rvr

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.

Lord of the Rings Online wraps up another leg of update 35 testing with revamp of The Last Homely House

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Even as the spring festival begins today, Lord of the Rings Online's devs are back on Bullroarer testing update 35: The Return to Carn...

Dark Age of Camelot brings back its speed-leveling event, Catch Up in Caledonia

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The "it" MMO from 2001 is looking for a few good souls to put through its medieval meat grinder -- with a leg up,...
Actually developing a title to not be a boring slog is a skill some developers have yet to master.

Perfect Ten: 10 franchises that deserve another shot at an MMO

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Some experiments are attempted once and fail, and it's not hard to figure out why that didn't work. We don't really need to take...

Fight or Kite: Shadowverse is a wildly successful card game, but it takes cash to compete

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Next up in the carousel of card game cutouts we're going to look at here in MOP's Fight or Kite column is a tiny,...

PvP MMO ArcheAge War debuts video on its feature set ahead of March 21 Korean launch

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Fans in South Korea are ready for some more ArcheAge, believe it or not, as the PC and mobile cross-platform PvP MMO ArcheAge War...

Black Desert console starts a new Node War season, Black Desert PC is free to claim until March 9

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We're back with another mid-week news dump from Black Desert, this time featuring updates and headlines from the console and PC editions of the...
Do you really want to hurt me?

WoW Factor: World of Warcraft is just coasting down the mountain

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In November 1994, Marvel Comics launched a new comic book spin-off from the main X-Men series. Generation X, written by Scott Lobdell, was in...

Lost Ark is getting faction-based RvR PvP content later this month

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If you're among those players who are looking for more PvP things to do in Lost Ark, then you're going to enjoy this month's...

Meet Pax Dei, a well-funded open-world social sandbox built to ‘true MMO scale’

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Back in 2021, we caught wind of a new Microsoft-backed MMO called Pax Dei from studio Mainframe Industries, which had been busy raising huge...

Choose My Adventure: New tutorials and old habits see Destiny 2’s hooks set in

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I'm going to admit it to myself: In spite of my misgivings about what awaits me at the endgame, I can feel myself getting...

The Front is a new survival shooter coming in 2023 with 10 ‘distinct survival indices’ to track

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Heads-up, folks, we got a new MMO acronym comin' in hot: survival-open-world-crafting aka SOC. Will it stick? Well, Samar Studio's new "SOC" called The...

Lord of the Rings Online’s Shadowfax server heads toward its final stretch with Minas Morgul unlock

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Lord of the Rings Online's fastest progressing (and least populated) server is nearing its final months of existence, as Standing Stone Games has plans...

The Daily Grind: What’s the oldest MMO you tried super late in its lifetime?

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Earlier this month, an MOP reader tweeted about trying Dark Age of Camelot for the first time in 2023 and falling in love, which...

One Shots: That moment when you missed your cruise ship’s departure

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The day had started so promisingly. You had docked in a tropical port full of free-flowing wine, endless parties, numerous souvenir shops, and nary...
Infinite Crisis

The Game Archaeologist: The tale of Infinite Crisis, Turbine’s extremely short-lived DC Comics MOBA

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Sharp minds will recall that back in 2012, EA Mythic attempted to turn its declining MMO fortunes by repackaging Warhammer Online into a MOBA...

Massively Overthinking: The MMO characters we want to love but don’t

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A few weeks ago, MOP reader Neurotic pinged the MOP Podcast with a question about characters we want to love but just don't. He...
Whoops.

WoW Factor: Does World of Warcraft need more classes?

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So how many classes are there in World of Warcraft? There are wrong answers, but there's more than one right answer. If your answer was...

The Daily Grind: Do you like zerg vs. zerg PvP in MMOs?

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Early on in 2023, Sandbox Interactive sent Albion Online players a detailed survey asking about their game preferences, and included within was a question...

Fight or Kite: The Witcher card game GWENT checks off a lot of the right boxes – but too many of the wrong ones

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Continuing on my journey to digital card game bliss, I chose to try out a game I had mentally filed as one of the...

EVE Echoes adds customizable jumpgates, new ships, and a corporation war simulation feature

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Last time we peeked in on the mobile MMO EVE Echoes, it was kicking off its own citizen scientist Project Discovery initiative to help...

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