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 Fanfest 2022: CCP delivered free food to EVE Online players waylaid by the Fanfest COVID outbreak
It's been over a week since EVE Online players from around the world met up in Reyjkavik, Iceland, for EVE Fanfest 2022, the first...
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Since Darkfall: Rise of Agon is effectively trying to hit the reset button with a new Steam version launch, reason would stand that some...
Massively Overthinking: If you could change one thing about an MMO…
Back in April, MOP's Colin posed us an interesting challenge on the MOP Podcast: change one thing about an MMO you don't like that...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 372: Blizzard’s great mobile hope
Justin and bree discuss Blizzard's quarterly financials, Diablo Immortal, Warcraft Arclight Rumble, Forsaken World's sunset, ZeniMax's rumored Star Wars MMO, and EVE Fanfest and its COVID outbreak, with adventures in LOTRO and SWG Legends, plus a voicemail topic on MMOs moving from fantasy to sci-fi.
Open-source MMORPG sandbox Ryzom has lowered its subscription price – again
This spring, at least two major MMORPGs, RuneScape and EVE Online, made the bold move to increase their subscription rates as their playerbases grumbled....
EVE Fanfest 2022: All the major EVE Online announcements from Fanfest
It's safe to say that EVE Fanfest 2022 was very much a social event first and a game event second, with fewer concrete announcements...
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EVE Fanfest 2022: The EVE Online universe FPS is still in development
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Darkfall: Rise of Agon preps Steam closed beta, ‘retires’ official forums
Five years after Darkfall: Rise of Agon launched, the PvP MMORPG is getting ready to go into closed beta once more. This time, however,...
EVE Fanfest 2022: EVE Online is getting a Spanish client
EVE Online has been an intensely international game throughout its lifetime, with significant audiences across the US, Europe, and Russia. Most players are stuck...
EVE Fanfest 2022: EVE Online puts spreadsheets in your spreadsheets
While EVE Online's nickname of "spreadsheets in space" was intended as a joke, the developers behind the game are really leaning into it. CEO...
EVE Online turns 19 years old with new skins and smuggler-hunting
EVE Online's anniversary is upon us once again as this year the sci-fi sandbox turns 19 years old. CCP Games has pulled out its...
EVE Online shares a ‘megablog’ of details, events, and schedules for its upcoming Fanfest
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Working As Intended: LFD, community accountability, and the balance of power in classic MMOs
At the heart of the WoW Classic argument over the dungeon finder tool is the professed belief that LFD ruined socializing in part by...
Former EVE Online CSM member recounts CCP mismanagement during his tenure
What's life like at EVE Online developer CCP Games? To hear one former CSM member's account, it's generally pretty chaotic and poorly managed. A...
Mortal Online 2’s housing system enjoys a renovation
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EVE Online is hiking its sub price to almost $20 – and the price of PLEX is going up too
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"To...
Stick and Rudder: Using No Man’s Sky Outlaws as a way to fill the space sandbox void
Hello Games just keeps on proving itself over and over again. That's been the overall reaction whenever No Man's Sky makes an update from...
EVE Online details the timetable for its next Council of Stellar Management election cycle
The 17th Council of Stellar Management (CSM) for EVE Online is going to be decided, and that means that Capsuleers are looking at another...
