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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Battle Bards Episode 120: Short stuff
Look down — and it’ll be the last thing you’ll ever see! That’s because fury and death arrive in the form of short character...
Gloria Victis patches in new passive skills for players to use
The passive skill system for Gloria Victis has gotten an upgrade with the game's most recent patch, and the new passives let you be...
Black Desert’s weekly patch adds new events, combat tweaks, and ent world boss as Kakao deletes guild forts to save them
Tree bosses are all the rage this spring in MMOs, and Black Desert's got one too. Oh, did I say tree boss? I meant...
Perfect Ten: MMOs with different (camera) perspectives
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Red Dead Redemption 2 posts third trailer, sticks to October launch date
Red Dead Redemption 2's new trailer is finally here (after an absurd amount of teasing and handwringing over what could be in it). Spoiler...
Massively OP Interview: Dual Universe demo shows off advances in city building, space travel
When you work in video games, you often get asked what new titles you are looking forward to. While experience has been teaching me...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 168: MMOs all higgledy-piggledy
Justin and Bree discuss Wild West Online, EVE Online, WoW's Battle for Azeroth, Ragnarok, Elite, LOTRO, Star Trek Online, Trove, and City of Heroes' Paragon Chat, with mailbag questions on free-to-play entitlement and whether expansions need new classes.
Rumor: Daybreak may be building PlanetSide 3 and EverQuest 3, sunsetting Just Survive
While Daybreak producers are spelling out their games' future, a now-deleted post over at Reddit by an alleged former employee of Daybreak Games purports to...
Safecracking feature and tools are live for RuneScape’s thieves today
Live today in regular flavor RuneScape is a brand-new update that ought to make thieves in particular happy.
"Safecracking is a new training method, unlocked...
EVE Online is losing another developer – this time, it’s CCP Punkturis
Another prominent member of the EVE Online team is apparently departing. Senior Software Engineer KatrÃn Atladóttir, aka CCP Punkturis, announced on Twitter last night...
EVE Evolved: Getting ready for EVE Online’s Abyssal revolution
If you've seen the news recently coming out of EVE Fanfest 2018, you've probably heard of EVE Online's upcoming expansion: Into the Abyss. Pockets...
Daybreak: Here’s where the EverQuest franchise, DCUO, PlanetSide 2, H1Z1, and Just Survive stand
Not counting Standing Stone's titles, Daybreak currently develops and publishes six of its once massive stable of MMOs: Both EverQuests, DC Universe Online, PlanetSide...
The MOP Up: Neverwinter’s Lost City of Omu arrives on consoles (April 29, 2018)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
One Shots: A well-rounded Hobbit (breakfast)
With the prodigious and well-known appetite of Hobbits, it's a total surprise to me that the Shire hasn't been stripped bare with these creatures'...
The Game Archaeologist: Red Planet’s Lost Colony vaporware
You know the story of Roanoke, right? That early American settlement that abruptly went missing with only the word "Croatoan" carved into a tree...
Massively Overthinking: How accountable should MMOs hold players for out-of-game toxicity?
Brendan's discussion with CCP Falcon at EVE Fanfest last week included an interesting chat about out-of-game harassment and whether gaming companies had an obligation...
Star Citizen shows off its sleek starter ship while Squadron 42 discusses its storytelling
The word "Origin" has a special meaning to Chris Roberts and the Star Citizen team, so it's not surprising that there has been special...
Impressions of Sea of Thieves, one month in: Deep-diving retro world PvP
It's really hard for me to not to gush hard about Sea of Thieves. I know many out there won't agree, and it's easy to say why,...
EverQuesting: Columbus Nova or not, Daybreak is tying its own noose
How about those Red Sox? Seriously, that's a conversation I'd rather be having than the one that has cropped up this week -- and...
Black Desert celebrates South and North Korean peace summit with global buff tonight
Anybody for some good news? Yeah? Me too! If you follow real-world international headlines even a little bit, you surely are aware that history...
