Kotaku: Pvp

Star Wars: The Old Republic Factions Learn to Work Together to Exploit the PVP System

Mike Fahey — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:30:00 EST

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Now that BioWare has instituted fixes limiting the number of Republic and Imperial players taking part in each instance of player-versus-player planet Ilum an uneasy truce has been formed. Now both sides can take turns killing each other for credit! More »

Wait, Don't Cancel Yet! Check Out What's Coming Soon for Star Wars: The Old Republic

Mike Fahey — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:30:00 EST

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With yesterday's patch 1.1 player-versus-player debacle stemming a flood of threatened account cancellations, BioWare has released a video showing off what the coming months have in store for Star Wars: The Old Republic, in case you choose to stick around. More »

Star Wars: The Old Republic Patch 1.1 Breaks High-End PVP

Mike Fahey — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:30:00 EST

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Before Star Wars: The Old Republic's 1.1 patch went live early this morning, player-versus-player combat on the level 50 world of Ilum was slightly broken, with more players focusing on completing non-PVP goals than fighting. After patch 1.1 the zone has been transformed into an Imperial PVP wonderland. More »

Witness the Intense Player Versus Player Combat of The Old Republic's Voidstar Warzone

Mike Fahey — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:30:00 EDT

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It's Republic versus Empire, good versus not-so-good, and most importantly, player versus player onboard the legendary prototype Imperial ship, Voidstar. Sabers up, everyone! More »

Won't World of Warcraft's First Neutral Race Cause Player Vs. Player Pandemonium?

Mike Fahey — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:30:00 EDT

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With Pandaren players able to choose either Horde or Alliance in the Mists of Pandaria expansion pack, World of Warcraft's arenas and battlegrounds will soon see an outbreak of panda-on-panda violence. I asked the game's senior game producer Ray Cobo how players will tell Pandaren apart once the fur starts flying. More »

Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes' Bright Wizard is One Hot Little Number

Mike Fahey — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 22:00:00 EDT

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Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes mixes the player-versus-player combat of Warhammer Online with the champion system of games like DOTA to create a unique free-to-play competitive online experience. Meet Felicia. She'll be your Bright Wizard today. More »

Guild Wars 2 Makes its Player-Versus-Player Debut at Gamescom

Mike Fahey — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:00:00 EDT

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This year's Gamescom in Germany will play host to a bevy of firsts for ArenaNet's eagerly-anticipated MMO sequel Guild Wars 2, including the playable world premiere of PvP combat. Exactly how jealous should I be? More »

Kill Your Magicka Buddies on June 21

Mike Fahey — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:34:00 EDT

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Up until now, Magicka has been a pretty friendly game, but that's all about to change. On June 21, everybody dies when player-versus-player comes to town. More »

A Brutal Initiation to PvP — But One I Chose

Owen Good — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:00:00 EST

I was adjusting my costume atop a skyscraper in Gotham City when a tour bus soared up into view and hovered there. There was a red diamond on my mini-map, meaning an enemy human player. Had I created Wile E. Coyote here in D.C. Universe Online, I would have cowered under a tiny umbrella, or a sign that said "Yipe!" More »

This Is Why You Should Sign-Up For The Darkspore Beta

Mike Fahey — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:00:00 EST

In case our hands-on with Darkspore's action-packed single-player and competitive multiplayer battles weren't enough to whet your appetite for the game, perhaps the full beta trailer will do the trick. More »

Darkspore Splices Fresh DNA Into Online Multiplayer

Mike Fahey — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:00:00 EST

Spore is an amazing creative experience diluted by a broad gameplay focus. Darkspore has one focus: Building a better killing machine. I took my monster squad to task in story mode and player-versus-player combat and lived to tell the tale. More »

Get A Taste Of Diablo III Arena Combat With Bloodline Champions

Mike Fahey — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:20:00 EST

The Arena player-versus-player system coming in Diablo III blew fans away at BlizzCon 2010. Stunlock Studios' newly-released free-to-play PC arena combat game Bloodline Champions feels a lot like Blizzard's competitive multiplayer mode. More »

A Look at Darkspore's Competitive Arena Matches

Brian Crecente — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:00:00 EST

Kotaku got an early look at upcoming PC action role-playing game Darkspore's cooperative multiplayer a couple of weeks back, but this latest video we get a look at the player-versus-player action. More »

A Look At The Old Republic's Player-Versus-Player Warzones

Mike Fahey — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:40:00 EDT

Republic and Imperial forces clash on the world of Alderaan over control of the planet's massive planetary defense cannon in this first detailed look at organized player-versus-player in BioWare's Star Wars: The Old Republic. More »

