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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EVE Online catches players up on new tutorials, UI changes, and EVE Invasion
EVE Online is a bit late in kicking this video out, but if you happened to not be watching EVE Vegas this year,...
H1Z1’s sixth season features paltry rewards and no actual patch features
Remember when Daybreak changed H1Z1's name yet again, presumably to distance the title's console version from the already floundering PC version (also known as Z1 Battle...
EVE Online is officially live in South Korea
For far too long, the only way for residents of South Korea to experience the loop of mining for minerals to support pointless military...
EVE Online’s newest patch improves new player tutorials and balance tweaks
Looting stuff feels like it should be kind of self-explanatory, doesn't it? But when you're floating out in the cold darkness of space like...
EVE Online will officially arrive to Korea on November 14
Remember back in April when CCP Games CEO Hilmar Petersson said that the Korean and Chinese playerbase of EVE Online was due to expand...
Pearl Abyss announces three new MMOs: Crimson Desert, Plan 8, and DokeV
Well, it may have been a little bit spoilered by leaks around the internet, but it's official now: Pearl Abyss has just formally announced...
EVE Online is getting the Twitch Plays treatment, and you can join in right now
You folks remember a years back when when Twitch Plays Pokemon blew up, right? It originally started out as a social experiment, allowing Twitch...
Gloria Victis brings freebuilding to guild castles in the latest update
Nothing instills a sense of pride quite like having your own place in the world of an MMO, whether it's an individual housing plot...
Steam’s brief Halloween sale grants deals on Elite, Black Desert, and more MMOs
It might not be the absolute biggest sale of the year, but Steam's Halloween bash has quite a few surprisingly good deals for the...
EVE Vegas 2019: EVE Online’s Invasion expansion chapter 2 arrives November 26
More features and more Triglavians are coming to EVE Online with the release of Invasion: Chapter 2, the... uhm... second chapter of the Invasion...
EVE Online brings out its Halloween horrors for the spooky season
It's time for EVE Online to get spooky. You may wonder how scary a game can really make itself when being blown up for no reason...
EVE Vegas 2019: CCP and Hadean announce a third EVE Aether Wars event for November
Ahead of EVE Vegas today, CCP Games has announced a third go-round of EVE Aether Wars. Gamers will recall that's the tech partnership with...
EVE Online’s NetEase-backed mobile EVE Echoes enters beta in December
EVE Online mobile MMO EVE Echoes is swooping past its summer alpha into a winter beta, according to an announcement from CCP Games and NetEase...
The Daily Grind: What are the odds that Daybreak can turn itself around?
I've had... severe concerns about Daybreak Games over the last several years, and I'm sure that I am not alone in this. The multiple...
Jukebox Heroes: Exploring World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth’s patch music
One of my favorite modern trends of MMORPGs is that studios are no longer saving the entirety of a soundtrack for the base game or expansion releases. Oh sure, those usually get a great album push -- especially if it's one of the bigger games -- but for a while now, many studios have also been releasing new music on a steady basis with significant content patches.
EVE Evolved: Chatting up EVE Online world record holder Ethan ‘Katia Sae’ Richards
EVE Online player Ethan Richards is best known by the name of his in-game character Katia Sae, who earlier this year completed an incredible...
The MOP Up: Star Trek Online’s thorny patrol
Cryptic is really hot to trot with Star Trek Online's new patrol system, and this past week the studio highlighted the third new one:...
Daybreak confirms yesterday’s layoffs and ‘realignment of the company into separate franchise teams’
Yesterday, we reported on the sad news that MMORPG company Daybreak Games had suffered yet another round of layoffs. As developers began weighing in...
It looks like Daybreak’s been hit with yet another round of layoffs
Former H1Z1 Technical Director and PlanetSide Arena dev Josh "Autenil" Kriegshauser posted a tweet this evening suggesting that Daybreak has once again undergone layoffs.
"Sorry...
Mortal Online opens up a new starting zone for players with today’s Haven update
The word "haven" means a lot of things, but almost all of them relate to a feeling of safety. In a game like Mortal...
