PvE stands for player-vs.-environment, where environment is generally taken to mean the world, NPCs, and AI.
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Lost Ark KR offers a preview video of the Abrelshud raid ahead of its July 28 launch
We're appreciative that Lost Ark is headed to our side of the globe, and we're not going to look the gift horse of the...
Massively Overthinking: Load-bearing playerbases in MMORPGs
Game developer Damion Schubert is known to MMO players for his work on everything from Ultima Online to SWTOR, but as it turns out,...
Swords of Legends Online launches a summer event and battle pass, previews its first raid in a livestream
The summer season has officially arrived to Swords of Legends Online, bringing along some new activities and a new battle pass full of cosmetics....
Players sound the alarm over faction balance in World of Warcraft: Classic
Well, World of Warcraft might be struggling right now, but at least everything's going peachy over on WoW Classic, right? Not so much, really....
Perfect Ten: The 10 stages of returning to an old favorite MMO
In my illustrious career of sitting on my butt and mashing the 1-4 buttons over and over, I've returned to many MMOs like an...
Casually Classic: Why it’s so good to Zangarmarsh and chill in WoW Classic
Burning Crusade's Outland shows all the hallmarks of being a playground for developers to flex and try new things. I always was amused at...
Black Desert’s Atoraxxion dungeon is live for PC and console today
As promised, Atoraxxion has rolled out to Black Desert's PC and console versions today. What's Atoraxxion? Why, it's the game's first-ever traditional co-up dungeon....
Blizzard further experiments with WoW Classic’s same-faction battlegrounds
Implementing same-faction battlegrounds for some of the wildly unbalanced WoW Classic servers seemed to us to be a no-brainer, but Blizzard isn't fully happy...
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...