RvR stands for “realm vs. realm,” usually a reference to faction-based player-vs.-player warfare, and frequently (though not always) in the context of more than two realms.
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WoW Factor: No-selling BlizzCon
On May 4th, 2019, tickets for BlizzCon 2019 went on sale. This was not in and of itself a surprise, with the event happening...
Rocket League confirms an end to player trading December 5, sending the community into a tailspin
Rocket League players have started marching on the war path against Epic Games-owned developer Psyonix Games, which confirmed this week that player-to-player trading will...
EverQuest releases video and preorders for its December expansion, Laurion’s Song
Last week, Daybreak took the wraps off... well, kind of a lot of content for its six remaining MMORPGs, actually. But among them was...
Diablo Immortal brings Hallow’s Wake event October 18, Diablo IV primes players for Season of Blood
The Diablo franchise is already a Halloween-adjacent sort of experience, but that's by no means a reason for the mobile version Diablo Immortal to...
Wayfinder’s mid-season update today offers new quests and the Call of the Void event
Wayfinder has been in early access for nearly two months now, and it just so happens that today marks the start of the MMO-lite's...
Dark Age of Camelot re-engages its Crossroads Covenant event as part of its anniversary celebration
The beginning of this month saw Dark Age of Camelot mark 22 years of operation with the promise of multiple returning events, and now...
LOTRO is ‘tackling something more difficult and interesting’ with Corsairs of Umbar’s story
With Corsairs of Umbar on the way next month in Lord of the Rings Online, players will be getting to go to this southern...
WoW Factor: For Khaz Algar!
This is not really a column about Khaz Algar in World of Warcraft, or at least not in the sense that you might expect...
Ten-year-old Camelot Unchained gets all technical and mechanical with this month’s newsletter
For you patient and persistent fans of Camelot Unchained, City State Entertainment put out its 101st newsletter for the long-in-the-coming MMORPG. This time around,...
Massively Overthinking: What’s the most chaotic behavior you’ve seen from MMO players?
A week or two ago, I found myself discussing Ultima Online by way of trying to convince our work chat that players often do...
Fight or Kite: Harry Potter Magic Awakened’s guilds, story quests, and pay-to-win gacha mechanics
I’d be lying if I said my game time over the last several months hasn’t been completely upended by Harry Potter: Magic Awakened. It’s...
Dark Age of Camelot celebrates its 22nd birthday with experience and PvP boosts
Broadsword has a busy anniversary season ahead of it: A week ago, Ultima Online celebrated its 26th birthday, and now Dark Age of Camelot...
Fallout 76 previews Atlantic City: Boardwalk Paradise’s factions and locales
Fallout 76 fans eager to head to post-apocalyptic Atlantic City have two choices: They can either literally go to Atlantic City in real life...
The MOP Up: Soulframe releases a soundtrack tidbit
Soulframe fans starved to hear something -- anything -- about Digital Extremes' upcoming fantasy RPG were thrown an audio morsel this week in the...
City of Heroes Rebirth rogue server re-engages the Rikti Invasion event starting today
One of my many favorite memories in City of Heroes was playing the first Rikti Invasion in Atlas Park. Watching the war walls disengage...
Eternal Tombs declares goal to innovate in the MMORPG genre, releases gameplay walkthrough
Not quite two years ago, we first heard about a new MMORPG from Triune Studios called War of Dragnorox, focused entirely hardcore mechanics like...
WoW Factor: If this is the state of World of Warcraft, why talk about it?
The other day, I was talking with a friend about another MMO altogether. It doesn't actually matter which one it was because the important...
Black Desert PC makes PvE-focused class tweaks, applies conquest war QoL, and fights sweets-stealing bears
It's quite a week in the PC version of Black Desert, as the game's latest update has made another wide assortment of changes to...
Lord of the Rings Online previews its upcoming Outer Gondor region
Lord of the Rings Online continued to show off the landscape coming with this fall's Corsairs of Umbar expansion. In this week's developer tour,...
The Land of the Morning Light expansion arrives to Black Desert Mobile today
Let the sunshine in. Or perhaps it's better to say let the land of sunshine that's still full of mythical monsters and other dark...