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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Neverwinter’s Northdark Reaches module is live on PC and console today
It's a huge day for PC players of Cryptic's Neverwinter, as the Northdark Reaches launches on the platform. There hasn't been a whole lot...
RuneScape previews its SMITE crossover and plants a garden in the desert, Old School RuneScape talks poll changes
Today is seeing a veritable flood of news rushing out of Jagex's two ever-running MMORPGs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, so we're going to...
The Stream Team: A quick hop into PlanetSide 2 before its world record attempt
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Elder Scrolls Online’s Firesong DLC and Update 36 are live for PC players
It's DLC week in The Elder Scrolls Online world as Firesong officially launched for PC last night, bringing the 2022 Legacy of the Bretons...
Kakao Q3 2022: Revenue down, pipeline packed with ArcheAge War, Ares, Odin Valhalla Rising, Dysterra
Kakao Games released Q3 financials this morning, and it's packed with good and bad news. Let's do the bad first: Revenue is down by...
Almost 2M PlayStation Plus subbers quit this summer following pricing revamp
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War Thunder celebrates a decade of operation with special vehicles, events, and sales
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Fight or Kite: Galahad 3093 turns the knights of the round into mech fighters in a cyberpunk future
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Wolcen Lords of Mayhem guarantees players will fail if they rush the final boss of the Storm’s Fall update
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War Thunder’s Fire and Ice update goes live with Finnish armor, flamethrowing vehicles, and new maps
Seeing a tank rumbling toward you is probably terrifying enough, but seeing one that's also spewing giant gouts of flame can only make things...
Gloria Victis carves itself out a bloody Halloween update
Did you really think that Gloria Victis would be too caught up in its faction war to break for some spooky fun? The early...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO conspiracy?
You probably don't know this about me, but one of my hobby subjects is pseudoscience and conspiracies and why people fall for them. I've...
Loric Games commits Mythic and BioWare vets to building a survival game rich in story
What happens when you combine the experience of former BioWare and Mythic Entertainment devs with the survival sandbox sub-genre? We're all projected to find...
WoW Factor: The Dragonflight pre-patch talent trees fix a lot of problems in WoW
If you don't want to read an entire column in which I talk about the new talent trees in World of Warcraft... good gosh,...
Whatever happened to throne war MMO Crowfall?
It's been some time since we peered in on the news coming out of Crowfall, the Kickstarted PvP "throne war" MMO originally from developer...
Dark Age of Camelot’s recurring Halloween festivities return for another year
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LOTRO Legendarium: 10 reasons to get psyched about Before the Shadow (that aren’t the new zones)
Standing Stone Games went and pulled a classic case of misdirection on all of us -- and I'm not complaining. While the studio had...
WoW Factor: Thoughts on the two-pronged pre-patch rollout for Dragonflight
So we now know exactly how World of Warcraft is going to handle the Dragonflight pre-patch. We'll be getting the initial launch of systems...