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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The Stream Team: A Black Desert Halloween
Halloween is all about the treats, and Black Desert's event promises lots of treats! Massively OP's MJ is going to take on the daily...
Gloria Victis wants to make you fight over guild castles
Ever wanted to fight over a castle in the sky and shout "winter is coming" at your enemies? Gloria Victis will oblige. It recently...
Project Gorgon’s huge UI revamp is a ‘major stepping stone’ toward Steam early access
Interface junkies, gather round, especially if you like detailed old-school-inspired MMORPGs, for Project Gorgon has unveiled a detailed tour of its new UI. It's...
Star Citizen: Around the Verse, alpha 3.0 bugs, and the state of refunds
Let's just get this out of the way upfront: There are 25 serious issues still on the docket before Star Citizen's alpha 3.0 moves...
Massively Overthinking: Is open-world housing really a ‘failed’ MMORPG experiment?
Massively OP's Justin Olivetti has a provocative article on his personal gaming blog, Bio Break, this week on MMORPG housing.
"I once again wonder why...
The Life is Feudal MMO finally has a soft launch date: November 17
After what seems like a million years of testing (not really though), the MMO version of Life is Feudal is finally leaving closed beta...
Crowfall demos more action harvesting, starts taking guild name reservations
Crowfall isn't content to make gathering as dull and repetitive as in other MMOs, which is why the team is putting great stock in...
Trove’s November 14 update revitalizes guilds, adds East Asian biome
Trion has just announced a "massive" free expansion for its cutesy voxel sandbox Trove, launching on PC, Xbox One, and PS4, all on November...
Ultima Online patches in Halloween, 20-year vet rewards, and Christmas
Publish 98.2 is live in Ultima Online this week with... Christmas?
Yep! Halloween is already live in the game, but the latest patch set up...
Legends of Aria wraps up final alpha test
It's time for Legends of Aria to say farewell to alpha once and for good.
The fantasy MMO wrapped up its so-called final alpha test...
EVE Online gives miners the tools to do the job right
Mining might not be the most visually impressive or glorious activity in EVE Online, but it helps to form the backbone of the game's...
Black Desert’s Wonderland-themed Halloween is live with fresh dailies
Halloween is live in Black Desert today, with a main event partly inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
"As the blood moon rises above the Black Desert...
ArcheAge brings in a variety of haunting events for Hallowtide
Starting on Tuesday, October 24th, ArcheAge is getting into the spirit of Halloween. As we all know, the real meaning of Halloween is dressing...
Star Citizen helps players find the right spaceship for them
With all of the many spaceships designed (and sold) for Star Citizen so far, it might be a little confusing which might be the...
Stephan Frost’s Nexon project gains former Amazon gameplay engineer
The handrubbing intrigue over Stephan Frost's mysterious project at Nexon ramped up this week with the announcement of another member that has signed up...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 140: Dubious drops in LOTRO, FFXIV, and SWTOR
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, Secret World Legends' Orochi Tower patch, Lord of the Rings' weird patch week, FFXIV's housing mess, SWTOR's balance patch, Warframe's open-world patch, and H1Z1's name-change patch, with a mailbag question about older gamers in MMORPGs.
The Stream Team: Daring to try RuneScape’s Dimension of the Damned
What if RuneScape was a survival game? It is now -- or at least in a way. In honor of the holiday season the...
EverQuesting: Celebrate everything Nights of the Dead with our EverQuest II guide
I may be disappointed with the lack of caring I feel is being shown to EverQuest II players by Daybreak/Columbus Nova, but that doesn't mean I...
No, Squadron 42 isn’t going to release this year
All right, let's be honest, you probably didn't actually think that Star Citizen's much-delayed single-player Squadron 42 was coming out this year. Around this...
Chronicles of Elyria picks up former Revival lead developer
Has enough time gone by to start erasing memories of Revival, that ambitious but troubled horror MMO that was canceled back in March 2016?...
