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 Evolved: Three essential tips for new alpha clone players
EVE Online's Ascension expansion goes live in just two days on Tuesday November 15th, introducing the new free-to-play alpha clone state and completely overhauling...
The MOP Up: Gunjack 2 gets a launch date (November 13, 2016)
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...
EVE Online moves toward email verification
Heads up, space jockeys: An additional layer of account security is heading to EVE Online with this month's Ascension expansion.
CCP announced that it is...
Working As Intended: Westworld is a sandbox MMORPG on your TV
Westworld has emerged this fall as the geek obsession TV show, a gunslinger's LOST about which people can't stop talking and theorizing and debating....
H1Z1 lets you put a price on your own head
We have witnessed many bounty systems in many online games, but how many of these have involved putting a price on your own head...
Darkfall: New Dawn holds another free stress test, boasts 10K community members
There is no shortage of good news flowing out of Darkfall: New Dawn this week, so let's get right to it. The team announced...
Perfect Ten: The worst patch naming in MMORPGs
Patches should, in all honesty, be the easiest thing in the world for online games to handle. You have a word that means patch,...
EVE Online demos Ascension features, rolls out EVE Portal mobile app
A week from today, one of the last bastions of the MMORPG subscription model goes free-to-play. I'm talking about EVE Online, of course, and...
One Shots: Postcards from the universe
I am not above indulging in a little universe window shopping now and then. NASA's pictures of the universe might be touched up with...
Massively OP’s guide to upcoming MMORPG expansions
If there is one consistent inconsistency among MMORPG studios, it is that teams keep swinging back and forth on pursuing the expansion model. How...
Gloria Victis outlines animation, character, rep, and settlement plans for November
This week's Gloria Victis patch tweaks crafting material merchants, server performance, combat, and the interface, but the more intriguing announcement from Black Eye Games...
EVE Online players raise $6000 for widow and family of fallen gamer
If you've played MMORPGs long enough -- or played some of the older ones especially -- you've surely met or heard about a fellow...
Cross-platform space MMO Nebula Online has launched today
EVE Online has a little bit of competition in the hardcore kitchen this month, as indie title Nebula Online launched today on iOS, Android,...
EVE Online GMs removed at least 25 trillion ISK worth $400,000 from the game
If you've been reading the gaming news this week, you may have heard about the enormous amount of wealth that was recently removed from EVE...
Check out the trailer for Revelation Online’s first closed beta
My.com has just announced that the Revelation Online closed beta has finally begun, after a week's delay.
"Today players can create characters on the North...
CCP opens EVE Fanfest 2017 ticket sales
With EVE Vegas barely over, CCP Games has already announced that it's opened ticket sales for EVE Fanfest 2017 in Reykjavik, which is set for...
Darkfall: Rise of Agon cuts the grind, makes weapon and racial improvements
Is Rise of Agon the Darkfall you've been dreaming of?
If you were turned off by excessive grind and the pace of leveling of the...
EVE Vegas 2016: EVE Online is finally getting a real tutorial
One of EVE Online's developers once described the new player experience with the line "Welcome to EVE, here's a Rubik's cube, go f**k yourself," and he...
EVE Evolved: Alpha Clone economics, bragging rights, and restrictions
Yesterday at EVE Vegas 2016, developer CCP Rise held us spellbound with tales of his recent misadventures in EVE Online recently when pretending to...
EVE Vegas 2016: Bridging the gap between PvE and PvP
While EVE Online is typically thought of as a cutthroat PvP game, players spend a substantial amount of time engaged in PvE activities such...
