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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Happy birthday, Albion Online – you launched one year ago today
Can you believe it's been a whole year since hardcore sandbox Albion Online officially launched? I cannot, but that might be because its separate Steam...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 178: #womenarecosmetic
Justin and Bree discuss WoW's Battle for Azeroth, Wild West Online, Star Citizen, Defiance 2050, Rend, and Fractured, with a mailbag question on in-game conflict resolution and a special interview on Blaugust Reborn.
No Man’s Sky’s Next update drops next week with absurd amounts of space and land content
Don't call it an MMO yet, but Even More Multiplayer is making its way to No Man's Sky with its "Next" update. Hello Games...
Camelot Unchained nears beta as its crash rate drops to ‘acceptable’ levels
"From what we've seen so far, we're in really good shape."
Mark Jacobs hasn't given us a firm start date for Camelot Unchained's Beta 1...
First Life is Feudal content update unites the worlds, introduces PvP arenas, and adds clergy and slavery
Bitbox recently released the first major content update for its medieval sandbox survival game Life is Feudal, and it brings with it a slew...
Skyforge revamps PvP with the Gods at War update
The newest update for Skyforge is now live and changes a lot about the way PvP works. Before, PvP had gear scaling to the...
The MOP Up: Star Trek Online’s DS9 expansion gets a console release date (July 14, 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...
The Daily Grind: What exactly defines an ‘indie’ MMORPG studio?
Earlier this week, I happened to see a mainstream website refer to ArtCraft as an indie studio, and it jolted me. ArtCraft, as anybody...
Battle Bards Episode 124: Old MMOs, new music
It’s a catch-all, catch-up episode for the Battle Bards as they dig through new soundtrack releases from MMORPGs that they’ve covered in the past!...
Crowfall explains its new Vivox chat integration
The chat system in Crowfall was developed in-house for chatting within the game, and it had only one problem insofar as it didn't actually...
Today in why we can’t have nice things: How a No Man’s Sky griefer exploits design flaws to screw with communities
A No Man's Sky griefer purporting to roleplay an evil emperor, monologuing and all, decided to up his griefer game by taking it out of game and...
Interview and excerpt: The ‘Braving Britannia’ book preserves Ultima Online’s oral history
Earlier this week, we wrote about the launch of a new book that's right up MMORPG fans' alley. Dubbed Braving Britannia: Tales of Life,...
Dark Age of Camelot answers player questions about damage reduction and defensive actions
When a game has been running as long as Dark Age of Camelot has, it stands to reason that the players remaining are going...
Crowfall talks about test patch 5.7 and the horrors of zoning
The latest community Q&A video from Crowfall is actually not that at all. It's supposed to be that, of course, that's what it claims...
Mortal Online warns of data breach, advises users to change passwords
If you've been playing Mortal Online this spring or summer, you should probably be aware that a troubling data breach that happened last month...
Wild West Online plans ‘soft relaunch’ to boost playerbase, says playable women are a ‘cosmetic feature’
The latest Wild West Online patch landed on July 5th, and it brings in some changes like a full Sheriffs vs. Outlaws faction setup...
Perfect Ten: Best MMO debuts by year, 2007-2017
Continuing from my previous column that went back to 1997, I'm going to be running through the second decade of graphical MMORPG launches and...
Ashes of Creation handles world persistence and local economies in its own fashion
With a rapidly expanding studio and Alpha One coming later this year, Ashes of Creation is shaping up to be one of the great...
Interview: ArtCraft’s J. Todd Coleman on prepping Crowfall’s Artisan Engine for the broader industry
Yesterday, Crowfall studio ArtCraft announced it was spinning off a brand-new company dubbed ArtCraft Technologies that would basically turn Crowfall's engine into a marketable...
Albion Online brings faction warfare with the Merlyn update on July 31
Everyone does not get along in Albion Online. It's not a game about everyone holding hands and being great friends. But when the Merlyn...
