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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EVE Evolved: Fitting Tech 3 Tactical Destroyers as PvP brawlers
The past few months have seen a flood of frequent updates hitting EVE Online, and among them we got a whole new class of...
Massively Overthinking: Dealing with toxicity in MMO communities
This week's Massively Overthinking comes to us from Kickstarter donor Dahui, who asks,
"What do you think MMO developers can do to try to minimize...
H1Z1 targets bear AI, goes on sale for $8
As impossible as it might have seemed, H1Z1's next patch is going to be improving bear AI to make the ursine contingent of the...
EVE Online offers players a big gift of skill points for unexpected downtime
Server issues happen. They are inevitable. The development teams behind games do everything within their power to make sure that they don't happen, but...
The Stream Team: Surviving the H1Z1 times
There's more to life than just surviving... unless you're in H1Z1, that is! MassivelyOP's MJ is delving back into the post-apocalyptic world to put...
EVE Online details the ins and outs of Sovereignty
The big focus in EVE Online recently has been Sovereignty, the process of taking control of the valuable resources in nullsec space. But how...
Smed nukes his own Twitter account
The Smed Twitter spigot is no longer dispensing tweets.
Daybreak President John Smedley is famous for his stready stream of Twitter dialogue with MMO gamers,...
H1Z1 postpones roadmap plans to focus on cleanup
Sometimes you just have to stop moving forward and take a little time to get things cleaned up. The team working behind the scenes...
Pathfinder Online starts Wrath of Nhur Athemon event
Just because Pathfinder Online is still in the early access phase doesn't mean that it can't throw an event or two into the mix.
In...
The Daily Grind: What do you do when you ‘finish’ your main MMO goals?
There's a sense of satisfaction when you wrap up a big set of goals. You're downed the last boss of the last raid tier...
EVE Online previews upcoming nullsec and sovereignty changes
The world of EVE Online's nullsec is changing. It's not getting any safer, no, but the nature of the dangers you face therein are...
Gloria Victis adds a PvP arena and an attack power bar
Gloria Victis has updated with a new PvP arena and an attacks power bar. The latter allows players to control the strength of their...
EVE Online releases Aegis part 1, preps part 2
The first of two July patches for EVE Online is rolling out today, with Aegis part 1 unloading an array of changes and features...
Ion’s Dean Hall wants to show how much innovation is possible in MMOs
If you're curious about Dean Hall's new Ion project that was recently announced at E3, a new interview at Polygon might be worth reading.
Hall explains...
EVE Online deploys Aegis part 1 tomorrow
EVE Online's newest content update is apparently so big that developer CCP has decided to split it up into two chunks.
The first part of...
Make My MMO: July 4, 2015
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Pathfinder Online introduced mules. No, not your dual-boxed healer or the crafter avatar that you force your kid to...
Pathfinder adds mules, cautions against attacking them
Goblinworks has added mules to Pathfinder Online, according to a new dev blog by designer Lee Hammock. Mules are intended to make long-range travel...
CCP taps Zendesk for EVE customer support
CCP's latest dev blog address changes to EVE Online's customer support. More specifically, New Eden has a new customer support help center courtesy of...
The Daily Grind: Have you been to an MMO fan event?
CCP put EVE Online's Fanfest 2016 tickets on sale this week, and while I haven't played the sci-fi sandbox in some time, the annual...
G.I.R.L. scholarship winners get H1Z1 internship
Daybreak's eight-year-running Gamers in Real Life (G.I.R.L.) scholarship program is done evaluating applicants and ready to proclaim the winners. That's right, winners plural; this...
