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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SMITE to fold its Chinese players into the global community
Contrary to popular belief, sometimes server merges can be a very good thing -- especially if your country or region has been kept isolated...
Crowfall demos more action harvesting, starts taking guild name reservations
Crowfall isn't content to make gathering as dull and repetitive as in other MMOs, which is why the team is putting great stock in...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds passes up League of Legends in Korean PC bangs
If you are not at least keeping an eye on PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and how it's currently disrupting the entire online gaming market, you probably...
EVE Online gives miners the tools to do the job right
Mining might not be the most visually impressive or glorious activity in EVE Online, but it helps to form the backbone of the game's...
Gigantic launches necro hero and new map in today’s Season of Souls Halloween update
PWE's MOBA Gigantic is going all out for Halloween with a full-scale update, Season of Souls, launching today for PC and Xbox One. You're...
MMO Halloween: Dark Age of Camelot, Hearthstone, and Heroes of the Storm
Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to... play?
Halloween 2017 continues unabated in online games, so let's see what goodies and...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 140: Dubious drops in LOTRO, FFXIV, and SWTOR
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, Secret World Legends' Orochi Tower patch, Lord of the Rings' weird patch week, FFXIV's housing mess, SWTOR's balance patch, Warframe's open-world patch, and H1Z1's name-change patch, with a mailbag question about older gamers in MMORPGs.
Albion Online’s new trial is a referral system that costs the referrer in-game gold
If last week's rumors about a new trial version in Albion Online had you excited, good news for you: It's actually happening and in...
Take home a Hand of the Gods Medusa key in honor of the console closed beta launch
Hi-Rez's turn-based strategy card game Hand of the Gods -- you might recall it better as SMITE Tactics or even its internal name, Hotgods...
The Daily Grind: Is PUBG finally the ‘WoW killer killer’ we’ve been waiting for?
Say the words "WoW killer" to a bunch of MMORPG players in 2017 and you're bound to get eyerolls, for good reason: Even though...
Chronicles of Elyria picks up former Revival lead developer
Has enough time gone by to start erasing memories of Revival, that ambitious but troubled horror MMO that was canceled back in March 2016?...
GTA Online drops wild ‘transform’ stunt races in tomorrow’s update
If you ever get tired of mayhem in Grand Theft Auto Online... just kidding, nobody ever gets tired of mayhem in GTAO. That's why...
H1Z1 has defeated its ‘King of the Kill’ branding in a last-man-standing battle royale
Looks like at least some of the rumors last week have proven true, as Daybreak is indeed removing the "King of the Kill" branding from...
EVE Evolved: EVE Online’s free-to-play upgrades are pretty damn generous
You've probably heard by now that EVE Online is giving its free-to-play alpha clone characters a massive boost in power in December about a...
The MOP Up: Speedrunning World of Warcraft (October 15, 2017)
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...
Halloween events in Path of Exile, Master X Master, RIFT, EverQuest, Ultima Online, and AQ3D
It's almost a full-time job to stay on top of all of the MMO and MOBA Halloween events popping up all over the place!...
Camelot Unchained builds boats for beta
A diverse smattering of projects kept the Camelot Unchained team busy this past week, per the game's newsletter report. It sounds as though players...
Rumor: H1Z1 is about to drop King of the Kill branding (and maybe it’s really launching)
Remember in 2016 when Daybreak split H1Z1 into two separate games, H1Z1: King of the Kill and H1Z1: Just Survive?
Remember back in August when...
Massively Overthinking: Three-way RvR and ‘fair’ PvP in modern MMOs
MOP reader Sally Bowls is on a roll with the good questions lately! She lobbed us one this past weekend that seems a good...
World of Warplanes 2.0 introduces conquest mode, bombers, and respawn
Live in World of Warplanes this week is a 2.0 reboot that's striving to be more than just another patch. Wargaming is calling it...
