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 is free-to-play until November 15 ahead of its upcoming full release
In a half promotional event, half stress test, low-fantasy PvP sandbox MMORPG Gloria Victis is free-to-play through Monday, November 15th. The free play event...
EVE Online’s latest newbie experience revamp is paying off as CCP Games dabbles in NFTs
EVE Online's latest dev blog has a few teases and backpats in store for denizens of the biggest sci-fi sandbox MMORPG in town. CCP...
Desert Oasis: Unearthing the origin story of Black Desert studio Pearl Abyss
On our side of the pond, the exploits of various popular video game companies and their founding are well documented. But when it comes...
The Daily Grind: Do you support MMOs that you don’t like or play?
Last month when Book of Travels launched, I caught a comment from a MOP reader, Kothoses, who said something that really grabbed me. He...
Pathfinder Online disables all purchasing prior to its closure
Sometimes an MMO shutdown happens faster than you can blink, and sometimes a sunset is a drawn-out affair. Pathfinder Online is taking the latter...
Mortal Online 2’s latest beta patch adds guild wars, adjusts AI, and makes cooked springbok more delicious
Care for some tasty fire-roasted springbok? The pig is less delicious, but the springbok is excellent with the newest beta patch to Mortal Online...
17-year-old World of Warcraft announces a ‘community council’ for diverse player feedback
Player councils in MMORPGs are a pretty old concept, prominent in games like EVE Online, Lord of the Rings Online, and Star Wars Galaxies....
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPGs of all time, 2021 edition
Five years ago this week - back in 2016 - the MOP team and readers did an epic Massively Overthinking picking out their top...
EVE Online celebrates Halloween with extra PvP drops, a new Proving Ground, and the return of Crimson Harvest
There's plenty of things to be scared of in the universe of EVE Online, but things are about to get spookier for the Halloween...
Perfect Ten: Ten MMORPGs you’ve already forgotten about
Not every MMORPG can remain in the spotlight forever. Time has a nasty habit of making us forget titles that used to rile up...
One month away from its sunset, Pathfinder Online is still adding new content
Back in July, we wrote about the impending closure of Pathfinder Online, and now, that closure is almost upon us. At the time, Paizo...
Mortal Online 2 adds new areas to Tindrem and new minotaurs to fight
What do the addition of gardens and minotaurs have in common? They're now in Mortal Online 2 as of the latest patch. These two...
The MOP Up: Stardew Valley creator moves on to haunted chocolate
Reader Jinarra shared with us the news that Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe announced that he's finally moving on to a new project called Haunted...
Vitae Aeternum: Did New World’s morph to full MMORPG hamstring its PvP?
Leading up to New World’s original launch, I had virtually no interest in playing. Even after Amazon Games pulled the ol’ switcheroo and added...
Massively Overthinking: What’s the most painful or memorable bug you ever experienced in an MMO?
Witnessing all the folks upset over losing gear and trades to rollbacks over and over in Diablo II Resurrected made me reflect on some...
EVE Online launches a new event, casts a spotlight on its community, and releases a new tutorial video
Usually you don't celebrate a subsuming alien invasion force in your game's world, but EVE Online is not a usual MMORPG. With that in...
The Daily Grind: How do you protect yourself from scammers in MMORPGs?
As long as there have been MMOs, there have been MMO scams. If you play, then you know. So you're not going to be...
Perfect Ten: A sampler of crowdfunded MMOs and how they’re doing
I've gone on the record many a time as being deeply suspicious of Kickstarter and crowdfunding when it comes to MMOs. There are reasons...
Mortal Online 2’s beta patch adds bear bags for the ursine on the go
Ever since Mortal Online 2 announced its solemn intentions to carve a bloody swath through the gaming space when it launches next January, there...
Massively Overthinking: Initial impressions of New World
Amazon's Queue World - uh, I mean, New World - is finally upon us. In fact, I imagine that it's been hard to avoid...
