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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Amazon Game Studios grabs H1Z1’s art director
Amazon Game Studios continues to lure talented developers away for its new multiplayer projects. Sebastian Strzalkowski became the latest to defect to the new...
Gloria Victis adds new things to fight over in its new map spaces
There are a lot of new lands in Gloria Victis, but what use are new lands if there's nothing to fight over? You'd have...
Massively Overthinking: 2017’s MMORPG zeitgeist
This time last year, I polled the Massively OP writers for their opinions on which MMOs had had the best year, or half year,...
EVE Online’s space police get iPod makeover, patch coming June 13
Coming June 13th to a New Eden near you is an early summer patch for EVE Online. The space MMO is getting several ship...
Ashes of Creation hires five new team members, shows off snowy environments
As Ashes of Creation takes aim at the $3M line for its Kickstarter campaign, Intrepid Studios announced that it has made several significant hires...
Black Desert sells over 127,000 copies on Steam, adds three new servers with today’s patch
The first MMO hit of the summer is already upon us, as Black Desert's debut on Steam has paid off in dividends. Thanks to...
EVE Evolved: War declarations need revamped for the citadel era
It's a universally accepted fact in EVE Online that you're never truly safe from attack. Low-security space is littered with pirates looking for an...
The Game Archaeologist: How Sceptre of Goth shaped the MMO industry
When it comes to text-based MMOs created in the '80s, '90s, and 2000s, the sheer number of them would blot out the sky. There...
Gloria Victis massively increases the size of the world
It's a great big world out there, full of opportunities for adventure. It's also a great big world in Gloria Victis, made even bigger...
EVE Online prepares players for summer cruiser rebalance
Ahoy space captains! EVE Online is working to get the word out about a "significant" rebalance patch for the game's strategic cruiser line that's...
EVE Online scam highlights the value of friendships over ISK
If you've ever studied the psychology of con men and abusers, you know that one of the ways they get people to trust them...
EVE Online is adding smaller skill injectors for newer players
The changes to PLEX for EVE Online make it easier to buy small chunks, sell small chunks, and not have all of it get...
EVE Online introduces colorblindness accessibility options
A couple of years ago, my husband was taking one of those online tests to determine color blindness and pulled me over to read...
The MOP Up: Neverwinter’s green beetle fiasco (May 21, 2017)
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...
APB Reloaded brainstorms a ‘gangland survival mode’
See if you can follow the chain of progression here. In APB Reloaded's most recent dev diary, the team says that it's about done...
Massively Overthinking: Being Uncle Owen in MMORPGs
Ever since the tone-deaf SOE proclamation that nobody wanted to play Uncle Owen in an MMORPG, contrary me has consciously fought that very stupid...
H1Z1: King of the Kill’s latest update makes combat less painful
H1Z1: King of the Kill has gotten lots of love from Daybreak this week with the release of a brand-new update as teased last...
EVE Online players blow up a $6,000 spaceship
Ever have the dark desire to see $6,000 get obliterated right before your very eyes?
A coordinated team of EVE Online players baited a Vanquisher...
EVE Evolved: Is EVE Online becoming too safe?
EVE Online is often painted as a harsh universe without rules where you could have your entire net worth destroyed or swiped right from under...
The MOP Up: Life is Feudal’s building sim (May 14, 2017)
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...
