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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Perfect Ten: 10 old MMO promises that never happened
Developers like to talk a big game. It's expected, it's encouraged by all parties, and it's part of the fun. When a game or...
Conan Exiles announces June 22 Age of War as Age of Conan’s 15th anniversary slips by in silence
Funcom may have let Saturday's 15th birthday of Age of Conan slip by unheralded and unremarked, but it did take the moment to announce...
Classic MMO Dark Age of Camelot keeps tanks from climbing all over the walls in its latest patch
A new patch is up on Dark Age of Camelot's Pendragon test realm, and this one may spell the end of some shenanigans by...
War Thunder walks back economy changes following review bombing campaign
The outcry from players of War Thunder has been a success. Gaijin Entertainment was planning to continue applying what it called a "rank-based economy"...
LOTRO Legendarium: Amazon plays at making a Lord of the Rings MMO… again
Weren't we just here?
I mean, that's what everyone's thinking, am I right? It was just three years ago that I penned a column about...
Warhammer Return of Reckoning celebrates Sigmartag events with nice crispy bacon
Rogue server Warhammer: Return of Reckoning is not running an event about sausages, but also it kind of is! Happy Friday: It's Sigmartag.
"Bells toll...
WoW Factor: Tarisland and the cargo cult of World of Warcraft
We've all made jokes about Tarisland being "we have World of Warcraft at home." That's just a fun thing to make jokes about, and...
Fight or Kite: Star Realms just might be the perfect blend of deckbuilder and dueler
While I was away on a trip over the last few weeks, I was able to play Star Realms, a deckbuilder that I expected...
PlanetSide 2 brings improvements to base construction and a series’ 20th anniversary event on May 17
Whether you're the kind of player who wants to build bases or an old salt that's ready to mark 20 years of frantic FPS...
Gamer who leaked classified military intel was first sharing documents in – wait for it – a War Thunder Discord
Back in April we reported on another unfortunate and alarming case of a gamer spreading classified military documents on the internet, this time involving...
Elder Scrolls Online previews Necrom’s open-world dungeon and a raid inside a madman’s mind
While there's plenty of content in Elder Scrolls Online's Necrom expansion-campaign for solo players, group-oriented gamers will rest assured that there are two new...
Skyforge reruns its Days of Glory event with new rewards and familiar activities
Are you ready to once again face robot ghosts from the past? Then you're ready for another round of the Days of Glory event...
Bungie’s Carrie Gouskos shares the sad story of Warhammer Online’s odd MOBA spin-off
Those faithful Warhammer Online veterans in our audience will no doubt recall the name Carrie Gouskos. Gouskos, who's currently working as an executive producer...
10-year-old Camelot Unchained outlines crafting, encumbrance, and NPC AI development
We're past the month of April, and that means another couple of consolidated updates from Camelot Unchained, as it gesticulates in the direction of...
The MOP Up: World War II Online focuses on rebuilding squads
"Squads" are the watchword of World War II Online as of late, with Cornered Rats pouring more effort into bolstering this group makeup in...
Elite Dangerous’ Update 15 is launching May 9, but we still don’t know what’s in it
Players of Elite: Dangerous have mostly known about Update 15 as the one that got pushed back into May, but now Frontier Developments is...
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s content problems aren’t about quantity
So recently, we asked about what World of Warcraft could do to draw back players that it had lost. To be clear, that's a...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 420: The New, Mad World of Warcraft
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2's content cadence, the Microsoft Activision-Blizzard buyout, Blizzard's messy financials, WoW's 10.1 patch, the end of forums for New World and Lost Ark, the death of a whole class in MapleStory, the messy launch of Mad World, and the surprise return of Fractured, plus adventures in LOTRO and Star Trek Online.
Fight or Kite: Eternal Card Game puts a real focus both PvE and PvP
This week in Fight or Kite, I'm taking on Eternal. It’s another dueling card game that at least on the face of it doesn’t...
Anvil Empires elaborates on blacksmithing, player settlements, and its worldbuilding tech
Foxhole developer Siege Camp is continuing to keep fans abreast of what's happening with Anvil Empires, the medieval-themed persistent war MMO built for thousand-person...
