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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The Daily Grind: What major blunders in MMORPG history should future devs study?
A week or so ago, Justin penned another entry in his long-running City of Heroes historical pieces, and down in the comments, a reader...
The MOP Up: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds lets gamers tattle on each other (September 2, 2018)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
EVE Online banned almost 10,000 bots and unauthorized RMT participants this summer
CCP Games has made communicating just how it's "coming for the bots" in EVE Online a priority all year, both before and after players...
Perfect Ten: MMOs with the most needlessly obtuse stats
One of my favorite reviewers of tabletop RPGs at one point opined that percentile systems were one of the best tabletop mechanics possible, simply...
H1Z1 on PlayStation 4 will be getting new Arcade modes and new Daily Challenges
While its original focus of building zombie survival has been separated and ultimately sent to live with a nice farm family upstate, H1Z1 is...
Gloria Victis trims up performance issues while planning for siege weapons and workshops
Performance is both an important part of any online game and also kind of boring to play around with. So it is a very...
Mortal Online sandbox MMO devs try battle royale with Mortal Royale
Trove, Skyforge, and now Mortal Online - it's a weird batch of MMORPGs whose devs are getting into the battle royale scene, but there...
Hyperspace Beacon: Why SWTOR failed EA
Some have called Star Wars: The Old Republic a failure. And if former Lead Designer Daniel Erickson is correct, then EA is one of...
Citizen science for the win: How EVE Online’s playerbase contributed to Human Project Atlas research
Over the last several years, CCP Games has teamed up with different science organizations and put EVE Online players to work with in-game activities...
EVE Online heads into the abyss with its August update today
It's time for EVE Online players to head into the deepest parts of Abyssal Deadspace with the game's latest patch (which you may recall...
The Daily Grind: Should all MMORPGs have EVE-style player councils?
A couple of weeks ago, Worlds Adrift announced that it was rolling up a player council, and I did one of those tilt my...
EVE Evolved: Ship fittings for EVE Online’s Secrets of the Abyss event
EVE Online's recent Into the Abyss expansion has been live now for several months, adding the first ever solo instanced PvE game mode in...
H1Z1 fans are quibbling over whether Jace Hall can really save the game on PC
The 12 million dudes and dudettes playing H1Z1 on PlayStation 4 this summer need to know two things this week. For one, the latest...
EVE Online delays its August release a week, citing the need for ‘additional testing’
If you were hoping to hop into EVE Online with its August release tomorrow, then I'm sorry to tell you that the patch has...
EVE Online overhauls a half-dozen ships and improves the starter experience
You notice how other studios, rather than scrambling away from next Tuesday's World of Warcraft expansion release, seem to be trying to compete with...
Massively Overthinking: Should MMORPGs incentivize exploration – and how?
Our Daily Grind on exploration last week sparked an intriguing follow-up from MOP reader Miol.
"When asking about sightseeing and exploration in MMORPGs, you also...
Jace Hall confirms that he’s H1Z1’s new PC lead, promises the sky
The rumors and hints are true: Monolith's Jace Hall has made the jump over to Daybreak to take on the position as PC lead...
EVE Online disables part of Abyssal Deadspace’s gameplay for testing
Now we are not looking specifically in your direction, but there are rumors that you are such an epic EVE Online player -- so...
H1Z1 has officially launched on the PlayStation 4 as Jace Hall joins the H1Z1 PC team
Daybreak's battle royale game H1Z1 has been through more ups and downs and ups again in the last few years than most games see...
Check out the winningest EVE Online propaganda from CCP’s latest contest
Against the backdrop of yet another massive, hyped-up in-game gang war, EVE Online's propaganda machine is constantly churning, sowing chaos not just for players...
