gankbox

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.

Dual Universe counts 30,000 simulated players on the same planet in its latest alpha

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If you're gonna be an MMO, we wanna see massive: lots of people on a server, lots of people in a fight. Dual Universe...
Money talks, but what it says isn't engaging sometimes.

EVE Online gets ready for a galaxy-wide capital ship nerf

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Don't let words like "balance" and "improvements" blind you from the real truth here: EVE Online's capital ships are about to be hit by...
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H1Z1’s PC version, Z1 Battle Royale, sees another leadership reshuffle as Jace Hall steps down

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Yesterday, Daybreak and NantGMobile announced that Jace Hall is no longer consulting on the PC version of H1Z1 known as Z1 Battle Royale, having...
I demand this skill.

EVE Online’s March update is here with skills on demand and nullsec anomaly improvements

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The fact is that EVE Online's whole "skills on demand" concept is slightly misleading. It's more like the ability to purchase the skills you want...
Sure, why not.

EVE Online is heading to South Korea later this year

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Hands up if you prognosticated this shocking development following Pearl Abyss' acquisition of CCP last fall: EVE Online is now coming to South Korea. "We're...

Z1 Battle Royale declares the return of the king with a massive new update

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Season 3 of Daybreak's PC H1Z1 (or Z1 Battle Royale now, or Z1BR for you hip kids) is coming back in a big way....
MOVE.

Albion Online sets a date for Oberon, its next content blast: March 20

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Albion Online's next big thing has a name and a date: Oberon and March 20th. This round up content updates includes a full rebalance...

Watch the rise and fall of the most popular Steam games of the last four years

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For those of us who are visual learners (or heck, bar chart fanatics - and you know who you are), there's an interesting animated gif...
Sure, explosions are great, but have you ever looked at graphs.

EVE Online and CCP Games are losing another key developer: CCP Guard

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EVE Online is losing a key dev today as Senior Community Development Lead Sveinn "CCP Guard" Kjarval announced his departure from CCP Games. "After sixteen...
It goes clicky.

Global Chat: Off-the-cuff impressions of Anthem

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If you like BioWare, high tech eye candy, blowing crap up, or riding the current wave of Hot New Game Releases, chances are that...

The MMO Bookclub devotes March to Tibia, Destiny 2, and Apex Legends

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If you haven't been hanging out with the folks at MMO Bookclub lately, you may have missed a shift in the format that's expanded...
If you can't stand up, you can't do war.

EVE Online lays out a roadmap for war declaration changes and teases 64-bit client

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The first pass of changes has already been made for EVE Online's war declaration system, and the current results have been positive thus far according...

Jagex picks up EVE Online vet Nathan Richardsson, is still working on multiple secret MMOs

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If you've been reading Massively OP for a while, you're not going to be surprised whatsoever to once again hear the news that Jagex...
The most positive statement about anything Daybreak-related I am likely to make all year.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 209: ArenaNet layoffs, Blizzard layoffs, and PlanetSide Arena delays

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Justin and Bree discuss the Guild Wars 2 layoffs, Blizzard layoffs, PlanetSide Arena's delay, WoW's allied races, and LOTRO's expansion, with adventures in DDO, SWGL, and Trove, and mailbag letters on ethical studios, ancient MMOs, and Project Titan.
I demand more skills for this.

EVE Online shifts its skill system to provide skills on demand

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There's a persistent issue with the skill system in EVE Online insofar as the system requires buying skills off the market in order to train...
oh nooooo

H1Z1 patches in quick fixes for its mammoth Season 3 update on PlayStation 4

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Adding a whole lot of stuff to a game in a patch can also break things. It's not intentional, but it's inevitable. H1Z1 had...

Darkfall Rise of Agon has officially soft-launched its hybrid free-to-play ‘freemium’ model

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Remember back when free-to-play was still a pretty rare thing, and we used to run polls on which MMOs would go free-to-play next? And...
Weepy weep weep.

Perfect Ten: The bloodiest MMOs of all time

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I am not nor ever have been that much of a fan of gore and blood in video games. Oh, I thought Doom was...
This guy, dudes.

Kotaku exposes the creeps of game streaming, plus the update on Elvine you didn’t want

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At the beginning of the month, we were all horrified to cover the news that a Twitch streamer and (now former) Hi-Rez employee, Thomas...

EVE Online changes F2P mission access to combat bots and releases its first economic report of 2019

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There's been an unfortunate increase of RMT activity in New Eden recently, and in the delicate balancing act that is the in-game economy of...

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