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PvE stands for player-vs.-environment, where environment is generally taken to mean the world, NPCs, and AI.

Lord of the Rings Online teases something ‘weird’ for next weekend

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Surfing the wave of Lord of the Rings Online's Update 35 and its mammoth notes and system changes, Standing Stone Games said that the...

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen discusses its take on open world design and its effects on gameplay and dungeons

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Readers surely already know that Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen will be an open world MMORPG, which in turn arguably carries quite a lot...
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Wisdom of Nym: Recurring Final Fantasy XIV systems we could probably get rid of

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At this point, Final Fantasy XIV has had a long time to get into a pretty reliable cadence that has not changed substantially beyond...

Not So Massively: Wolcen’s Endgame is one of online gaming’s all-time worst blunders

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Speaking as a long-time fan of the game, I think the post-launch management of Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem has been an absolute mess. There...

Aion Classic officially launches in Europe on April 12 – here’s Gameforge’s new trailer

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After a brief delay, Gameforge has officially announced today that Aion Classic will launch for the European playerbase on April 12th, following its 2021...
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Overwatch 2’s director discusses balancing, collabs, rewards, and Season 4 competitive play updates

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With six months of work on the team vs. team shooter Overwatch 2 now under his belt, director Aaron Keller is taking a moment...

Dungeons and Dragons Online hands out free questing coupons to all

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I've long held the opinion that Dungeons and Dragons Online is one of the more underrated MMORPGs on the market, especially with its narration,...

Massively Overthinking: The times MMO developers admitted they were… wrong

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Earlier in March, Jagex did the unthinkable for an MMORPG company: It admitted it was wrong about something. If you're used to the Blizzards...

Casually Classic: How permadeath runs are revitalizing WoW Classic

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While I don't have any hard data on the subject, just observing the World of Warcraft Classic scene (and ABK's financials) over the past...

Fight or Kite: Faeria is a cross between a card game and skirmishing boardgame

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Look, up in the sky! It’s a card game! It’s a skirmishing boardgame! It’s Faeria! Yes, it's Faeria, a strange digital mashup from developer...

Lord of the Rings Online’s Return to Carn Dûm launches today with new dungeons and the Warden/Captain revamps

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It's patch day for Lord of the Rings Online, and update 35 is is no small patch: It's Return to Carn Dûm, which rolls...

The Daily Grind: Do you still craft in MMOs where crafting is pointless?

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I could swap out the words "craft" and "crafting" in the question in today's Daily Grind topic and I think the same point would...

Derek Smart posts video for impending return of 14-year-old MMORPG Alganon

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The story of Alganon has not always been a pretty one, as we've covered as far back as 2010, when a row started between...

Interview: Century Age of Ashes looks to the future of PvE and balance as Season 2 begins March 21

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There are a lot of things changing for the horizon of the co-op and competitive dragon-riding battler Century: Age of Ashes. Players already know...

The MOP Up: Guild Wars 2 reworks its Gyala Delve meta-event

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Guild Wars 2 pushed out a patch last week that adjusted how the Gyala Delve meta-event functions and doles out rewards. Part of this...

EverQuest II community accuses Daybreak of pay-to-win over raid chests

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A recent addition to EverQuest II has a portion of its community accusing Daybreak of blatant pay-to-win practices. The issue ties in with a personal...

Destiny 2 begins its next exotic weapon quest and Trials of Osiris, readies Iron Banner, and tweaks Guardian ranks

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Regular players of Destiny 2 are likely already familiar with some of the new content and chases applied to the game recently, but for...
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Vague Patch Notes: How WildStar’s first dungeon killed me

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This is the story of a girl who ran a dungeon in WildStar's world, and while it looks all right in photographs, I absolutely...

Black Desert PC starts the seventh anniversary afterparty and makes PvE tweaks to some of its classes

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There has been a whole lot of seventh anniversary celebration going on in the PC version of Black Desert, but this week is seeing...

Massively on the Go: Why Pokemon Go elite raids fail while Scarlet/Violet tera raids fly

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As we recently noted while updating our March Pokemon Go event round-up, Niantic has somehow made the already hated Elite Raids even worse. The...

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