PvE stands for player-vs.-environment, where environment is generally taken to mean the world, NPCs, and AI.
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Lineage II Aden kicks off a Baium’s Raid event that promises shiny loot and buffs
Video games have taught me that when an ominous-looking mystical tower that's nearly shattering to pieces from some malefic power appears, it probably needs...
Perfect Ten: The 10 NPCs you meet in MMORPGs
Is there a figure in online games that more symbolizes the thin barrier between the server database and user playerbase than the non-player character?...
Swords of Legends Online is bringing more story, new zones, and revamped raid loot in its next update
Update 2.1 is on the horizon for Swords of Legends Online, and publisher Gameforge is promising it will be a "killer update," with more...
ARK 2 heralds a 2023 release window in new trailer and opens up a Steam page
While ARK: Survival Evolved is most certainly still a thing - the survivalbox released a new map earlier this week - there's still the...
Massively Overthinking: ‘Every MMO inconvenience is someone else’s game’
A while back, someone in our comments (I can't find it again, so I can't remember who!) dug up a quote from Raph Koster...
Riot says Legends of Runeterra’s pivot from PvE to PvP is about scope and studio balance, not underperformance
Last week, Riot Games sent eyebrows flying skyward as it essentially announced a pivot from Legends of Runeterra's Path of Champions PvE mode toward...
Perfect Ten: The stupid reasons I have had for sacrificing sleep for MMOs
One of the most useful pieces of advice that I've gotten regarding making decisions for the future is also the simplest: Imagine yourself taking...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida talks about PvP design, deific lore, and characterization
Players are loving the new Duty Support feature in Final Fantasy XIV according to Naoki Yoshida. A recent interview with the producer and director...
Warhammer Online: Return of Reckoning prepares new events for the game and celebrates eight years
Things are getting deadly in Warhammer Online: Return of Reckoning starting on June 10th. Except... actually, they're sort of not? They're getting anti-deadly? Undeadly?...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go Fest 2022 was not the worst Go Fest by a long shot
Let me start off by saying Go Fest 2022 was not perfect. We saw Pokemon learning moves they weren't supposed to, Flygon learning its...
ArcheAge tweaks Garden of the Gods and opens the Dairy Cow Dreamland
We promise, we'll make the headline for this ArcheAge story make sense, especially since the game's latest update seems like a bit of a...
Legends of Runeterra plans to scale back PvE mode in favor of PvP focus as devs reshuffle to other Riot projects
Why do you play Legends of Runeterra? I promise that's not a facetious question, since the digital CCG has a base competitive PvP game...
Massively Overthinking: Making money in MMOs – easy, hard, or in-between?
A few days ago, I was hanging out in a certain MMORPG's Discord when an age-old class fight broke out - and I don't...
Lost Ark’s summer roadmap includes one new advanced class every two months
It's weird to consider that Lost Ark only launched less than four months ago, which feels like a lifetime somehow. Yet the team at...
Tamriel Infinium: The Elder Scrolls Online’s High Isle brings new story, new lands, and a new card game to Tamriel
It’s spring. The birds are chirping, the pollen is flying, and a young person’s thoughts turn to another major chapter release for The Elder...
World of Warcraft wraps up Shadowlands with today’s patch 9.2.5 and faction crossplay
As World of Warcraft increasingly turns its attention to Dragonflight, Shadowlands' days are coming to a close. With the arrival of today's mid-sized Patch...
Old School RuneScape shows off the bosses of its upcoming raid, RuneScape releases a new Yak Track
When you enter a raid in an MMORPG, boss fights are going to happen. That's just how these things are meant to work. Obviously,...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO’s new season Goes back to the biggies in June
It's always hard to be a Pokemon GO player. On the one hand, the upcoming stalker app, Campfire, shows us that someone at the...
One Shots: Modern vampire home decorating
Forget the dusty castles and damp basements of your father's Transylvania; the modern, on-the-go vampire has a refined taste that apparently includes neon caskets...
Ship of Heroes recaps housing beta, plans a second test in July
With Ship of Heroes' player housing beta in the rear-view mirror, Heroic Games is recapping the experience in its latest dev blog - and...
