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 Stream Team: A first look at DEATHGARDEN
If a new game is going to give out a free weekend, that sounds like a pretty decent time to check it out! Massively...
Crowfall: New marketing boss, bestiary entry, player mapping, and the Mother of Cats
Crowfall has a bunch of smallish pieces of news this week that we don't want to miss.
First, ArtCraft announced that it's picked up a...
H1Z1 fans are quibbling over whether Jace Hall can really save the game on PC
The 12 million dudes and dudettes playing H1Z1 on PlayStation 4 this summer need to know two things this week. For one, the latest...
Age of Wushu celebrates seven years of sandbox shenanigans in China
Has it really been seven years since martial arts MMO Age of Wushu first descended on an MMORPG genre that had almost forgotten what...
Massively Overthinking: Would you want to play a League of Legends or Diablo MMORPG?
Over the last couple of weeks, we've had some tantalizing rumors and teases that both Riot Games and Blizzard are building something new: Riot's...
Behaviour’s DEATHGARDEN survival shooter hits early access, is free-to-play right now
What's Behaviour Interactive been up to since taking Eternal Crusade free-to-play, pondering a battle royale mode, and being sued by Bethsoft? Getting its caps...
Rend’s Jeremy Wood on how Frostkeep borrows from Blizzard, Dark Age of Camelot, and PlanetSide
GameDaily has an interview with Rend's Jeremy Wood this week that covers a bunch of meta topics of interest to MMO players and watchers...
Hi-Rez’s Realm Royale playerbase and reviews are way down on Steam
Yikes - Realm Royale is apparently struggling, proving once again just how hard it is to break into one of these new runaway subgenres. GitHyp...
Albion Online makes trade mission bundles much heavier
A little change can make a big difference in terms of balance. It's what Albion Online did with its latest patch; all that's really...
Broke Protocol is currently free on Steam to celebrate its first birthday
Remember Broke Protocol, the funky sandbox that's basically a mash-up of Minecraft and Grand Theft Auto, with voxel graphics bolstering cops-and-robbers gameplay? It's apparently...
Leaderboard: Must MMORPGs revolve around grouping to be MMORPGs?
It would be easy to dismiss Saga of Lucimia's pervasive "group-based or go home" ideas as mere rhetoric, but the reality is, there exists...
Riot and Tencent appear to be on unpleasant terms with one another
Some fans are still probably a bit miffed that Riot Games (maker of League of Legends and that's all) teased them about the possibility...
Final Fantasy XIV has a new season of the Feast after the end of championship preliminaries
Fans of PvP combat in Final Fantasy XIV will be able to find out who is the best among them when the Feast finals...
NCsoft Q3 2018: Aion, Blade & Soul, Guild Wars 2 revenues dip, while NCsoft teases three new titles
NCsoft's second quarter financials for the year hit this morning, and it's not exactly bad news. Sales are down slightly, but everything looks wimpy...
Hi-Rez reorganizes SMITE, Paladins, and Realm Royale teams as newly renamed substudios
Hi-Rez Studios is making bold moves today: It's just announced that it's splitting up the band, unbundling its games teams into separate but joined...
EverFeud’s Kickstarter has been canceled, but the devs say they’ll ‘pursue other options’
At the tail end of July, we covered the Kickstarter of EverFeud, a PvP-focused MOBA/MMO hybrid that sought $105,000 to fund development. Unfortunately, the...
EVE Online delays its August release a week, citing the need for ‘additional testing’
If you were hoping to hop into EVE Online with its August release tomorrow, then I'm sorry to tell you that the patch has...
Camelot Unchained’s latest beta build patches up the UI, fixes superpowered rocks
Camelot Unchained's beta one is rolling on, and we're assuming City State's Mark Jacobs is napping on a beach somewhere enjoying his long-delayed vacay...
World of Warcraft quietly disables the group finder auto-accept on the eve of Battle for Azeroth
Happy Battle for Azeroth Day, everyone! Starting tonight, World of Warcraft's newest expansion will release globally and players will evacuate the Broken Isles en...
The MOP Up: Worlds Adrift makes room for PvE servers (August 12, 2018)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