Diablo III Arena Battles Will Devour Your Soul

Mike Fahey — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 16:30:00 EDT

Last night I had a chance to sit down for 15 minutes of Diablo III multiplayer arena battles. Forty-five minutes later I finally made good on my "just one more round" promise. The wait for this game just got harder. More »

World Of Warcraft Battlegrounds Get Randomized

Mike Fahey — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:20:05 EDT

World of Warcraft patch 3.3.3 is now live, giving players an all-new, all-random way to queue up for the game's popular player-versus-player battlegrounds. More »

City Of Heroes Recruits Heroic Guest Authors

Mike Fahey — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:20:00 EDT

Paragon Studios takes its City of Heroes Mission Architect to the next level, inviting comic book author Bill Willingham, Rooster Teeth Productions and cartoonist Scott Kurtz to author special missions for the game. More »

Destruction Wins! First Warhammer City Capture Completed

Mike Fahey — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:20:00 EDT

Destruction claims victory in Europe as they achieve the ultimate realm-versus-realm objective in Warhammer Online - sacking the enemy capitol and killing their king. More »

World Of Warcraft The Soft Drink

Mike Fahey — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:40:00 EDT

The diabolical gamer-targeting Mountain Dew Game Fuel returns this year, dropping Halo 3 in favor of the massively multiplayer online sensation World of Warcraft. More »

Age Of Conan Noteriety System Coming Very Soon

Mike Fahey — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:40:00 EDT

A little while ago, Age of Conan developers Funcom added the first portion of their player versus player overhaul, putting in place incentives to PVP such as the PVP leveling system that rewards you for killing other players. Unfortunately that half of the overhaul didn't contain consequences for just murdering anyone who happens by, bringing back memories of the early days of Ultima Online, where chopping wood resulted in "OooOooOOoOo" nine times out of ten. Now game director Craig Morrison tells Eurogamer that the Notoriety System, which makes it significantly less attractive to kill everyone, could be in place as early as next week. More »

Warhammer Online Doubles Open-World RVR XP

Mike Fahey — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:40:00 EDT

If you understood the headline you probably know this already, but it bears mentioning anyway. Mythic really, really wants people to kill each other in Warhammer Online, and not just in their encapsulated little ~~battlegrounds~~ scenarios. They want the conflict to rage across the open-world areas as well, and in order to encourage this they've doubled the experience gained from killed the enemy in open Realm versus Realm combat. More »

Runescape Launches PVP Worlds

Mike Fahey — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:40:00 EDT

In the works for quite awhile, primitive though still wildly popular among fans free MMO Runescape has just launched PVP worlds, special PVP servers where players can fight against other players with their precious, precious items at risk. Characters are required to have a combat level of 20 to even enter a PVP world, where combat may be initiated anywhere but a few choice safe areas such as banks, a fact that is sure to make banks very crowded indeed. More »

Age Of Conan's All-Dancing, All-PVPing Evolution Plans

Mike Fahey — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:40:00 EDT

So Funcom and Eidos released Age of Conan, and hundreds of thousands of players have signed up...what now? The two companies have revealed their plans for evolving Age of Conan over the coming months, with heaps of new content influenced directly by player feedback in the pipes. More »

EVE Online Enters Empyrean Age

Mike Fahey — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:20:00 EDT

The latest expansion to CCP Games' deep space MMO EVE Online has just gone live, bringing space-miners, space-moguls, and space-fighters alike into the Empyrean Age. The expansion focuses on two of the most important aspects of any MMO, storyline and PVP, introducing factional warfare, a system of militia ranks, system occupancy, combat zones, and factional warfare bases for players to capture and control. Each of the factions now has a corporation open to all pilots to help coordinate war efforts. More »

PVP In The Age Of Conan

Mike Fahey — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:00:00 EDT

From here on out, game trailers lose points with me if they don't have a guy green-screened over the gameplay footage, pointing out features like some gaming weather man. Witness Age of Conan product manager Erling Ellingsen (whose name does amazing things to the tongue) discussing the finer point of PVP in the game, from the PVP level system to the different locations available for wholesale slaughter of your fellow players in Hyboria. I love how he calls them PVP mini-games. Makes me think that at any moment Wario is going to pop out and demand you pick his nose in under three seconds, which is a feature that would completely sell me on the game. More »

Blizzard Launches Global WoW Arena Tournaments

Mike Fahey — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:20:45 EST

If you're one of those obnoxious World of Warcraft players always bragging in general chat about how much ass you kick in the PVP arena, it's time to put your money where your mouth is. No no, stop stuffing dollar bills up your ass - what I mean is Blizzard is launching a new type of Global Arena Tournament, where for a buy in price ($20 USD) players can hop on a special realm, create a level 70 with epic gear, and battle it out 3-vs.-3 style for a chance at a $75,000 grand prize.

