Gankboxes are sandboxes that place such an emphasis on unrestricted free-for-all PvP that ganking comes to dominate the entire game, to the detriment of the rest of the world design.
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Darkfall: Rise of Agon runs down its pre-launch checklist
With less than a month to go before flipping on the switch to its live servers, the Darkfall: Rise of Agon team must be...
EVE Evolved: Video highlights from EVE Fanfest 2017
For a few days each year, hundreds of EVE Online players from across the world flock to a frozen volcanic rock at the top of the world for...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most boring MMORPG around?
I've mentioned in a previous Daily Grind that I once fell asleep in the middle of an incredibly boring raid in EverQuest. It wasn't...
Dark Horse teams up with CCP for EVE Online frigate schematic book
Are you 1337 enough for EVE Online?
The internet spaceships game is accepting pre-orders for a new book featuring the schematics of its vessels. CCP...
EVE Fanfest 2017: EVE Online plans amazing new PvE gameplay
Today's EVE Online is a far cry from the empty but hopeful sandbox released back in 2003, having constantly re-invented itself for over 14 years...
Jukebox Heroes: Your top six favorite MMO music themes
After over a month of voting and counting down, we've arrived at the final six picks for your favorite MMORPG theme songs of all...
EVE Vegas is coming this October, tix go on sale
Missed out on this year's EVE Fanfest? There's still a chance for redemption, comradery, and geeky fun with this October's EVE Vegas event. For...
EVE Fanfest 2017: Hands-on with competitive VR sports game Sparc
At the end of February, CCP Games announced a new game that has nothing to do with EVE Online or even the EVE IP. Named Sparc,...
One Shots: Eight-bit vista
One of my favorite MMO April Fools of all time is Guild Wars 2's playable Super Adventure Box. It's so brilliantly designed and executed...
EVE Fanfest 2017: EVE Online joins the hunt for exoplanets through Project Discovery
The scientific community has been buzzing lately with the incredible news that a star system less than 40 lightyears away named TRAPPIST-1 was found...
Darkfall: Rise of Agon deploys a major patch with new spawning mushrooms and Champions
The most recent patch to Darkfall: Rise of Agon does a lot of things for spawning. For one thing, it introduces the game's dynamic...
H1Z1 adds more east coast servers, new team follow cam
Here's an unfortunate scenario: You are taking part in an elimination-style match and you have just been killed. What is there to do next?...
EVE Evolved: EVE Online’s moon mining overhaul and the future of conflict
Just under four years ago at EVE Fanfest 2013, EVE Online's Executive Producer Andie Nordgren took the stage and delivered an epic long-term vision for the...
SuperData examines gambling practices across the online gaming industry
Gambling in video games has been a huge topic for devoted MMORPG players over the last year or so, as core MMOs like Guild...
EVE Fanfest will play host to deadly plague this weekend
In a macabre move, EVE Fanfest 2017 (this coming weekend!) is merging game activity and convention to bring its players in contact with a deadly...
CCP Games says the number of VR units on the market is ‘amazing’
I sure hope you're not tired of CCP Games talking about VR because CCP can't stop won't stop.
The video game studio known best for...
Massively Overthinking: Competition vs. community in MMOs
Quantic Foundry, the games research group we've been tracking ever since it posted its original Gamer Motivation Model, has a new piece out this...
Dean Hall announces Stationeers, yet another new sci-fi sandbox
Remember back when DayZ creator Dean Hall was building ambitious sci-fi full-scale sandbox MMO Ion, inspired by EVE Online and Space Station 13? Remember...
H1Z1: King of the Kill is a game no one likes that’s still on Steam’s top games
Do you like H1Z1: King of the Kill? That's a trick question; just a quick glance at the game's Steam page would reveal that...
EVE Online plans Blood Raider capital ships with dedicated bays for player corpses
Perhaps the most disturbing of the pirate factions in EVE Online's dystopian universe is the Blood Raider Covenant, a radical Amarrian cult who drain the...
