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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Mortal Online 2 tweaks when players can sub to the game – and adds free time for new subbers
Mortal Online 2 studio StarVault is smooshing around its sub and - if we're reading it right - sweetening the deal by offering players...
EVE Online adjusts spaceship balance as CSM member pivots on CCP’s Project Awakening NFT project
With ships and interstellar warfare being expanded in EVE Online's Havoc update, it was only a matter of time before some adjustment knobs were...
Titan Forge’s EVE War for New Eden board game closed out a successful Kickstarter with $682K
The EVE Online-themed board game has finished out its Kickstarter this week, pulling in roughly $682,000 US from backers - not that there was...
Albion Online’s latest Crystal Raiders patch makes large scale battle-focused weapon tweaks
Players of Albion Online already know that the Crystal Raiders update has been about guild fights, but that doesn't mean things can't be improved...
Past Fate retools the Blackfang Keep zone and releases its first pass at an armor upgrade system
Are you ready to plumb a blacker, more fang-filled Blackfang Keep? You'd better be because Past Fate's latest patch has made some optimizations and...
Sea of Thieves’ latest patch deploys new tech for better performance, adjusts voyages, rep, and rewards
Sea of Thieves is now operating on a new Xbox game developer kit (GDK) as of its most recent patch. That might sound kind...
Reign of Guilds has begun its last playtest ahead of the ‘final sprint’ to early access
The PvP sandbox MMORPG Reign of Guilds is making its final moves before entering an early access launch, as developer Atlant Games began the...
Pearl Abyss Q4 2023: Well at least EVE Online had a good financial year
Pearl Abyss, best known to MMO fans for Black Desert and CCP Games' EVE Online, has continued its humdrum financial performance in Q4 2023,...
Crowfall owner Monumental hit with layoffs while eyeing blockchain
The question of Crowfall's existence has been an unanswered one for quite some time ever since the game was purchased by Mythgard publisher Monumental...
EG7 Q4 2023: DCUO’s delayed latest-gen console launch hurt Daybreak’s revenues last quarter
While bigger games companies continue to flail, EG7 actually managed to grow last year, as its latest investor report demonstrates, with overall revenues up...
Sea of Thieves plans next community weekend and February updates in latest video
The news digest video series from Sea of Thieves is back with its first episode for this year, and in it fans are getting...
Albion Online tweaks staffs, temp-disables duels, readies Turkish and Arabic language support
It has been a busy couple of weeks in the world of Albion Online as Sandbox Interactive has been putting out patches, dealing with...
The Daily Grind: Is there an MMORPG you think shouldn’t be classified as an MMORPG?
We have the MMORPG subreddit to thank for this morning's Daily Grind: At the beginning of January, some bright spark over there posted a...
Black Desert talks up 300v300 War of the Roses PvP and today’s 15v15 Guild League
Black Desert is taking a page out of EVE Online's playbook and promoting its mass-PvP systems - specifically, the War of the Roses pre-season...
Mortal Online 2 opens up its test server for a new balance patch
It's frankly upsetting when you think of players on Mortal Online 2 who for too long have cowered behind shield, resolute and confident in...
Open Perpetuum is bringing land mines, new weapons, and T4 balancing sometime in ‘Marchish’
Markish your calendarsh because the Perpetuum emulator Open Perpetuum is going to be releasing Patch 31 sometime in "Marchish." When is Marchish? We're notsh...
Ashes of Creation showcases how PvP will work for caravan runs in latest preview video
Last November, Ashes of Creation highlighted the act of moving goods from one place to another in a caravan, which was certainly an illustrative...
Reign of Guilds recounts its December playtest and shares patch notes for its next no-wipe test
This past December saw the PvP sandbox Reign of Guilds hold its sixth playtest. That naturally means that developer Atlant Games has gotten some...
Interview: Survival MMO Age of Water on monetization, sandbox play, and the Q1 early access launch
Way back at the end of 2020, we first caught wind of a new sandbox called Age of Water: Developed by Three Whales Studio...
EVE Vanguard resumes playtesting, EVE Echoes changes ship insurance costs
This weekend brings a couple of news pieces from the world of EVE Online, both in the PC and mobile versions of the game,...
