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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Black Desert’s PC roadmap dates Guardian Awakening, more Succession skills, and new continents
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EVE Evolved: Fight or Flight is a season for change in EVE Online
January marks not just the beginning of a new year for EVE Online but also the start of a new seasonal development strategy for...
Battle Bards Episode 160: MMO cover songs vol. 2
For the first time since Episode 50, the Battle Bards crew returns to the theme of cover songs of MMO tracks. Several extremely musicians...
The MOP Up: Funcom delays Moons of Madness’ console release
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The Game Archaeologist: Super-early versions of MMORPG websites
One of the absolute best things the internet ever generated has been the Internet Wayback Machine. Through this site, snapshots of millions of websites...
One Shots: Abusing emote spam
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Albion Online is planning a big Battle for Caerleon event tomorrow ahead of the Queen update
With Albion Online's Queen update rolling on toward launch next week, Sandbox Interactive is understandably keen on ramping up the in-game storyline that'll drive...
New World just took a hard turn away from a PvP slugfest, and hardcore PvPers are not happy
Even knowing it was slated to arrive, I was still surprised last night when Amazon Game Studios dropped New World's latest dev blog well...
Project Gorgon kicks off a new and improved Crafting Caravan event
The most wonderful time of the year for crafting-minded players of Project Gorgon is back once again. It's time for the Crafting Caravan seasonal...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Agonia Lands, Decentraland, Fable Valley, Bloodstone Online, Hunter’s Arena Legends
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent games you’ve (probably) never heard of - or have totally forgotten about until now!
First up...
Last Oasis details how to find safety in the deserts of the survival sandbox
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Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG bugs ever
This week's Massively Overthinking discussion topic is inspired by Crowfall's J Todd Coleman, who last fall tweeted about the time playable spiders almost became...
EVE Online’s charity campaign to support victims of Australian bushfires is now live
Last week, CCP Games announced that it was reviving its PLEX for GOOD campaign specifically to raise funds for victims of the Australian bushfires...
ArcheAge Unchained offers players another shot at the Diligence Coin Compensation Package
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The Survivalist: My top 20 survival game goals for 2020, part the second
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Vague Patch Notes: Guild Wars 2 might be the MMO that defined the last decade
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Over a million people subbed to RuneScape in 2019, with ‘many millions’ more playing F2P
Ah RuneScape - the MMO everyone seems to be playing, but nobody you know. It's made our "underrated" lists repeatedly over the years while...
Desert Oasis: First impressions of Black Desert’s new Guardian class
Remember that Futurama episode where Fry, Kip, and Zaf Branbigan got stranded on a planet full of amazons and were sentenced to death by...
PlanetSide 2 patches in weapon changes and major shifts to continent lockdowns
The latest patch for PlanetSide 2 does not contain some of the database migration that was originally planned for the title. That's the bad news....
Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures at the start of 2020
This annual column always inspires a certain amount of debate, which is intentional. Outside of the office, a good chunk of that debate is...
