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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EVE Evolved: EVE Online’s asset safety bait and switch was a colossal mistake
Imagine if you logged back into your favourite MMO after a few months away to find that your character's gear was gone or valuable...
The MOP Up: COVID-19’s digital silver lining
While the COVID-19 epidemic has been nine types of awful over the last half-year, video game studios and publishers aren't complaining quite as loud...
The Repopulation replaces whiteboxes with art and improves harvesting regions
The May/June update from The Repopulation is available for fans to read through and it's once more chock full of steady yet incremental progress...
Raph Koster touches on the technology and community that will bring Playable Worlds’ MMO to life
Raph Koster, the CEO of Playable Worlds, certainly has plenty of thoughts about the creation of a metaverse. First, however, you have to actually...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Past Fate, Damascus, Rise in Time, and Infinite Fleet
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs (and MMO-adjacent titles) you've never heard of!
Remember Past Fate? It made it into this roundup last...
Star Citizen kicks off its ‘Alien Week’ with lore, contests, and ship sales as it passes $300M crowdfunding
It's like Shark Week but with digital extraterrestrial life! Or more specifically, it's much like the game's St. Patrick's Day celebration. In any event,...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO are you most nostalgic for?
I'll admit it, I'm an absolute fool for nostalgia. Things that I loved in the past can still bring a warm glow to my...
Last Oasis posts a video devlog all about Walker vehicles
One of the first things that made Last Oasis stand out visually was its woodpunk Walkers -- titanic vehicles of wood, fiber, and stone...
ARK: Survival Evolved celebrates five years, makes Crystal Isles map official, becomes latest free EGS game
It's birthday time for ARK: Survival Evolved and its players, which is just one of several announcements made on the game's latest Community Crunch...
Star Citizen shows off predatory creature concepts, previews new locations arriving in alpha 3.10
Star Citizen has already briefly touched on a couple of creatures like the space cow and space whale, but not everything in the animal...
Leaderboard: Star Wars Galaxies vs. Star Wars The Old Republic
Yesterday, I read on Twitter that Star Wars The Old Republic has, as of this week, been live longer than Star Wars Galaxies was....
Massively Overthinking: Do you keep MMOs installed for the login freebies?
MOP reader Styopa proposed this fun topic for Massively Overthinking this week, prompted, he said, by Standing Stone Games' recent promotions for Lord of...
Multiplayer robot building sandbox Main Assembly promises deep creation tools with its early access launch today
Sandboxes don't only have to be places where people get to whale away on each other in the most risk-free way possible. They can...
Population Zero adds armor repair kits, lowers building restrictions, and shares an open dev roadmap
While player count problems still persist for the multiplayer survival sandbox Population Zero, the developers at Enplex Games are full steam ahead with the...
ArcheAge’s controversial Garden of the Gods expansions is live today
It should be a happy day for ArcheAge and ArcheAge Unchained, as the duo's latest expansion, Garden of the Gods, is going live. But...
RuneScape fixes evil trees and ‘horribly deformed’ livestock as Jagex celebrates a $250K charity donation
Another week, another RuneScape patch. It's a tale as old as time, but as the headline alludes, this week's set of patch notes has...
EVE Echoes readies up a final playtest before official launch and shares a Q&A
With the mobile MMO EVE Echoes on the horizon, there's time still for one last test to make sure everything is right and tight....
Desert Oasis: Exploring Black Desert’s mysterious O’dylitta region
With the Heidel ball now a memory, there's much to look forward to in Black Desert Online. Along with a new class and a variety...
Black Desert delays season servers on PC, adds Margoria on console, as Shadow Arena sees 5K concurrent players
Black Desert's PC version is gearing up for summer, which means a deluge of events under the "Waiting for Summer" banner. Players will be...
Elite Dangerous is working on a list of Fleet Carrier bugs – including the blonde hair bug
The launch of the Fleet Carriers update to Elite: Dangerous hasn't exactly gone off without a hitch, as a number of players are reporting...
