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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Perfect Ten: 10 old MMO promises that never happened
Developers like to talk a big game. It's expected, it's encouraged by all parties, and it's part of the fun. When a game or...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 422: Two Lord of the Rings MMOs to rule them all
Justin and Bree discuss Amazon's new LOTR MMO (again), LOTRO's King's Gondor, WoW's Fractured in Time, official WoW Classic hardcore, Diablo IV, FFXIV, and financials for NCsoft, Square, and Pearl Abyss, with adventures in LOTRO, SWTOR, and SWG Legends.
EVE Online has suffered chat outages all week (and they’re still happening)
Hello, EVE Online? It's us, your friends and family. We're knocking on your door because we just want to talk... but no one can...
Global Chat: How do you play older MMOs?
It's always a challenge -- sometimes an insurmountable one -- when you jump into older MMORPGs after being conditioned by modern experiences. To help...
Pearl Abyss Q1 2023: Black Desert and EVE Online revenues continue to decline
Pearl Abyss' flurry of promotion and trailer drops this week might have been an early clue that its Q1 wasn't looking so hot, and...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 421: Beyond time and space
Justin and Bree discuss Star Trek Online Unraveled, SWTOR Old Wounds, Gamigo's move out of MMOs, Chrono Odyssey's reveal, EVE's 20th anniversary, LOTRO's new raid, and Villagers and Heroes' housing patch, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW Classic, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on WoW's wild lore.
Unity slashes 600 jobs in its latest round of layoffs
It's not been the best year to work at Unity, as the tech company has gone through multiple rounds of layoffs and office closures....
Perfect Ten: What FFA PvP has to offer the MMO space
Before any of you look at the title, the author, and then at your screen again in disbelief, let me disabuse you of any...
EVE Online begins 20th anniversary with mural reveal, events, and June Viridian expansion details
It's time to ignore some goofass business decisions and accentuate the positive in EVE Online as the spaceship sandbox MMO is celebrating its 20th...
Gloria Victis recaps Season of the Wolves, previews feature plans
Have you fought the wolf man in Gloria Victis yet? Did you not realize there's a wolf man waiting to be fought? Then you...
Massively Overthinking: What should MMOs do when guild leaders vanish?
Last week, we covered that wild story about a "heist" in EVE Online that allowed the perpetrators to make off with trillions of ISK...
CCP Games is already sunsetting EVE Anywhere after just a year in the wild
Back in 2021, CCP Games made a big to-do over a browser client for EVE Online called EVE Anywhere - essentially a cloud-hosted version...
Gloria Victis introduces a siege mode for Valley of Death and a werewolf boss for guilds to fight
With Gloria Victis making its full launch this past February, the next logical step for the sandbox is to introduce a werewolf. Yes, this...
EVE Online players commandeered a dormant guild and made off with $22K in plunder
As most longtime MMO players know, leaders going AFK for extended periods can result in all kinds of shenanigans in player organizations behind their...
Massively Overthinking: How to alienate your MMORPG playerbase
I am not a Pokemon Go player, but I can't help but stare at its many trainwrecks thanks to the detailed coverage of our...
EVE Online is putting its new launcher and graphical upgrades to the test today
MMO launchers follow a very basic principle: Nobody ever notices a good one, but a bad one can sully the whole game. Which one...
Star Vault says newly announced sci-fi MMO Mortal Exodus won’t pull resources from Mortal Online 2
We're not sure whether to raise our eyebrows or be impressed by the ambition shown by the fact that a small company with two...
Mortal Online 2 offers a preview of player-built towns arriving in its upcoming territory control update
Sure, you can just walk up to characters in Mortal Online 2 and smack them in the head with your weapon of choice, but...
EVE Online’s month-long battle at X47L-Q concludes with a destroyed keepstar and trillions of ISK in losses
Over the past few weeks, a battle has been unfolding in EVE Online in X47L-Q, which drew in some impressive numbers in terms of...
CCP Games’ CEO defends Project Awakening’s existence as the studio seeks a blockchain ecosystem dev
Any cryptocurrency-focused video that opens with a gigantic legal disclaimer stating its content shouldn't be taken as legal or financial advice should immediately set...
