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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Mobile MMO EVE Echoes launches the Yoiul Festival for the winter holiday
EVE Echoes joins the chorus of MMORPGs getting a holiday event this month, as NetEase and CCP Games announced today that the Yoiul Festival...
End-of-Year Eleven: The top MMOs to watch in 2022
If 2021 had a problem, it was that we got simply too many MMO releases between new launches, early access, and expansions. This breathtaking...
EVE Online brings its Winter Nexus holiday events back for another year
Space is already cold, but the chill of winter is being felt across EVE Online regardless thanks to the return of the Winter Nexus...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of MassivelyOP’s 2021 predictions
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End-of-year Eleven: The healthiest live MMOs at the end of 2021
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EVE Online’s mining changes go live, include tweaks to mining waste and the delay of compression changes
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One Shots: Bring on Endwalker!
Friends, we are going to need to happily resign ourselves to the fact that we're about to get a flood of FFXIV pictures in...
Mortal Online 2 now lets players build houses, claim keeps, and grow fresh beards in latest update
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EVE Online and Dark Horse team up for ‘Capsuleer Chronicles’ comic miniseries
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End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO surprises of 2021
Why do I love covering MMORPG news year in and year out? If I'm honest about it, I'm usually in this for the surprises....
EVE Online announces the end of DirectX 9 support on January 11
EVE Online is once again making sure it's ready for the hardware future while alerting those who are still living in the hardware past....
Mortal Online 2 goes into early access for a $40 buy-in price
Remember when Mortal Online 2 declared that as a result of how its beta went, the game was not going to be entering into...
EVE Online’s EVE Universe pulls together the lore and history of New Eden into one website
How does cloning work in EVE Online? What about the battles that have raged before? Who the heck are these Amarr folks and why...
EVE Online’s digital EVE Academy offers deeper lessons on ship classes and piloting
You're not going to go too far in EVE Online without a spaceship, and knowing how to pilot a spaceship is a bit more...
EVE Online players stage in-game protests over New Dawn mining changes
At face value, EVE Online's New Dawn quadrant read like a boon for miners with mining changes and resource improvements on tap. However, the...
The MOP Up: Valve’s Steam Deck gets delayed to 2022
Bad news for those among you who were hoping to play some MMOs on Valve's Steam Deck this holiday season: The company announced that...
Massively Overthinking: How hard should MMOs be?
This past summer, MMO dev Damion Schubert posted an epic tweet-thread about MMOs; in fact, we've already dipped into the part on "load-bearing" playerbases,...
Perfect Ten: How MMOs explain away our infinite resurrections
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Choose My Adventure: Avorion affirms that I am not a very good shipwright
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EVE Online’s New Dawn quadrant promises mining updates, more resources, and new exploration sites
Today marks a New Dawn for EVE Online, which is the title of the game's newest quadrant of updates as well as the herald...
