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: Trailblazing in Wild West Online
It's been a right long time since Massively OP's MJ has moseyed through Wild West Online, and much has changed. One thing has stayed...
DOTA 2 is bleeding players, SuperData says
Things are looking slightly grim for Valve's MOBA, as SuperData reports that DOTA 2's playerbase is in decline as the game continues to lose...
Revelation Online invites you to battle for glory in its new colosseum
It was teased, but now it's truly here. Revelation Online is introducing the colosseum, and its world will never be the same. Specifically, it...
Fortnite brings out a newer, better 50v50 battle mode
People liked the 50v50 mode in Fortnite, but it had some issues. Fortunately, it was only a limited-time mode, so the developers could take...
H1Z1 patch optimizes client and tamps down on overenthusiastic celebrants
For those playing the now-free H1Z1 battle royale, a small Thursday patch might hold a few changes to improve your game experience.
It seems as...
Albion Online is adding respecs and a GvG training system next month
May 2nd is destined for glory thanks to the planned arrival of Albion Online's midseason patch.
"On May 2, we'll be launching a new patch...
Paragon artist shows off concept art from the doomed MOBA
Perhaps because the announcement was all the way back in January, but Paragon's shutdown is scheduled to take place at the end of next...
The Stream Team: Driving in California (totally not a GTAO stream)
While Massively OP's MJ is in California, we thought it would be fun to join her for a bit on her adventures. So here...
EVE Online’s ‘million dollar battle’ set a Guinness World Record for PvP battle concurrency
Last January's much-hyped "million dollar battle" in EVE Online may have been a $3300 bust in terms of the value of the ships destroyed...
Russia’s Telegram crackdown blocks access to WoW, EVE, and Guild Wars 2
If you play Guild Wars 2, World of Tanks, EVE Online, or World of Warcraft in Russia, you may find that access to these...
The Daily Grind: What could MMO taverns do to get you to stick around?
I have vague memories of ArenaNet talking about Guild Wars 2 taverns prior to its launch and how these spaces would be more than...
EVE Fanfest 2018: CCP Games has big plans for data collection and machine learning
Every day in the sandbox of New Eden, several hundred thousand EVE Online players perform millions of unseen actions. Every item manufactured, module activated,...
EVE Fanfest 2018: Andrew Groen on the sequel to his popular EVE Online history book
One of the most common comments you'll see in articles about big events in EVE Online is that it's a lot more entertaining to...
Lineage 2: Revolution talks about server merges, new servers, and more content coming in May
Server merges happen. You may not want them to happen for a game that you're playing, but they're sometimes just a simple necessity. Of...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the dumbest armor?
Back in February, PC Gamer put out a piece on the absolute dumbest character armor in gaming history. There's more than one MMORPG in...
Next year’s EVE Fanfest won’t be in Iceland, obviating your efforts to properly spell Reykjavik
Last autumn, when CCP Games began dumping assets and studios and VR holdings overboard, it also sent almost all of its EVE Online community...
The Daily Grind: What’s the biggest scandal the MMORPG genre has ever seen?
Over the weekend in the Guild Wars 2 spyware article comments, a commenter remarked that Blizzard's Warden spyware was "the biggest scandal in MMOs"...
The Game Archaeologist: Lineage
If we judged MMOs by their numbers alone -- and I'm not suggesting we do so -- then the original Lineage would be the...
SoulWorker Online adds high-level PvPvE operation
What's the newly launched SoulWorker Online to do to keep players occupied as they dash up the levels? Turn them on each other, of...
EVE Fanfest 2018: Two EVE players were married by the space pope. Yep.
Of all the fascinating things the EVE Online community has embraced over the game's almost 15-year lifetime, perhaps the most bizarre is space pope...
