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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Das Tal devs doubles server capacity, apologizes for alpha’s technical issues
"Thousands of players heeded our call and stormed onto the Das Tal servers on Saturday." So sayeth Fairytale Distillery's Alexander Zacherl in a postmortem...
Crowfall authorizes RMT program for retired goods
In trying to anticipate the demand for reselling retired Crowfall goods and heading off some of the shadier aspects of third-party RMT transactions, ArtCraft announced...
The Stream Team: Attempting Grand Theft Auto Online’s new Cunning Stunts
If racing through the streets of Los Santos just isn't doing it for you anymore, there are now new stunt racetracks strewn about GTAO...
Summer of SMITE continues with Patch 3.13
The so-called Summer of SMITE is being particularly kind to the Norse goddess of beauty and fertility. Today's 3.13 patch delivered a host of...
Overwatch’s Jeff Kaplan discusses future plans and competitive mode
A new Kotaku interview with Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan has shed new light on the state of Overwatch -- you know, the game everyone played...
Sea of Thieves shies away from friendly fire and permanent loss
Rare is still feeling out the "emergent world" of Sea of Thieves as the game nears its closed beta testing phase. In an interview...
The Soapbox: Calling an MMO launch a launch
It's launch.
Can we collectively accept that? Marketing, developers, and players alike? Launch is launch. When your game launches, it has launched. If I can...
Eternal Crusade welcomes Tyranids to the fight
Hope you don't have any reservations about fighting giant bugs that can snap off your head faster than you can flick a flyswatter: The...
Blizzard is quietly fighting Overwatch toxicity
If you've started to notice that the community in Overwatch has started to turn vicious in the past few weeks, you're not alone.
In an...
The MOP Up: RuneScape Chronicles’ beach party (July 17, 2016)
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...
Crowfall devs talk about the Myrmidon minotaur and murder machines
What's the Crowfall team up to these days? In a new Q&AÂ video for July, the lead devs talk about the three "tracks" that the...
Darkfall: New Dawn opens its store
Darkfall: New Dawn isn't wasting any time setting up a revenue stream to tap players flocking to this reboot. The new web store, which...
Giveaway: Das Tal summer alpha keys from Fairytale Distillery and MOP [Over now!]
Indie sandbox Das Tal's summer alpha kicks off tomorrow morning on July 16th. Fairytale Distillery plans to cut the rope on the servers at...
Massively Overthinking: The best MMORPG trailers of all time
This week's Massively Overthinking should be a fun one -- and hopefully it'll contrast nicely with the Game Archaeologist column we ran last week, which...
Perfect Ten: The most exciting MMO developments yet to come in 2016
In the annals of MMORPG history, 2016 might well go down as a very odd duck of a year. While on the surface it...
Take a look at some of Dark Age of Camelot’s class changes
Even after all of these years, Dark Age of Camelot still has a few tricks up its sleeves -- and class changes down its...
This is how you’ll customize your Crowfall character
Future Crowfall warriors might be looking at all of the archetypes (classes) and wondering how theirs will play any different than the rest. ArtCraft's answer...
H1Z1 lets you harvest zombie blood
We know what you're thinking: "Zombie survival games are all well and good, but they don't really go far enough in allowing me to...
The Stream Team: Be your own boss in Evolve
Have you ever been in the middle of a dungeon and wished you could play the boss mob? Maybe you wanted to feel the...
The MMOs with deals on Amazon Prime Day
The second-biggest holiday of the year has arrived: I'm talking about Prime Day, of course, the summer's Black Friday, when Amazon puts a ton...
