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’s Onslaught expansion is live with new content for PvE and PvP alike
EVE Online's Onslaught expansion is officially live this morning, with "a little bit of something for everyone" as MOP's own Brendan Drain put it....
The Daily Grind: What one piece of advice would you give to new MMO players in 2018?
Over the weekend, CCP tweeted out a fun poll asking EVE Online players what advice they'd like to deliver to newbies: Insure your ship,...
EVE Evolved: Making the most of EVE Online’s Onslaught expansion
EVE Online's Onslaught expansion goes live in just a few days on November 13th, and it looks like it has a little bit of...
EVE Online details Onslaught’s new Abyssal Deadspace content and activity tracker feature
Earlier this week, CCP Games announced that EVE Online's winter update, Onslaught, will be going live on November 13th, bringing with it a slew...
EVE Online’s winter Onslaught update will go live on November 13
Prepare yourself, capsuleers: CCP Games announced this week that EVE Online's winter expansion, Onslaught, will be going live next Tuesday, November 13th, bringing with it...
Working As Intended: The gamification of the workification of games
Last weekend, my husband made the bold choice to let our young son play The Stanley Parable. I am not entirely sure the kid...
Darkfall: Rise of Agon details plans for Embers of War expansion and upcoming Territory Control system
Earlier this week, Big Picture Games announced Embers of War, the first expansion for Darkfall: Rise of Agon, and the latest dev blog details...
How Legends of Aria is avoiding the ‘gankbox’ MMO problem
Player freedom in sandbox games is always a tricky balancing act, and developers often have to walk a very fine line to prevent their...
Perfect Ten: Compliments to MMOs I don’t play
Back in September, Bree posed a Daily Grind question that I thought was genuinely intriguing. You know, for once. Just kidding, Bree! She asked...
Gloria Victis update expands crafting system, adds Halloween event content
The folks at Black Eye Games recently released the latest update for their medieval sandbox Gloria Victis, and according to the patch notes, it's...
New World leaks make it sound more and more like a real MMO sandbox, not a survival game
The weird thing - or clever thing - about Amazon Game Studios' New World alpha is that seemingly everyone is in it, so nobody...
EVE Evolved: Hands-on with EVE Online FPS Project Nova
Cast your mind back to 2011 and you'll probably remember the insane hype that was building for DUST 514, CCP Games' ambitious console MMOFPS...
Darkfall Rise of Agon’s latest patch makes some combat tweaks, fixes bugs
The latest patch for Big Picture Games's PvP-centric sandbox Darkfall: Rise of Agon was a relatively small one, but it brought with it some...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 193: EVE Vegas special
Justin and Brendan recap EVE Vegas, with expert news on EVE Online's upcoming content, EVE Echoes, and Project Nova. (Special edition episode.)
Vague Patch Notes: There’s more to Skinner boxes in MMOs than mere repetition
As I started watching the latest World of Warcraft video to whip people into a furor, I very nearly turned the thing off as...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 192: Tricks and treats
MJ, Justin, and Bree discuss Trion's acquisition, Aion's Awakened Legacy, MMO Halloween, Black Desert's Russian un-fiasco, SWTOR, MapleStory 2, and ZeniMax's new maybe-MMO.
Daybreak confirms that ex-H1Z1 sandbox Just Survive is still sunsetting tomorrow
It looks like Just Survive's sunset is really happening.
Back in August, Daybreak announced that it was sunsetting the sandboxier zombie survival half of the...
An EVE Online player used his Homeland Security contacts to save EVE Vegas 2018
In what sounds like the plot of a movie, this weekend's EVE Vegas 2018 event in Las Vegas almost fell apart at the last...
EVE Vegas 2018: Project Nova pre-alpha is playable with alpha signups open now
Two years ago at EVE Fanfest 2016, CCP Games showed off a demo of a new first-person shooter codenamed Project Nova that rose from...
EVE Vegas 2018: Player-built stargates and co-op Abyssal Deadspace coming to EVE Online this winter
CCP Games delved into detail on this winter's upcoming EVE Online expansion this weekend at EVE Vegas 2018, and it sounds like it will...
