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 Daily Grind: Have your opinions on MMO PvP changed over the years?
One of the first columns I penned for MOP after we went indie was a column about what I wanted from serious MMO PvP....
Massively Overthinking: What’s the best way a studio can save a struggling mid-size MMO?
Temtem's Crema Games raised eyebrows earlier this week when it admitted that in spite of Temtem's successful launch, the game is having trouble; the...
Vague Patch Notes: Contemplating the origin of the Big Five in the MMO space
A few weeks back, I talked about the various tiers of MMORPGs, and that included a discussion of what we call the Big Five...
Wargaming celebrates studio’s 25th anniversary with bundle discounts, freebies, and in-game events
Wargaming is officially 25 years old this month, and that's cause for its catalogue of games to throw a party, with some bundle discounts,...
Perfect Ten: 10 memorable MMO marketing campaigns from the genre’s past
Believe it or not, MMOs get off easy when it comes to notorious marketing campaigns. Anything on the following list, good or bad, is...
Albion Online’s new legendary items will be one-of-a-kind craftables with unique histories
Albion Online's next big update is already set to be loaded with new content, and Sandbox Interactive is previewing yet another chunk of it...
War Thunder details vehicle marker adjustments and bot fighting efforts in latest dev blogs
Two of the latest dev blogs to come out of War Thunder are extremely game-specific, but then that would make sense, especially for those...
Temtem game director defends standalone Showdown title as a ‘cost-efficient’ way to support the title
At the tail-end of June, Temtem developer Crema Games made the surprise reveal of Temtem Showdown, a free-to-play, PvP-centric standalone game. Since its release,...
Lineage II posts patch notes for the August 1 Death Knight Reborn and Spellcaster Unleashed updates
The beginning of August will not only herald the end to this hell season in our hemisphere of the world; it will also bring...
Mortal Online 2 shares plans for a network stress test and one final territory control PTR test
During the latest weekly livestream from Mortal Online 2, Star Vault CEO Henrik Nystrom provided details on another round of testing coming to the...
Not So Massively: Revisiting Heroes of the Storm in 2023
Social media algorithms are a dangerous thing. A few weeks back, Reddit began recommending me the sub for Heroes of the Storm. Although I...
World of Warships is the latest MMO to replace official forums with Discord servers
Another one bites the dust, friends: World of Warships has decided that forums are dead and Discord is the future, and has subsequently shut...
EVE Online looks back at 20 years of ‘friendship, creation, contribution, and destruction’ and hints at future plans
With 20 years under the game's belt, there's lots of cause for EVE Online to look back at what's come, appreciate what is out...
The MOP Up: MapleStory rebuilds the legendary guild castle
MapleStory broke out the second part of its two-part summer Savior update which is "packed with a new mystical land to discover, a new...
Ashes of Creation takes a closer look at Alpha Two’s updated Cleric class
When it comes to healer archetypes, one of the more interesting to many MMORPG players is the Cleric, and it looks as if that...
PSA: SMITE is giving away a total of 10 million gems to mark its 10th anniversary
Are you a SMITE player? Would you like some free gems cash shop currency? How about 10,000 of them? That's the offer being made...
Wow Factor: The future of Blizzard is bleak
So yesterday our Massively Overthinking roundtable asked everyone to sound off on the future of Blizzard because... well, the studio had a plan to...
The Daily Grind: Do you have hope for ArcheAge or its sequel?
To me, ArcheAge will forever be the first of many South Korean games that was heralded as bringing back the mythical prelapsarian days of...
Fight or Kite: Harry Potter Magic Awakened brings the familiarity of the Wizarding World to an MMO
The time is here at last: Not only can I play Harry Potter: Magic Awakened, but I can finally write about it too. I’ve...
Project ST is a team vs. team shooter where players try to take down the opposition’s giant robot
Does anyone here remember Gigantic? It was a team vs. team "shooter MOBA" that was shuttered back in 2018; its overall objective was for...
