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 Fanfest 2017: EVE Online joins the hunt for exoplanets through Project Discovery
The scientific community has been buzzing lately with the incredible news that a star system less than 40 lightyears away named TRAPPIST-1 was found...
Darkfall: Rise of Agon deploys a major patch with new spawning mushrooms and Champions
The most recent patch to Darkfall: Rise of Agon does a lot of things for spawning. For one thing, it introduces the game's dynamic...
H1Z1 adds more east coast servers, new team follow cam
Here's an unfortunate scenario: You are taking part in an elimination-style match and you have just been killed. What is there to do next?...
EVE Evolved: EVE Online’s moon mining overhaul and the future of conflict
Just under four years ago at EVE Fanfest 2013, EVE Online's Executive Producer Andie Nordgren took the stage and delivered an epic long-term vision for the...
SuperData examines gambling practices across the online gaming industry
Gambling in video games has been a huge topic for devoted MMORPG players over the last year or so, as core MMOs like Guild...
EVE Fanfest will play host to deadly plague this weekend
In a macabre move, EVE Fanfest 2017Â (this coming weekend!) is merging game activity and convention to bring its players in contact with a deadly...
CCP Games says the number of VR units on the market is ‘amazing’
I sure hope you're not tired of CCP Games talking about VR because CCP can't stop won't stop.
The video game studio known best for...
Massively Overthinking: Competition vs. community in MMOs
Quantic Foundry, the games research group we've been tracking ever since it posted its original Gamer Motivation Model, has a new piece out this...
Dean Hall announces Stationeers, yet another new sci-fi sandbox
Remember back when DayZ creator Dean Hall was building ambitious sci-fi full-scale sandbox MMO Ion, inspired by EVE Online and Space Station 13? Remember...
H1Z1: King of the Kill is a game no one likes that’s still on Steam’s top games
Do you like H1Z1: King of the Kill? That's a trick question; just a quick glance at the game's Steam page would reveal that...
EVE Online plans Blood Raider capital ships with dedicated bays for player corpses
Perhaps the most disturbing of the pirate factions in EVE Online's dystopian universe is the Blood Raider Covenant, a radical Amarrian cult who drain the...
The Game Archaeologist: How DikuMUD shaped modern MMOs
Even though there are hundreds and thousands of MMOs spanning several decades, only a small handful were so incredibly influential that they changed the...
H1Z1 makes it easier for you to see what you’re hitting
H1Z1's PvP side is finally getting some much-needed love (sorry, slight dig at Daybreak's preferential treatment of King of the Kill). The devs posted...
CCP’s live-action EVE Online ARG looks like the best thing at this year’s EVE Fanfest
Got your tix for EVE Online's EVE Fanfest 2017? Ready to set aside your in-game enmity and play nice with your fellow gamers for...
The Survivalist: Massively OP’s guide to multiplayer survival sandboxes
Welcome to The Survivalist! Ya'll might have noticed that I have gravitated a bit from my happy home of deep, immersive virtual worlds (possible...
EVE Online’s huge stations will soon mine entire moons
That's no moon, it's a space station... that's mining the innards out of that moon.
It is, of course, one of EVE Online's "upwell structures,"...
EVE Online addresses PLEX overhaul Aurum conversion but not insider trading
Last week, we covered CCP's new plan to change EVE Online's 30-day sub currency, PLEX, by effectively breaking it into smaller chunks and turning...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 109: We are all Dragonborn
Justin and Bree discuss our PAX awards, Guild Wars 2, Wizard101, WoW, LOTRO, DDO, The Repopulation, EverQuest, Eternal Crusade, and Pathfinder, with mailbag questions on Funcom's mystery game and Landmark-like sandboxes.
Castles get an upgrade in Gloria Victis
If players or guilds are going to put the effort in purchasing and building up a castle in Gloria Victis, they are going to...
EVE Evolved: What’s the deal with EVE’s PLEX changes?
This week CCP Games announced that some big changes are on the way for PLEX in EVE Online. The PLEX or "30-day Pilot's License...
