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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Star Citizen opens Patch 3.6 public testing to all backers and seeks feedback on quantum travel issues
Testing for the latest Star Citizen content update has made it next logical step forward as the game's PTS will now let backers of...
Black Desert beats the heat with six weeks of Termian Waterpark festivities
I dunno about you folks, but where MOP is headquartered, we're on our third straight day of "extreme heat" warnings, bad enough for the...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO offering is filling your summer hours?
We're only now in the middle of July, but so far it feels as though summer 2019 has been a non-stop rollercoaster of great...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Decentraland, Monster & Me, and Grand Fantasia
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles you've probably never heard of (or at least have entirely forgotten about!).
Up first:...
Medieval fantasy sandbox Seconds from Silence will start taking alpha signups on July 19
When we last reported on the in-development sandbox MMORPG Seconds from Silence, we weren't exactly sure how far along things were progressing for the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 229: Adventures in Albion Online
Justin, Samon, and Bree discuss Daybreak, the new LOTR MMO Amazon is co-developing, EVE Online's comms blackout, Caravan Stories, and City of Heroes, with a sponsored segment on Albion Online's Percival update.
MMORPG Seed’s devs want their AI NPCs to learn from, simulate, and fool actual players
We've been keeping an eye on MMO colony sim Seed - the SpatialOS one, not this one - for a few years now, in...
The Soapbox: Hoping for Amazon to succeed where Lord of the Rings Online failed
It's not often I really get excited about an upcoming MMORPG. Partly this is because of the industry slowing down, and partly this is...
The Lahn arrives in Black Desert Mobile’s Korean edition
The mobile version of Black Desert Online, appropriately dubbed Black Desert Mobile so you know exactly what you're getting, is not quite up to...
RuneScape patches holes in Land Out of Time, promotes summer special sub sale
With RuneScape's Land Out of Time fresh on the live servers as of last week, Jagex is already looking ahead to post-launch fixes and...
Camelot Unchained players will get to design their own heraldry in-game
The regular weekly update from Camelot Unchained isn't exactly loaded with what one would call sexy, big ticket items, but the developers of the...
Fight or Kite: Albion Online’s Percival update is for the solo players out there
This week we saw a nice patch released for the world of Albion Online with its Percival update. It’s largely a general quality-of-life update...
Expansion into the Witch Head Nebula is the next community goal for Elite: Dangerous players
Commanders who are extremely active in all things Elite: Dangerous have likely been looking forward to the space sandbox's next community goal. Yesterday gave...
Global Chat: Sucked into Shadowbringers
It's hard to deny the fact that this July, half of the online gaming population seems to be immersed into FFXIV's Shadowbringers expansion. And...
Sea of Thieves video previews Black Powder Stashes event, upcoming balance changes
Shiver me timbers, it's time for another weekly Sea of Thieves developer update. This time, Executive Producer Joe Neate gives players a taste of...
The Daily Grind: Which online game has a personality that mirrors yours?
Intentionally designed or not, every MMO and online game exudes a personality, and no two are exactly alike. It might be the cheerful anarchy...
Fallout 76 confirms a July 16 launch date for Patch 11 and provides preliminary details for a summer event
After a bit of a delay, the next update for the blasted Appalachian landscape of Fallout 76 has its release date. Tuesday, July 16th,...
Project C updates pre-alpha testers on its summer plans, including creatures and contracts
We had a flurry of panic this week when checking in on Project C, but let me just soothe those worries right now: The...
Star Citizen is going to sell 350 more tickets to CitizenCon 2019
Proving that you don't actually need a released game to throw a massive player shindig, CitizenCon has been making serious bank and drawing crowds...
Daybreak spent June creating even more new companies than we thought
This week, we've been covering some strange moves over at MMORPG company Daybreak, the studio long ago comfortably nestled under Sony's hierarchy as SOE...
