings Online tests the (speedy) revamped yellow-line Beorning
As Lord of the Rings Online's Update 37 goes through the paces of development, testing, and iteration, the team at Standing Stone Games keeps...
Diablo IV’s 1.1.0 patch is live ahead of this week’s Season of the Malignant launch
Diablo IV's Season of the Malignant does not technically begin until July 20th - but you can download and play patch 1.1.0 as of...
Choose My Adventure: Frustrations mount in Warhammer Return of Reckoning
Memory is a funny ol' thing. It can straight-up lie to you and convince you of something that probably wasn't even there. Or it...
