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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Greg Street discusses balancing League of Legends for all skill levels
How do you balance a video game? It's kind of an ongoing question, but it's also one that Greg Street (aka Ghostcrawler) has been...
Overwatch’s Genji and Hanamura map leap into Heroes of the Storm
A fourth Overwatch toon is coming to Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard revealed today: The assassin Genji will join Lucio, Tracer, and Zarya in...
EVE Evolved: Video highlights from EVE Fanfest 2017
For a few days each year, hundreds of EVE Online players from across the world flock to a frozen volcanic rock at the top of the world for...
The MOP Up: Overwatch gives smurfing a pass (April 16, 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...
Camelot Unchained takes aim at eliminating zone loading screens
Live it up while you still can, zone loading screens, because Camelot Unchained has its mind to wipe you off the map.
In this week's...
A trimmed-down Star Citizen 3.0 alpha is coming this summer
You can stop fidgeting about what might or might not arrive in Star Citizen this year: Cloud Imperium has released its promised development roadmap...
SuperData CEO discusses the money problem of e-sports
Whether you're a big fan of the e-sports scene or you would be quite happy never hearing about it ever again, you are no...
Eternal Crusade unleashes an Ork waaagh! campaign
If there's one thing that has always been associated with the Warhammer franchise, it's the terrible and overwhelming crusades that its greenskins occasionally unleash....
The Daily Grind: What’s the most boring MMORPG around?
I've mentioned in a previous Daily Grind that I once fell asleep in the middle of an incredibly boring raid in EverQuest. It wasn't...
The Stream Team: Speeding around in SMITE’s new Racer Rumble adventure
Remember back when Massively OP's MJ announced that SMITE would be doing all sorts of new specialty adventures? Back then, even she couldn't imaging...
Crowfall’s destructible castles are hungry hungry hippos
One of my favorite early MMORPG PvP memories is from Dark Age of Camelot, where I liked to position my Huntress atop my side's...
Dark Horse teams up with CCP for EVE Online frigate schematic book
Are you 1337 enough for EVE Online?
The internet spaceships game is accepting pre-orders for a new book featuring the schematics of its vessels. CCP...
Rend aims to boost its survival sandbox community with three-faction PvP
Frostkeep Studios has another dev blog out this week explaining how Rend will improve on traditional survival sandboxes. How? Factions.
The studio's Jordan Leithart argues...
The Stream Team: Happy sixth birthday, World of Tanks!
For six years, tank enthusiasts have been blowing each other to bits in World of Tanks. And on the game's birthday today, Massively OP's...
Albion Online infographic reveals a massacre of rabbits
Just in time for the Easter weekend is news of a horrific and widespread slaughter of innocent little bunny rabbits in Albion Online.
This comes...
Perfect Ten: Conversations with anthropomorphic concepts of MMO studios
Every so often, a man needs to have a conversation with some anthropomorphized concepts. I do that every few years. In the past, I've...
Grand Theft Auto Online has a nasty new money-stealing hack floating around
EVE Online: "No one can have a more toxic player culture than ours!"
GTA Online: "Hold my beer."
EVE Fanfest 2017: EVE Online plans amazing new PvE gameplay
Today's EVE Online is a far cry from the empty but hopeful sandbox released back in 2003, having constantly re-invented itself for over 14 years...
Crowfall shows off gender-alternative variants of the Assassin and Druid
Now that the Crowfall team has revealed most of the core archetypes that will come in the launch game, the devs are turning their...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 112: Heroic measures
Justin and Bree discuss Marvel Heroes, Ship of Heroes, SWTOR, Secret World Legends, Black Desert, EVE Fanfest, LOTRO, WoW, and GW2, with reader mail on MMO dress-up and City of Heroes successors.