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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Gloria Victis improves heavy armor, tweaks weapons, and lets shields stop arrows in latest update
When you raise a shield in order to block an arrow, you reasonably expect it to stop that arrow from hitting you. Apparently, that...
Rockstar draws a line in the sand over GTA Online roleplay servers creating NFTs
One of the many ways players engage with Grand Theft Auto Online is by creating third-party roleplay servers, which often can change the game...
Massively Overthinking: The best cooking in MMORPGs
You probably thought tonight's Massively Overthinking would have a gratitude theme, what with the holiday and all. Nope, not this time, although it's sort...
Mortal Online 2 bans hundreds of accounts for an exploit that avoided full loot on death
You can possibly understand why players of Mortal Online 2 would be attracted to an exploit that allowed you to play the game and...
EVE Online celebrates Spanish players with in-game events as Fanfest tickets are nearly sold out
EVE Online has decided to take a few days out of this week to celebrate its Spanish-speaking community and the game's soft-launch of its...
Steam’s autumn sale is live now through November 29 – here are a few MMOs with good deals
Like clockwork, the autumn Steam sale has returned for the gaming world with deals just in time for Thanksgiving or Black Friday or Small-Business...
Mortal Online 2 offers a sneak peek at its upcoming weather system in a livestream
Bad weather can happen, but it doesn't happen all that much in Mortal Online 2. That's going to change sometime soon, however, as the...
EVE Online begins testing a new default overview UI
The overview window of EVE Online is the most important part of the game's UI, as it effectively is the tool players use to...
CCP Games has already locked down dates and early details for its EVE Fanfest 2023
We are all a very long way from September 2023, but CCP Games is still eager to tie down that month as the one...
EG7 Q3 2022: LOTRO’s monthly active players are up 11% compared to last year
If you can pull your eyes away from the Activision-Blizzard/NetEase trainwreck that unfolded overnight, then we've got a blast of new financial news for...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 396: Crowfalling
Justin and Bree discuss Crowfall, Blue Protocol, SWTOR, New World, Q3 2022 financials (for Blizzard, Pearl Abyss, Square Enix, NCsoft), and new patches (for DDO, Neverwinter, Blade and Soul, EVE Online, Guild Wars 2, Elder Scrolls Online), with a mailbag topic covering Shadowbane, Second Live, Secret World, and Ultima Online.
EVE Online hits its second highest daily user count for November thanks to Uprising and promotional offers
Last week saw EVE Online release its much ballyhooed Uprising update, bringing along with it new ship variants, the frontlines mode, and more to...
Pearl Abyss Q3 2022: DokeV and Crimson Desert delays, CCP’s new blockchain game, and EVE Online’s uptick
Pearl Abyss, primarily known around these parts as the company that owns EVE Online and Black Desert, has released its third quarter earnings report...
Mortal Online 2 adds combining skill and gives pets a whole lotta love
PvP slaughterhouse Mortal Online 2 is coming off a busy week with not one, not three, but two patches containing several quality-of-life improvements.
The bigger...
Perfect Ten: 10 metrics to check to gauge MMO success or failure
There are a lot of MMOs out there. How do you know which one of them is the most popular and therefore the best...
EVE Online brings new ship variants, frontlines, and shinier hangars in today’s Uprising update
The latest update for EVE Online has been the talk of the game for a while now (and has reportedly been drawing in a...
EVE Online’s Uprising update will try to fight high sec griefing and circumvention of abyssal space risk
While there are certainly some big spotlight items coming to EVE Online in its November 8th Uprising expansion, there are other updates planned for...
A huge star just ruptured in EVE Online in the lead-up to the Uprising expansion
EVE Online is bringing in the forthcoming Uprising expansion with a bang, quite literally.
According to CCP's event lore, the Amarr empire placed experimental transmuter...
EVE Online ties down a November 8 launch date for Uprising and shows off 16 new spaceships
There have been two big news updates for EVE Online, both of which are tied to the game's upcoming Uprising expansion. CCP Games has...
Mortal Online 2 roadmap promises territory control, sieges, thievery, and Unreal Engine 5 upgrade
Star Vault hasn't shared precise dates for Mortal Online 2's content updates, but fans have an idea of approximately what is coming at the...
