PvE stands for player-vs.-environment, where environment is generally taken to mean the world, NPCs, and AI.
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Casually Classic: Three things I’m anticipating (and three I’m dreading) for WoW’s Burning Crusade Classic
With the Burning Crusade Classic beta underway, it's hard not to be dwelling on the near future of WoW Classic. Everyone's maneuvering their accounts,...
Fight or Kite: For Honor is still the only viking vs. samurai vs. knight game for me
Many moons ago, in the simpler times of 2017, Ubisoft delivered a fantastical game that sought to bring a close to the question all...
Wisdom of Nym: Reacting to the latest Final Fantasy XIV live letter
The one down side to Square's most recent live letter was the simple reality that it didn't get to deliver on the tradition of...
Massively on the Go: Mother Nintendo should make Niantic Earthbound
So, Nintendo and Niantic will work together for more AR games based on Nintendo IPs. No great surprise from me, as I'd mentioned years...
Darkfall Rise of Agon launches in China as the western version revives player cities
Remember back in February when the two devs working on Darkfall Rise of Agon announced they were making a huge move: partnering with an...
WoW Factor: We’re waiting how long for Shadowlands’ patch 9.1, now?
So it looks like World of Warcraft's next patch is going up for testing on the week of April 12th. What the heck is happening? At...
Final Fantasy XIV shows off a trailer for patch 5.5, Death Unto Dawn
The next patch for Final Fantasy XIV is not far off at this point, arriving on April 13th, and players can now feast their...
Stick and Rudder: Five potentially stupid yet fun Elite Dangerous spaceship builds
Even though I've logged a total of 112 hours of Elite: Dangerous at the time of this writing, I'm still pretty much a noob...
World of Warcraft will start testing patch 9.1 soon, unveils a world buff storage device for Classic
It's been an unusually long time since the launch of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands for the game to have not released its first major patch...
EverQuest II dives into the Plane of Shadows with this week’s content drop
The days may be getting longer, but that only means that the shadows are increasing in force. Yesterday, EverQuest II dared its players to...
Casually Classic: In defense of a good ‘looking for group’ tool in World of Warcraft
While World of Warcraft certainly made a number of questionable design decisions over the years, for my money one of the absolute best moves...
Last Oasis Season 3 breaks the map into Small Realms and brings the survival sandbox to Xbox Game Preview
It's been one year since the woodpunk survival sandbox Last Oasis arrived to early access, and this time around the devs at Donkey Crew...
Tencent is launching multiplayer survival game Undawn on PC and mobile this year
Did the world need another multiplayer survival title? Maybe not, but nobody's gonna be sad to get a good one from a solid publisher...
Aion NA is offering players a limited-time free boost to level 80
Let's say you're curious about what's been happening at the tippy-top end of Aion, but you're not exactly keen on climbing the 80 levels...
Massively Overthinking: What are your MMO character customization dealbreakers?
Back in February, when BlizzConline was at its height, part of the World of Warcraft community lost its mind over the revelation that Blizzard...
Massively of the Go: Pokemon Go’s April events bring snakes, trash, and mysteries
Pokemon Go's St. Patrick's Day "had no effect" on at least one snake: Snivy! But fortunatelt, the Gen 5 pokemon is getting its own...
ArcheAge’s Akasch Invasion patch is live with the new Gunslinger skillset
As promised, ArcheAge and ArcheAge Unchained are getting a blast of new content today in the form of the Akasch Invasion. "With the new update...
Desert Oasis: The problem with Black Desert’s season servers – and how to fix it
Black Desert's had some exceptional growth over the past year. What I've always liked about this game is that it's never tried to be...
Atlas decides to ignore themes, plans multiple maps, ship customization, and Wonders building for summer
Remember back when the devs of Atlas admitted that the piratical survival sandbox was missing a strong overall theme? Well it would appear...
New World alpha teases its overhauled quest design as AGS expands to Canada
When New World shifted its design balance from being less about PvP to more about PvE last year, many MMO gamers worried about the...
