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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Ashes of Creation’s latest video walks players through building up a node in Alpha Two
Nodes. They're an important piece of the gameplay loop in Ashes of Creation, letting players establish towns, become citizens, and ostensibly giving players reasons...
Sea of Thieves releases its next Monkey Island adventure and a host of cosmetic goodies
Guybrush Threepwood is caught in a dream-like spell, and it's up to denizens of the Sea of Thieves to save him. Welcome to the...
Indie MMO Gloria Victis and its studio are shutting down on Halloween after a decade online
I'm sorry to report this afternoon that the long-running siege PvP MMORPG Gloria Victis is sunsetting. Polish indie studio Black Eye Games made the...
Over 3,000 EVE Online players assembled for an impromptu battle at 4-ABS8
This week brought some fresh fun for people who enjoy hearing about EVE Online scrums from the sidelines (and ideally for those players participating...
Sea of Thieves announces dates for its next Monkey Island Tall Tale and a Legends Week event
The latest news digest video from Sea of Thieves has dropped a couple of noteworthy dates for players of the seafaring sandbox, particularly those...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Starship Traders, Arena Breakout, X8, Jumanji, The Grey War
Welcome back to another rundown of some MMOs and other multiplayer titles you've probably never heard of!
Starship Traders - MMO Fallout put this one...
Global Chat: Getting sucked into Palia
Cozy life sim Palia is making more converts, even after a rough start. One player who's glowing brightly about the title is The Friendly...
The Daily Grind: Is it ever too late to save a gankbox MMO?
Back in July, Pearl Abyss raised eyebrows by announcing plans to curb Black Desert guilds abusing wardecs to murder rival players with impunity. "It...
EVE Online invites capusuleers to its revived Arc event, Operation Epiphany
CCP Games isn't aiming to let up on the EVE Online content cadence that helped propel the 20-year-old MMO to one of its strongest...
The Daily Grind: Are you playing Guild Wars 2 SOTO today – or another big launch?
August is always a super overwhelming month for me, in MMOs and out. I'm always trying to finish up projects in real life before...
The MOP Up: EVE Online’s Fanfest has officially sold out
Well, that's it: EVE Online's Fanfest is officially sold out this year, so if you were hoping to snag a ticket at this late...
Profane’s August roadmap update heralds a focus on polishing existing features
Sure, adding new stuff to a developing game like Profane isn't necessarily a bad thing, but sometimes you need to circle back to the...
Massively Overthinking: Do you strive to be ‘rich’ in MMORPGs?
Last week, we did a Daily Grind about living our best lives in MMOs, doing things in video games we wish we could do...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMORPGs whose worlds were built from scratch
Maybe I'm the only one to have stopped to think about it, but a great deal of the MMOs that we enjoy are based...
Mortal Online 2’s ‘monumental’ territory control and siege systems are live – here are the patch notes
You've got to fight for your right to hold territory and maybe lay siege to others' territory because you want it yourself! OK admittedly...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 433: Throne & Delay
Justin and Bree discuss Throne & Liberty's delay, WoW's upcoming patch, DDO's mini-expansion, and financial reports for NCsoft, Pearl Abyss, and Square-Enix, with adventures in Palia, LOTRO, New World, and Star Trek Online, plus mailbag topics on rich economy-centric sandboxes and MMOs that need graphical refreshes.
EG7 Q2 2023: Daybreak’s MMORPGs are ‘predictably stable’
It's starting to look as if the Daybreak-run EG7 conglom is finally at the end of its bonkers revenue run: According to the Swedish...
Vague Patch Notes: Almost nobody can save struggling mid-to-small MMOs
A week ago, we all sounded off on the best way to save a small-to-mid-size MMO that was struggling, as prompted by a discussion...
Pearl Abyss Q2 2023: EVE surges, Black Desert stumbles, Crimson Desert hedges
August is a month of quarterly financials, and the season hasn't been kind to the type of MMO company that publishes its numbers. So...
Following Final Fantasy XIV Fanfest COVID outbreak, one fan admits guilt – in a comic
An apparent COVID-19 outbreak at Final Fantasy XIV's Fanfest in Las Vegas a week and a half ago has been punctuated by one fan...
