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 players own over a quadrillion ISK
EVE Online is often joked about as being "spreadsheets in space," but that doesn't exclude bar charts and other types of graphs in participating...
Massively Overthinking: MMO monetization run amok
Over the last couple of weeks, the monetization of unreleased games has become a pervasive and uncomfortable theme for the MMO genre. Just in...
Mortal Online breaks ground on modular housing patch
After months of anticipation and previews, Mortal Online's much-hyped modular housing update is finally here. Patch 1.86 adds the ability to create and decorate...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs that died too soon
Your favorite game is going to die. I wrote about that. Some games are never even going to get to launching in the first...
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EVE Online celebrates CCP’s 20th anniversary with sale and pep talk
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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...
