PvE stands for player-vs.-environment, where environment is generally taken to mean the world, NPCs, and AI.
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Mad World’s latest patch adds more dungeons, new areas, a PvP arena, and crafting tweaks
Jandisoft's MMOARPG Mad World is continuing to crank out the updates this week, with the latest introducing more new areas and adjustments to existing...
Blizzard suggests WoW Token RMT in WoW Classic is ‘for the good of the community’ because of RMT bots
World of Warcraft's WoW Classic community has been on fire for the last few days following Blizzard's announcement that it will port the WoW...
Funcom belatedly remembers Age of Conan’s 15th birthday with dev blog and event
Yesterday, we cheekily pointed out that Funcom appeared to have forgotten Age of Conan's 15th birthday back on the 20th of May, in spite...
Will Smith headlines Tencent’s mobile survival MMO Undawn, launching June 15
Tencent's Level Infinite and LightSpeed Studios have announced today that Undawn is coming in June - June 15th, to be exact. The post-apoc open-world...
World of Warcraft’s wrapup quest for patch 10.1 requires killing the last boss of the raid to advance
The final story campaign quest for World of Warcraft's patch 10.1 requires killing the final boss of Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible. This is not...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 423: The Overwatch MMO we’ll never get
Justin and Bree discuss Amazon's LOTR title and shade for LOTRO, Overwatch 2's PvE debacle, Worlds Adrift's return as Lost Skies, and delays for Nightingale, Ashfall, and Wayfinder, with adventures in LOTRO and Torchlight II, plus mailbag topics on character build freedom and the natural and unnatural ends of MMO characters.
New World announces second season, Blood of the Sands, launching July 6
Amazon just announced New World's second season, dubbed Blood of the Sands and due out on July 6 with a rather DUNE-like theme, right...
Conan Exiles announces June 22 Age of War as Age of Conan’s 15th anniversary slips by in silence
Funcom may have let Saturday's 15th birthday of Age of Conan slip by unheralded and unremarked, but it did take the moment to announce...
The Daily Grind: Would you have played the Overwatch 2 MMO Blizzard envisioned?
One of the overlooked bits from the mea culpa blog from the Overwatch 2 PvE cancelation fiasco last week is the unprompted reveal that...
Not So Massively: Godsworn is Warcraft III meets Age of Mythology
It's a testament to how far the RTS genre has fallen that Steam's recent Tacticon festival of strategy games featured almost no RTS titles,...
Sci-fi shooter ARC Raiders expands its scope and genre to include survival-style PvPvE
If you heard the initial announcement of ARC Raiders back in 2021 and quickly dismissed the game for being nothing more than a PvP...
Wisdom of Nym: Top takeaways from Final Fantasy XIV’s The Dark Throne patch notes
I have to say that whole "preliminary" patch notes thing that Final Fantasy XIV has been pulling for years now has begun to wear...
Destiny 2 outlines Season 21 weapon changes and condenses all of next week’s updates
The Season of the Deep is rapidly approaching Destiny 2 and that means change is a-comin'. One of the things that are changing are...
Genshin Impact’s in-game TCG is getting an in-game tournament, more modes, and more cards May 24
The Genius Invokation trading card game-within-a-game of Genshin Impact is going to see a whole bunch of updates on Wednesday, May 24th. That's when...
Overwatch 2 director attempts to take back control of the narrative over PvE cancellation
It hasn't been a fun week to be Aaron Keller, game director of Overwatch 2 and one of the people taking the brunt of...
The Soapbox: Raiding isn’t the problem with World of Warcraft
It is by now clear that World of Warcraft's Dragonflight expansion hasn't exactly set the world on fire. This has set off another round...
Massively Overthinking: Solving the MMO gear obsolescence problem
Last weekend, Amazon told players in a New World Discord Q&A that the expansion still on the way will essentially nullify existing gear to...
Aion Classic is granting sub benefits to North American players for a whole month
Aion Classic is having a bit of a moment this spring. It finally launched for European players, and then the North American branch launched...
WoW Factor: Tarisland and the cargo cult of World of Warcraft
We've all made jokes about Tarisland being "we have World of Warcraft at home." That's just a fun thing to make jokes about, and...
Mad World’s Steam version is still MIA while an exploit in latest patch requires a three-hour rollback
It's time once again to see how things are going with the hell-made Mad World, and we're sorry to report that things are still...
