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 introduces horses and mounted combat in its latest patch
Horsies! Pretty horsies that you can ride into battle! Your little pony fantasies can now come true in Gloria Victis as the latest update...
EVE Online players recount a $5000 ganking and its aftermath on the victim
How would you feel if you saw $5,000 worth of in-game assets blown to smithereens? That was what happened to one EVE Online pilot,...
H1Z1’s seventh season goes live on PS4 and brings back the classic Z2 map
Ready for a new season of doing things in H1Z1? That's good because season seven is officially live on console, bringing with it a...
EVE Online returns to China after a two-year interruption
EVE Online has been given the thumbs-up by the People's Republic of China.
The space sandbox MMORPG originally released in China back in 2006, at...
Interview: Saga of Lucimia on themepark design, SWG inspiration, and the MMO genre
Last week, we ran an interview with Stormhaven Studios' Tim Anderson, the boss behind upcoming MMORPG Saga of Lucimia. That interview was focused on...
EVE Online makes moons prettier and introduces market order changes in its latest update
EVE Online has kicked out another update which has a couple of features that players have likely already been expecting. If you haven't been...
EVE Online shows off visual updates for moons and promises continued regular content patches
EVE Online has posted another episode of its EVE Pulse video series, and while this episode is a bit thin on big reveals, it...
Massively Overthinking: How could MMOs combat endgame rushing?
Rushers, content locusts, world-firsters: Whatever you want to call them, these folks are both a boon and a bane for MMORPGs. They buy the...
EVE Online’s next Skilling Spree event adds a PvP component
The popular Skilling Spree and Chilling Spree events of EVE Online are coming back to the game, but this time there's a PvP-shaped wrinkle...
Perfect Ten: Pet peeves of doing MMO journalism
In many ways, Massively Overpowered is a dream (side) job for us. We get to write about something we love and have it published...
Massively Uplifting: DragonCon announces official charity, more studios support Australian wildfire relief
This past month has been filled with its share of dark news, not the least of which is the coronavirus that is plaguing the...
The Daily Grind: Do old MMOs perform so much better now than at launch that they’re actually easier?
MMO blogger Wilhelm of The Ancient Gaming Noob fame recently posed us a question about old vs. new MMOs. "Our WoW Classic group has been...
CCP Games just canceled April’s EVE Fanfest over coronavirus concerns
Yesterday, we wrote about ongoing discussions in the EVE Online community about the safety and wisdom in attending EVE Fanfest, then set to run...
EVE Online tours offices as fans debate potential coronavirus impact on Fanfest
MMO players will recall that all throughout 2019, EVE Online studio CCP Games changed up its usual Fanfest in Reykjavik, Iceland, opting instead to...
New World may consider bringing back gankbox elements, talks up its uniqueness
Amazon Game Studios did an interview with IGN this week about New World that's part puzzler, part eyebrow-raiser, part declaration of war.
First, remember how...
EVE Echoes has been ‘hindered’ by the coronavirus but will launch in ‘late 2020’
With CCP Games seemingly trying to sneak game cancelations under the radar, you might be wondering what's going on with EVE Echoes. The EVE...
EVE Online shares its economic report for January 2020 and hands out skill points for DDoS issues
For the more industrious EVE Online player, there's no greater moment than the monthly economic report. Well, it's that wonderful time of the month...
Jukebox Heroes: Ten MMOs that strongly support their soundtracks
It's one thing to put a lot of music in your MMORPG or even to release that launch-day album. It's another thing entirely to...
EVE Online is adding a frigate bay to every battleship in the game
The cardinal rule of EVE Online is to not fly what you can't afford to lose. That said, bad things just happen and suddenly...
Perfect Ten: Dead MMOs resurrected via rogue servers
Last December, the Massively OP 2019 Awards gave its "Best Trend" nod to the rise of rogue servers in the MMO genre. Preservation of...
