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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The Steam spring sale is upon us with deals on MMOs from New World Aeternum to Pantheon
Is it actually spring? No. But do you actually need an excuse for a Steam sale? Also no! But that's exactly what we got...
EVE Online brings changes to ships, manufacturing, mining, and missions in its latest update
Today marks the release of the latest "major" patch for EVE Online, which introduces some changes for certain ship manufacturing, faction warfare missions, mining...
EVE Online details adjustments coming to ship fast travel in March 12’s Revenant update
CCP Rattati would like to talk to EVE Online players about adjustments coming to internet spaceship fast travel from his backyard while someone nearby...
EVE Online elaborates on planned tweaks to mining as Fanfest tickets have officially sold out
To hear it from CCP Games itself - and likely from its playerbase - mining in EVE Online isn't in a really good place...
Star Citizen discusses its latest narrative twist and what it means for alpha 4.0.2’s story missions
"This was a false flag operation," say the narrative team members of Star Citizen, "and you fell for it." And they're doing it with...
The Daily Grind: Does EVE Online need an EVE Classic version?
We've asked many times in the past about MMOs that could use a classic version, and we often get the same responses. Guild Wars...
CipSoft’s PvPvE zombie shooter MMO Persist Online has ‘all core mechanics now implemented’ as it plots its testing course
Last year we heard about Tibia developer CipSoft entering the PvPvE sub-genre with Persist Online, which the studio classed as "a true, old-school MMORPG...
Epic successfully sued a Fortnite cheater – and forced him to post a public apology video
Ten years ago, then-Daybreak-president John Smedley created some fun MMO drama when he went on Twitter and ranted his heart out over the nearly...
Sea of Thieves Season 15 launches with new monster sharks and expansion of the Hunter’s Call faction
You would be forgiven for believing that you've got a big enough boat to hunt any ol' shark in Sea of Thieves, but then...
Sea of Thieves will break up seasonal content releases in the interest of game stability
Regular players of Sea of Thieves know that the release of Season 14 this past October was a pretty rough one indeed, with multiple...
Perfect Ten: MMOs with the very best soundtracks
I've long had an affection for video game music and feel content to live in an age where I can actually obtain it and...
The MOP Up: Elder Scrolls Online gets vicious with Whitestrake’s Mayhem
Elder Scrolls Online is keeping things spicy with the return of Whitestrake's Mayhem for the remainder of the month. Grab new and returning rewards...
EVE Online talks up recent updates to its internet spaceship user experience
EVE Online, at a brass tacks and arguably reductive level, is a PvP gankbox where internet spaceships are thrown at one another because massive...
Sea of Thieves releases videos for Season 15: Wild Things and its upcoming new megalodon variants
Forget Shark Week; February will be Shark Month in the Sea of Thieves when Season 15 arrives on February 20th, bringing with it two...
Pearl Abyss Q4 2024: PA is obscuring EVE Online and Black Desert revenues in its best quarter all year
Pearl Abyss ended its 2024 financial year on a high-ish note - a welcome surprise after a year of muddling-through - but also a...
EG7 Q3 2024: Palia hits console this spring as EverQuest, LOTRO drive Daybreak revenue
EG7 - that's the Swedish games conglom that bought up Daybreak and then kinda got taken over by Daybreak, amusingly - released its year-end...
Sea of Thieves readies a new event and souped-up new shark beasts for February
Are you ready for a February full of ghost foes and jacked-up megalodons? If not then you'd better be because Sea of Thieves is...
Pantheon’s Visionary Realms is investigating after players accuse a dev of enriching his guild
We've updated the end of this story with Visionary Realm's investigatory conclusion; in short, it does not believe the dev was guilty but has...
EVE Online preps showcases for chat updates, ship highlights, and better skinning and API tools this month
If you're looking at the words "EVE Evolved" and thinking they sound familiar, that's because the phrase has been the name of MOP's Brendan...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 504: The legacy MMO devs leave behind
Justin and Bree remember Project Gorgon's Sandra Powers, with discussion on EVE Online's roadmap, World of Warcraft's Undermine(d), No Man's Sky's and Worlds II, plus adventures in LOTRO, Project Gorgon, WoW Classic, and The Sims 4, and of course mailbag topics on removing and adding things to MMOs to make them better and identifying the major features MMOs just won't do.
