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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Jack Emmert isn’t sure Daybreak will publish his next MMO, says DCUO is as big as it was four years ago
In January, Daybreak finally announced the fruits of its "realignment" that we'd been covering since last summer: It was splitting off new substudios for...
CCP confirms the death of Project Nova, will keep future games quiet until closer to ready
Yesterday, as part of our coverage of Pearl Abyss' Q4 2019 financial report, we broke the sad news that CCP Games' Project Nova had...
EVE Online discusses DDoS attacks, Plex for Good, the Guardian’s Gala, and more in a video
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Never let it be said that games can't make a difference.
One EVE Online player, struck by the tragedy of the Australian bushfires, put an...
The Survivalist: So Funcom’s DUNE will be a survival game, not an MMO
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EVE Online player makes a 1 million PLEX bid for charity
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EVE Online spools up the hype for EVE Fanfest 2020
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