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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Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Most Likely to Flop
Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our most likely to flop in 2016 and beyond award.
Last year, Star Citizen took home this dishonor, leading to...
One Shots: Underground wonders
Spelunking isn't just a fun word to say but an exciting activity in its own right. Players who take the time to explore under...
H1Z1 gets comfortable with food
What does H1Z1 and The Sims have in common? Other than being gruesome torture boxes for innocent video game characters, both games are focused...
Rokh offers a persistent multiplayer survival sandbox set on Mars
If H1Z1's zombies and ARK: Survival Evolved's dinos aren't your kind of survival sandbox, how about one set on the planet Mars?
Darewise Entertainment and...
Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Biggest Disappointment of 2015
Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the biggest MMO disappointment of 2015.
Last year, we gave this "award" to WildStar and ArcheAge in...
EVE’s ‘ISIS’ ship browser gets a rename
EVE Online's Operation Frostline patch yesterday brought to light an intriguing change: a new name for the game's ship browser, the Interbus Ship Identification System, otherwise...
Darkfall requests community feedback; F2P is off the table
It's not exactly a secret that Darkfall Unholy Wars isn't a darling of the entire Darkfall fandom, considering that there are two separate attempts...
EVE Online releases its December patch with Operation Frostline
The winter holidays are very different when you are in space and literally everyone is threatening to blow your ship up. That's hardly the...
Gloria Victis revises combat mechanics and more
Alpha-state fantasy sandbox Gloria Victis pushed out a press release late this week touting "massive" amounts of polish and bug-fixing for the latest build....
H1Z1’s booby traps look fairly painful
Have you ever trapped an actual booby? It seems like that would be pretty difficult. I won't get into the hows and whys and...
EVE Online welcomes back lapsed accounts to test its new server hardware
You remember that EVE Online is testing out some new hardware for its live servers, yes? Awesome. Because you're invited to take part in...
Albion’s Aurelius update to add PvE dungeons, usability tweaks, and more
Sandbox Interactive says that Albion's closed beta launch has been "very successful," and as such the firm is now giving fans a glimpse of its near...
EVE Online player counted among the victims of mass shooting
The mass-shooting in San Bernadino, California, on Wednesday apparently claimed the life of a popular EVE Online player.
According to friends on Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit, Robert "Photon...
EVE Online discusses installing and testing new server hardware
Server technology is definitely some sort of black alchemy. The new EVE Online server technology is being installed and tested at the CCP Games...
EVE: Gunjack launches on Samsung Gear VR
Not every inhabitant of the EVE Online universe is some fancy hotshot pilot with a billion-ISK warship under his or her seat. As CCP...
EVE Online adds in dirt and kill marks to ships
A factory-fresh ship in EVE Online should not look exactly the same as one that's been through countless corporate wars. There should be some...
Albion Online’s PvP zones and flagging explained
As Albion Online's development has progressed, Sandbox Interactive has utilized player feedback to refine the PvP system, acknowledging that for all the hardcore PvPers...
EVE Evolved: Three EVE mechanics that need an update
With over 12 years of development under its belt, EVE Online has now revamped, rebalanced or replaced practically every part of its gameplay at...
Massively OP’s holiday gift guide for EverQuest franchise and Daybreak fans
It's that time of year again: when you realize half-way through your indulgence of in-game festivals that you totally forgot to go out and...
One Shots: The rowsdower abides
One of my most prized physical MMO possessions is my WildStar rowsdower plushie. It always sits there, looking at me as though it's accusing...
