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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E3 2018: Hands-on with Ubisoft’s open-world pirate PvP game Skull & Bones
So, you want to be a pirate, but Sea of Thieves isn't your cup of tea? If the issue was PvP, well, you're probably out of...
Gloria Victis gives players a real reason to cook and eat food with this week’s update
Who's hungry? Not Gloria Victis characters - if they know what's good for them, anyway. That's because the game's most recent update introduces a...
Darkfall: New Dawn puts the finishing touches on its magic schools
Fun fact: Did you know that Darkfall: New Dawn has a skill called "eye rot?" Isn't that all you will be thinking about for...
Star Citizen and EVE Online players unite to call out lookalike concept ship
Fancy staring at some pixel spaceships this morning to weigh in on the latest Star Citizen drama? 'Course you do. The ship on display...
EVE Evolved: The expert Gila’s guide to Abyssal Deadspace in EVE Online
EVE Online's new Into The Abyss expansion launched less than two weeks ago and I'm bloody obsessed with it! Players have had great success...
EVE Online player disqualified from CSM elections due to racist comments
They say that the internet never forgets, so if you are planning to run for a player council in a popular online game, you...
The MOP Up: The Black Death improves its profession system (June 10, 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...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG vet reward you’ve ever gotten?
CCP Games rolled out a pretty sweet veteran reward for EVE Online vets this week ahead of the game's anniversary: Everybody who's been playing...
The Survivalist: Eight ways to give Just Survive a fighting chance
Do you remember at the beginning of May when Just Survive was talking about "working on a plan to go forward"? I understand if...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 173: The Bless Mess
Justin and Bree discuss Bless Online's launch, EVE Online's Into the Abyss, Fallout 76, Elder Scrolls Online's spyware issue, Path of Exile's Incursion, H1Z1, Star Trek Online, Trove, DDO, and UO, with mailbag questions on the Bless Mess and on open-world immersion.
H1Z1 discusses the imminent return of the Z1 map and Auto Royale
The past is just practice. Accurate? Not always. But it seems to cover the current plans for future development for H1Z1, which is eagerly...
CCP Games announces EVE Online mobile game called Project Galaxy
CCP has just announced a brand-new mobile MMO, being built in conjunction with NetEase. It's called Project Galaxy, and yes, it's intended as the...
Get caught up on the Darkfall spinoffs as ex-Aventurine devs explain what happened to the original (and throw shade)
Unless you're a hardcore Darkfall player from way back in the day as MOP's Andrew was, you probably look at the sequels and spinoffs...
The MOP Up: Fractured Lands has fun in the apocalypse (June 3, 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...
Jukebox Heroes: Six musical themes for upcoming MMORPGs
Usually in Jukebox Heroes I'm looking back at current and sunsetted MMORPGs, but this week I thought I'd change things up a bit by...
Trace the history of the battle royale genre from inception to now
It all started with a new mode for DayZ. No, it all started with Minecraft. Wait, maybe it started with deathmatch games. There's a...
Gloria Victis has overhauled its arena and large-scale factional PvP
Grumpy about the state of PvP in that other MMO? Gloria Victis has arrived to bolster its own version of the classic MMO competitive...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 172: Delays and do-overs
Justin and Bree discuss WoW, Dauntless, Trove, H1Z1, Bless, RuneScape, Echo of Soul, Wargaming, FFXIV, hyper-realism, wacky MMO jobs, and Solo (but no spoilers!)
EVE Online dives ‘Into the Abyss’ with today’s update
Ready to dive into a new style of PvE gameplay in EVE Online? Today's patch for the Into the Abyss update sends players into...
H1Z1 zooms past 4.5 million downloads on PlayStation 4 and hands out free weapons
Remember how H1Z1 was riding high last Thursday off of the 1.5 million downloads on the PlayStation 4? The battle royale game has actually...
