Sandboxes are a type of MMO that emphasize player freedom and expression. They frequently include mechanics for building, crafting, trading, character customization and development, roleplaying, destruction, and significant interaction with the world and other players. A sandbox that is dominated by an open-PvP or free-for-all ruleset is sometimes pejoratively called a gankbox. Contrast with the themepark.
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PlanetSide 2 brings the Nanite of the Living Dead event back for more spooky shooting
Fans of PlanetSide 2 probably had lots of reason to be scared following the latest round of Daybreak layoffs on Friday, and not in the...
Black Desert preps Halloween and Great Expedition on PC, awakens the Tamer on Xbox One
Black Desert Online's PC version is busy prepping its boat for the Great Expedition update coming next week, but in the meantime, there's Halloween...
ArcheAge Unchained delays Steam, beholds mighty queues during launch rollout
Gamigo's touting it as a "successful launch," but ArcheAge Unchained's slow rollout yesterday was more like a typical MMO launch, beset by queues, crashes,...
The Stream Team: Launching into ArcheAge Unchained
ArcheAge just celebrated its fifth birthday (with an insane jumping puzzle!), but now a new AA is being born. As of today, ArcheAge Unchained...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 242: And then Blizzard said, ‘Hold my beer’
Justin, Bree, and Eliot discuss the Blizzard boytcott and fiasco, the Daybreak layoffs, Shroud of the Avatar's sell-off, the Guild Wars 2 hacker piece, and a few happier stories too.
Flameseeker Chronicles: Is it time for Guild Wars 3?
Earlier this month, ArenaNet announced that President Mike O’Brien, former game director on both the original Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2, was leaving...
Buy-to-play ArcheAge Unchained is officially live today with the Shadows Revealed update
Back in August, Gamigo stunned the MMORPG genre by announcing a do-over for 2014 Korean MMORPG ArcheAge called ArcheAge Unchained: It's a buy-to-play, sub-free...
The Daily Grind: Where do you go to get your World of Warcraft fix?
Following last week's nasty Blizzard Hong Kong mess, many players publicly stepped away from the studio and its games, in some cases deleting accounts...
RuneScape opens up dino egg collecting, fixes seagull sounds, and touches on Hardcore Ironman races
Yep, it's another RuneScape news bundle. Hope you like bulleted lists, friends.
Players who are eager to get themselves some baby dinos can now...
EVE Evolved: Chatting up EVE Online world record holder Ethan ‘Katia Sae’ Richards
EVE Online player Ethan Richards is best known by the name of his in-game character Katia Sae, who earlier this year completed an incredible...
SWG Legends teases new dances, flourishes, guild halls, houses, and Halloween
The SWG Legends rogue server of Star Wars Galaxies is ramping up for its October update, and what better way to show off the...
Black Desert PC sets sail for the Great Expedition update on October 23
Arguably, the landmass of Black Desert on PC has seen way more updates and attention than the oceans have. On Wednesday, October 23rd, that's...
ArcheAge Unchained’s test server goes dark in prep for launch
Certain quarters of the MMO community are positively jittering with barely repressed excitement over the imminent launch of ArcheAge's buy-to-play, non-pay-to-win server this week.
With...
The MOP Up: Star Trek Online’s thorny patrol
Cryptic is really hot to trot with Star Trek Online's new patrol system, and this past week the studio highlighted the third new one:...
One Shots: Bring me a shrubbery!
When has something as mundane and nondescript as a bush ever been a helpful hero? And when have we ever featured a MapleStory screenshot...
Daybreak confirms yesterday’s layoffs and ‘realignment of the company into separate franchise teams’
Yesterday, we reported on the sad news that MMORPG company Daybreak Games had suffered yet another round of layoffs. As developers began weighing in...
The Game Archaeologist: Funcom’s long-abandoned Midgard MMO
There used to be a time that Funcom was deeply into the MMORPG business, bringing us titles such as Anarchy Online, Age of Conan,...
ArcheAge Unchained opens up character creation and name reservation today
After a number of delays, ArcheAge Unchained has finally started taking names and allowing players to make their asses. ...wait, that's not how the...
It looks like Daybreak’s been hit with yet another round of layoffs
Former H1Z1 Technical Director and PlanetSide Arena dev Josh "Autenil" Kriegshauser posted a tweet this evening suggesting that Daybreak has once again undergone layoffs.
"Sorry...
ArcheAge Unchained fans are getting antsy about proposed cosmetic gifting
During Gamigo's ArcheAge Unchained stream this afternoon, the chat erupted with cries of "pay-to-win confirmed" over the revelation that cosmetic gifting will be in...
