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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‘One of the largest PvP battles ever to occur in video game history’ just happened in EVE Online
The biggest clash this week might not have been on the debate stage but rather in a video game. Over 8,806 EVE Online pilots...
EVE Online tests feature to deprioritize 3-D visuals for ‘extreme situations’
The oft-repeated lancing of EVE Online as "spreadsheets in space" (which is really more like "too many UI elements in space" in my personal...
The MOP Up: FFXIV blasts out its first remix album
Final Fantasy XIV's soundtrack is downright legendary -- and now it's gotten even better, thanks to the game's first "remix" album that was just...
Mortal Online 2 adds new races and a host of other adjustments in its latest combat alpha patch
The combat alpha testing for Mortal Online 2 continues to move forward as the most recent patch has made several additions, most notably the...
EVE Online talks about recent updates, SKIN bundles, and a relaxed banning policy in a video
EVE Online has put out yet another Pulse video newsletter, scooping together the most recent updates to the spaceship sandbox in one condensed bite...
The Game Archaeologist: The short ride of Auto Assault
When you think of post-apocalyptic video games, what comes to mind? Most likely it's a crawl through a bombed-out or zombiefied landscape as you...
EVE Online’s unpopular ‘resource distribution’ plan, plus the messy 49u battle and Japanese localization
Earlier today, EVE Online studio CCP Games released a dev blog on the next leg of its resource distribution plan. The studio aims to...
Massively Overthinking: MMO voids that haven’t been filled
I swear, so many of the posts I bookmark on Reddit to muse on later wind up deleted, and today I've got another one,...
EVE Online players submitted over 41M classifications to fight COVID for CCP’s latest Project Discovery initiative
What's better than a science MMO story or a feel-good MMO story? One that's both. And this one is both, as EVE Online and...
EVE Online’s Rolling Thunder update arrives today
There's nothing worse than spending all sorts of time and resources to acquire something you think will be cool... but turns out to be...
Crowfall says its new Shadowbane-inspired class design will create an ‘explosion’ of build possibilities
Yesterday, several members of the Crowfall dev team sat for an AMA with DownToQuest Twitch, and while the whole broadcast isn't up for non-subscribers...
EVE Online’s Depths of the Abyss is live as CCP updates policies and World War Bee 2 endures
EVE Online has lots going on this week, from patches to policies to drama. Let's dig in: First, this week's patch, Depths of the...
The MOP Up: Overhit sunsets in Korea
Nexon's Overhit is fading quickly from the mobile MMO scene. Its global servers were shut down earlier this year, leaving only the Korean and...
Mortal Online 2 scales up testing, aims for a beta later this year
After months running a combat alpha, Mortal Online 2 is ramping up the scope and population of its testing. In this month's newsletter, Star...
MMO Business Roundup: Guild Wars 2 voice acting, EVE Online mental health, Good Game, and more
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO - and MMO-adjacent - industry news!
Guild Wars 2: If you've been bummed about Guild Wars 2's pandemic-times...
EVE Online raises prices on Steam, plans to expand its Abyssal Deadspace system
CCP Games and Pearl Abyss are making some tweaks to EVE Online's business model with price increases to some of the game's bundles on...
EVE Online rolls out the first phase of quantum cores with today’s patch
Structures in EVE Online should not be haphazardly deployed as bait for confusion. That's the basic idea behind the addition of quantum cores, putting more...
Casual space sandbox CSC aka Crypto Space Commander launches on Steam with a dash of Star Trek
If you yearn for the stars yet are put off by the complexity and coldness of games like Star Citizen and EVE Online, you...
Massively Overthinking: The MMOs we intentionally avoid
A few weeks back, I read a Twitter thread about people who avoid specific games and types of games, and the folks chiming in...
CCP Games CEO Hilmar Petursson wants the company to expand further into mobile gaming and new regions
You don't get too far in business without having aspirations, I suppose, and CCP Games CEO Hilmar Petursson is certainly not lacking for those...
