PvP stands for player-vs.-player. PvP can take the form of virtual combat, economic trade, political machinations, or other competition.
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The MOP Up: Guild Wars 2’s community shows off amazing player housing creations
It's no surprise that Guild Wars 2 players are thrilled to be interior decorators, thanks to this year's player housing system. And in a...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025
This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...
Albion Online’s fourth Horizons update is a patch full of combat balance changes
You kids today fail to give the Dreadstorm Monarch's Eye of the Storm ability the respect it deserves in Albion Online, and so the...
World of Warships Legends celebrates ‘Shipmas’ with cosmetics, free DLC, and a new boat
Merry Shipmas, everyone! No, this holiday isn't a celebration of your ability to make two licensed characters smooch each other; it's the seasonal event...
APB Reloaded patches in cross-district matchmaking and new anti-cheat, readies a Christmas event December 18
This week brought in a fresh patch to the rebuilding MMO APB Reloaded as developer Little Orbit continues to try to modernize the aged...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2024
So here's the disclaimer I put in front of this column every year when I do it (we alternate them): The biggest surprises list...
War Thunder’s Storm Warning update brings new vehicles and maps to the fray
In the real world, if tanks were rolling through Attica in the southeastern portion of Greece, it would be a loss to humanity on...
Vitae Aeternum: Analyzing New World’s 2025 ‘living roadmap’
Covering New World's new "living roadmap" for 2025 seems like something I should have gotten to sooner, but in my defence I've been battling...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG launched the best event of 2024?
I'm well aware that this is going to be a hard Daily Grind to answer because it used to be an award, and it...
Mortal Online 2 drops item-filled meteors from the sky for players to fight for in its latest update
Mortal Online 2 will be one of the few MMORPGs where we can confirm that epic items do literally fall from the sky. The...
Albion Online plans updates to economy, Outlands, and release timing in 2025
It's been a packed year for the PvP sandbox Albion Online, and what better way to look back at the year that was than...
The MOP Up: New World pulls back the curtains on its holiday event
New World's devs shared the inspiration behind the hodge-podge holiday event in the game, saying, "Our Audio and Narrative Teams took inspiration from various...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offered the best console or mobile experience in 2024?
There was a time not all that long ago when this question would've been inane since we had so few top-notch MMORPGs on console...
All the big MMO and multiplayer news from The Game Awards 2024
If you watched the 10th annual Game Awards tonight - perhaps alongside Chris and MJ - then you probably don't need this post. But...
Vague Patch Notes: EVE Frontier’s blockchain foundation makes it a worse MMO
It is a mark of pride for our readers that basically none of you are having CCP Games trying to play around with the...
Former Dauntless dev decries Awakening update as ‘blatantly not player focused’
It's not just the veteran players who are extremely upset at the Awakening update for Dauntless; the game's former associate producer Jessie Leigh Gagnon...
SMITE 2’s last closed alpha patch of 2024 brings three more gods and a Lord of the Rings crossover event
It's time for the last patch for the closed alpha of MOBA SMITE 2, and this one is going out with another set of...
Heroes of the Storm closes out 2024 with its fourth balancing and bugfixing patch of the year
The tail end of 2023 saw something pleasantly surprising out of Blizzard (for once): A sudden series of patches for its MOBA Heroes of...
World of Tanks’ Holiday Ops event brings festive decor, pet-styled tank cosmetics, and Jason Statham’s missions
It's time for the Christmas season in World of Tanks, which can mean only one thing: plastering a fluffy cat face across your rumbling...
War Thunder discusses Firebirds patch adjustments, confirms upcoming use of BattleEye anti-cheat software
The recently released Firebirds update to War Thunder could use some fixing up. That's the general message from a recent dev blog by Gaijin,...
