
Microsoft has announced it will buy Activision Blizzard for nearly $70 billion in an all-cash deal.

MMORPGs with PVP is nothing new, with many MMOs in the early days of the genre making their bones on hardcore, full-loot player combat. Nowadays PvP is just one aspect of what makes a good MMO, though some take it a bit more seriously than others. Here are 13 MMOs to test your skill against each other this year.

Riot’s upcoming MMO set in the League of Legends universe is still under tight wraps, though the executive producer on the title, Greg ‘Ghostcrawler’ Street has pulled the veil back a bit this past weekend. When asked about the approach to group content in the upcoming MMO, Street discussed their philosophy behind this for the upcoming MMO.