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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The Stream Team: Checking out Mortal Online 2’s beta stress test (plus some extra keys!)
Have you been curious about Mortal Online 2? Are you interested in taking a sneak peek? Massively OP's MJ is on both counts --...
Grab a Mortal Online 2 key for this weekend’s beta stress test! [Added more keys 3/26/21]
So, who wants to play some Mortal Online 2 beta this weekend? Yep, the folks behind MMO sandbox Mortal Online have been working on...
Former Daybreak and H1Z1 vets Anthony Castoro and Jace Hall raise $9M for a ‘genre-defining metaverse’
The last time we heard the name Jace Hall, it was just about two years ago, when the version of H1Z1 esports he was...
Daybreak’s Z1 Battle Royale is enjoying another renaissance
Remember last year when Z1 Battle Royale -- the retitled version of H1Z1 that Daybreak still appears to operate -- saw an astonishing increase...
Darkfall: Rise of Agon introduces buff-granting Obelisks in its latest update
Ready for a bit of capture the flag in Darkfall: Rise of Agon? No, it's not a separate game mode, but the Dayar update...
EVE Online’s upcoming March 23 patch adjusts Jump Clone installation, Burst Jammers, and wormholes
If we're judging by the contents and the literal title of EVE Online's next update, there's some quality-of-life improvements coming to the internet spaceship...
EVE Online begins open beta testing of its browser-based EVE Anywhere client
If you're eager to play EVE Online somewhere you probably shouldn't be, you just want to keep appraised of goings on in New Eden,...
EVE Online introduces new landmarks, spaceship racing, and an Abyssal Proving Ground event
On your marks, get set, tap in the coordinates of a location into your nav computer, spool up the warp drives, and go! Admittedly,...
MMO Business Roundup: Germany, lockboxes, Distintegration, and CCP vs. the bots
Welcome back to another quick rundown of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news.
German lockboxes: We've gone through two full cycles of lockbox backlash in the...
EVE Online begins advertising Skill Point pack sales as CCP Games addresses monetization
If you're an EVE Online player that's nervous about in-game store items like the Expert System consumable, then you really might be shaken by...
MMO Business Roundup: Apple’s Steam subpoena, CCP on the cheap, and Valheim’s 4M
Welcome back to yet another MMO and MMO-adjacent business news roundup - it's the season for these shenanigans, you know.
Valve and Apple: Remember earlier...
Pathfinder Online puts up 10 new land plots for auction
Owning a chunk of land in Pathfinder Online is a big deal, considering how much weight that territory control has in the online RPG....
EVE Online’s new ‘expert systems’ are, uh, not winning over the community
EVE Online has some... interesting news updates to share this week, starting off with Tuesday's release of the Bastions of War update, which has...
Perfect Ten: MMOs of the ‘internet spaceships’ genre
It's at once the most important and most underserved genre in MMOs, aside from gigantic robots - it's the valuable genre of internet spaceships. They're...
Choose My Adventure: In search of RvR in WAR Return of Reckoning; first steps in Darkfall Rise of Agon
The Warhammer Online: Return of Reckoning has effectively transformed into me doing two games at once for Choose My Adventure. Let me explain.
First, I...
Pearl Abyss Q4 2020: An overall drop in profits and revenue but a revenue rise on PC
The quarterly earnings report from Pearl Abyss is now available to peruse for armchair fiscal analysis types to chew over, and in the fourth...
Mortal Online 2’s latest update adds more gore and the Myrland Jungle
When you take down an enemy in Mortal Online 2, you want to be sure it's dead, and there's no surer way that's the...
EVE Online will add fleet formations and Marauder adjustments in upcoming updates
There's more coming to EVE Online now that the Reign quadrant is well underway. Specifically, a couple of updates that have been previewed that...
Interview: Crowfall is ‘very close’ to launch, plus more details on 6.400 Transformation
This week has brought another massive update to Kickstarted MMORPG Crowfall: ArtCraft describes Update 6.400 aka Transformation as a "major balance pass of combat,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 309: You can take my loot over my dead body
Justin and Bree discuss Valheim, Elite Dangerous' slave cult, BlizzConline, Hearthstone, WoW's valor, Neverwinter Nights Arelith, Phantasy Star Online 2, Black Desert, and Shadowbane, with adventures in LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, SWG Legends, and Farm Together, with mailbag topics on full-loot open world PvP and brute-forcing unpopular gameplay design.
