PvE stands for player-vs.-environment, where environment is generally taken to mean the world, NPCs, and AI.
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Amazon’s New World closed beta finally begins today – check out the trailer!
Happy beta day, New World! Yes, Amazon Games' long-awaited MMORPG is finally rolling into closed beta today as the last leg of testing -...
Destiny 2 outlines changes coming to ritual activity ranks and reputations in Season 15
Season 15 of Destiny 2 is going to be doing something a little different for its variety of regular activity reputation grinds. According to...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO Fest 2021 might be the last great GO Fest
Still cleaning out your pokemon collections, trainers? I know I still need to! Pokemon Go’s recent Go Fest 2021 was a return to form...
Hands-on with New World’s 20v20 PvPvE battleground and its newest dungeon
Last week Amazon Games held a press demo and offered up an early preview of some of the latest and greatest content coming to...
PvP sandbox Fractured is blindsided by ‘rampant’ player killing in alpha tests
With a growing studio and another major alpha test on the horizon, Fractured is taking things to the next level in 2021. Level 2,...
Massively Overthinking: The curious cycle of MMO refunds, tutorials, and reviews
MOP reader Steve recently posed us an intriguing question about the state of tutorials in MMOs and other games - and how those tutorials'...
Casually Classic: WoW Classic’s Burning Crusade entry ditch
With this year's Burning Crusade Classic, the dynamics of leveling in WoW Classic shifted just as they did originally. Before Burning Crusade came along...
Hands-on with Monster Hunter Stories 2: Teasing out the multiplayer content
So Monster Hunter Stories 2 is out in the wild now, and to be honest, the demo does the game no justice for MH fans, and...
Four Winds: MassivelyOP’s guide to getting started in Swords of Legends Online
It's a strange trend whenever new MMOs launch that there's a deluge of tutorial videos on a bunch of topics but a shortage of...
Vague Patch Notes: Playerbase size doesn’t have to be everything in MMOs
I'm already worried about Crowfall. Not because of personal experiences, mind you; I haven't yet played it or anything, and all I have to...
New World previews its 20v20 PvPvE battleground, Outpost Rush
Ahead of the beta later this month, Amazon has posted a new video on New World's PvP - specifically, on Outpost Rush. This mode...
World of Warcraft’s finale for the Sanctum of Domination raid reveals a major character’s fate
We try really hard to avoid spoilers here when we're talking about story stuff on Massively Overpowered. It's possible, for example, that you are...
The Daily Grind: Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever played an MMO?
A few weeks ago, I logged into WoW Classic and was chatting with my guild when one of our community made a startling confession:...
Blizzard retools World of Warcraft’s Mythic Dungeon International, offers $380K prize pool
Scoff all you want at MMORPG esports, but Blizzard has a nice chunk of change on offer for World of Warcaft's Mythic Dungeon International....
TitanReach answers questions about development, items, and future content
The devs of the indie MMO TitanReach decided that it was time to pluck a few player questions and provide some answers to those...
Mortal Online 2 adds new enemies and improved PvE AI behaviors in newest patch
If the preview video from Mortal Online 2 got you excited at the prospect of being smashed by a giant troll, your moment of...
Swords of Legends Online’s AMA addresses monetization, content, and name reservation SNAFU
At the tail end of June, Swords of Legends Online threw out a whole bunch of event dates including a livestream and an AMA,...
WoW Factor: Why Blizzard’s line about story beats is so frustrating
So the most recent roundup of interviews with World of Warcraft's staff deeply hurt me on a fundamental level. Like, this was the sort...
SWTOR announces Legacy of the Sith expansion with new planet, PvE content, and combat styles
Star Wars The Old Republic fans, it's time to get excited, at least if you missed the leaks from early today, as during its...
Swords of Legends Online reveals post-launch roadmap and battle pass systems
If you missed Gameforge's Swords of Legends Online stream last night, you missed some big announcements that are appeasing the game's fledgling community, including...