"eSports is one of the most exciting facets of online gaming today," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "We're pleased to expand World of Warcraft's tournament options for players who want to focus mainly on the competitive aspect of the game."

Tournaments are scheduled to begin in April with online qualifiers in Europe, South Korea, North America, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. Hit the jump for the full details complete with a run down of the fabulous cash and prizes up for grabs. More »

Furious Fury Combat Trailer

Mike Fahey — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:20:26 EDT

Auron is ready to start sending out invitations for the first round of closed beta testing for its massively multiplayer online PVP game, Fury, and to commemorate the occasion they've released this gameplay trailer showing you what kind of action you can expect to run into should you be picked. If you like what you see you can still head over to Unleashthefury.com and give signing up a go. I've not had my hands on the game since GDC but what I saw was definitely worth looking into. More »

Time on Web Comics

Brian Crecente — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:00:41 EDT

One more nail in newspapers' coffin. More »

Lineage II's Chaotic Chronicle Concludes

Mike Fahey — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:20:44 EST

Lineage II, the massively popular (just not in the states) MMORPG and an excellent place to get your ass handed to you over and over again by very pretty polygons is moving into a new era, as NCSoft announces The Chaotic Throne - Interlude. This update serves to bridge the ending of the Chaotic Chronicle and the beginning of a brand new chapter in the game's storyline, which I would have loved to delve into had you people stopped killing me for a minute. The update introduces a new dinosaur-themed zone, over 15,000 new items, more weapon upgrade options, a dueling system where you can get your fight on without harassing new players, more quests and over 60 new skills. Also of note are Shadow Weapons, which are cheap versions of high-level weapons with a limited duration, an innovation I completely approve of. The update will hit sometime in April of this year. Michael Fahey More »

WoW PVE Netherdrakes In The Works

Mike Fahey — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:20:14 EST

Dissent has been stirring among WoW players who were concerned that the only way to achieve the flying Netherdrake mount that Blizzard showcased as a key feature of the Burning Crusade expansion was through participating in group PVP arena matches. This of course has caused much fighting between PVP players and the non-PVP players, who felt they had been slighted. Those worries have now been put to rest by the wonderful men in blue type. More »

WoW 2.0.1 Patch Arrives

Mike Fahey — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:40:35 EST

World of Warcraft patch 2.0.1, titled "Before the Storm", goes live today! One of the largest patches to date, the update sees a metric ass-ton of changes to the most popular MMORPG in the world. Highlights include new talents across the board accompanied by a complete talent point reimbursement for all players, the much anticipated looking for group tool, which allows you to look for a group down to a specific quest, new PVP arenas for group on group battles, and a complete revamp of the Honor System that relegates all of those hard won rank titles into tags over the players' heads. This patch paves the way for The Burning Crusade, due out January 16th. More »

Massive Intergalactic Conflict Starts In Eve Online

kotaku.com — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:40:30 EDT

Something interesting is happening in Eve Online, the massive space MMORPG: the largest alliances in the game, Band of Brothers and Ascendant Frontier, have declared war on each other, sucking 9,000 players into the game's first truly massive PvP conflict. Huge battles are taking place for entire systems. And all in a game I once declared the world's prettiest spreadsheet. More »

Age of Conan's Blood Money PVP System

egauger — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:55:35 EDT

I've been keeping an eye on the new Conan MMO, my little Frazetta-soaked innards clenching rhythmically with each new screenshot or news of the coming bloodshed. Even if I don't end up playing, the mere presence of the game will soothe some open wound in my soul that responds only the balm of barbarians. More »

Gank With Honor: How PvP Should Be

egauger — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 19:40:12 EDT

Though slightly floofy in a Renn Faire way, this article over on Got Game? touches on some issues with the PvP system in World of Warcraft, even bringing the credibility budget into it (though the exact term is not applied). More »

WoW Funeral Party Gets Owned

brownlee — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 15:40:38 EDT

Brief summary of the story behind this video: a well loved World of Warcraft PVPer suffered a stroke, died and her guild decided to hold a memorial service for her in game. Note the orderly line to view the "corpse." A rival guild then decided to slaughter them all. If you want more information, Joe Rybicki has more. More »