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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Amazon Games shares its long focus approach while saying that the Lord of the Rings MMO is ‘not too far away’
It can be pretty easy to assume that the strategy of Amazon Games is to throw handfuls of anything at the wall to see...
MOBA-like battle royale Battle Crush begins its free-to-play early access to scathing Steam reviews
What do you get when you take shrunken mythological heroes as well as a couple of random mascots and pit them against one another...
Mortal Online 2 begins testing of a new mastery system on PTR
What do you do when you've climbed the top of the clade leveling mountain in Mortal Online 2? You find a new peak to...
First impressions of ASKA, Sand Sailor’s brand-new colony-building survival sandbox
Thanks to the press preview hosted by Thunderful and Sand Sailor, I recently had the opportunity to play around with survival sandbox ASKA a...
Theorycraft’s Project Loki is now Supervive, a F2P neon squad-based battle royale
Theorycraft Games is a studio name that's popped up several times over the last couple of years, largely owing to the fact that it...
War Thunder apologizes for accidentally using imagery of the Challenger shuttle disaster for its keyart
While there were plenty of things to pay attention to in War Thunder's recently released Seek and Destroy update, players were paying attention to...
Fight or Kite: Battle Crush is a snack-sized take on the mythological battle royale scene
Imagine taking a bit of the theme from SMITE (really the only good part about SMITE in my estimation), the common battle royale grab-and-go...
SMITE 2 readies its third alpha weekend for June 27 with three more characters in tow
Third time's the charm, or at least the next in a series of steps for SMITE 2, as the MOBA has tied down some...
The MOP Up: Among Us adds three new playable roles
Highly sus game Among Us added three new roles with its latest update: Tracker (keep tabs on Crewmates via the minimap), Noisemaker (make noise...
EVE Echoes has spent 2024 pumping out events, balancing, new regions, new ships, and a cheater crackdown
Most of the EVE Online-shaped noise has been coming out of... well, EVE Online, particularly since its Equinox update went live and testing for...
Anime hero shooter Second Wave and its developer shut down after a disastrous dev cycle
Over the course of last year, we had been reporting on Second Wave, an anime-styled hero shooter MOBA from developer Challengers Games that looked...
EVE Vanguard engages its latest subscriber-only playtest with new map and mechanics
Yesterday wasn't just the summer solstice; it was also the start of the Solstice event/playtest for EVE Vanguard, the integrated FPS mode of EVE...
Massively Overthinking: Unfair stigmas that follow MMORPGs
A few weeks back, our team was discussing the intersection of survival sandboxes, MMORPG virtual worlds, and gankboxes - and how hard it is...
Gigantic launches free trial on Epic Games Store as ranked competitive mode comes to PC
Gigantic continues to do things nobody expected in 2024: First, Abstraction Games brought it back from the dead years after PWE sunsetted it. Second,...
War Thunder’s Seek and Destroy update brings new vehicles, new maps, and FOX-3 missiles today
It's time for War Thunder players to field some fresh equipment and try not to think about a certain heavy metal song because the...
Mortal Online 2’s next patch will add its Mastery system, a Wilderness dungeon, and new craftable armor
Originally, Mortal Online 2 had planned to include a system called the Veteran system, a mechanic designed to help improve build diversity and offer...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 473: How do you define an MMO?
Justin and Bree discuss EVE Online Equinox, EverQuest and EverQuest II expansions and progression servers, New World Aeternum, and Wayfinder's relaunch, with adventures in Project Gorgon, LOTRO, WoW, and Fallout 76, plus mailbag topics on balancing news coverage, Once Human, and defining MMOs.
SGF 2024: Hands-on with NCsoft’s long-awaited Throne and Liberty, launching September 17
Most of the games I played at Summer Game Fest were more enjoyable than I expected - including Throne and Liberty, which was probably...
EVE Online’s Tranquility server briefly buckles under the strain of over 36K concurrent players
This past Sunday was a very busy one for EVE Online. As first noticed by Noizy Gamer, the spaceship sandbox managed to hit a...
Albion Online’s latest patch primarily focuses on balance adjustments to several weapons
The PvP sandbox of Albion Online has once again taken the opportunity to use its latest patch to turn the dials of weapons balance....
