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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Epic’s shooter/sandbox hybrid Fortnite hits early access July 25
Way back in 2011, Epic Games announced Fortnite, an "action building game" that functions as a bit of a co-op-shooter-slash-survival-sandbox. You'd be forgiven for...
The Stream Team: Entering the gates of RuneScape’s Menaphos
RuneScape just opened up a giant city of Menaphos. Do want to peek inside and see what is different in the game's first big...
SWTOR lists class specs slated for Update 5.3 love
BioWare has informed players that some of Star Wars: The Old Republic's advanced classes and disciplines will be getting some changes and love with this...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs that died too soon
Your favorite game is going to die. I wrote about that. Some games are never even going to get to launching in the first...
E3 2017: Nexon’s dinosaur MMO Durango launches Q4 this year
I've been to Colorado's Durango many times, and I can assure you that there are no dinosaurs there. Nexon's Durango, however, is overrun with...
MapleStory drops a trailer for its June and July Override updates
Nexon's wildly popular sidescrolly MMO MapleStory is gearing up for two new updates this summer that'll "allow players to strengthen their characters with new...
Black Desert’s patch today extends loyalty events with new rewards
This Black Desert penguin, complete with lens flare, would like to come home with you. He's part of the game's new round of loyalty...
Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online Morrowind is the MMO you want and don’t want
I have been head-over-heels for Elder Scrolls Online since One Tamriel, and the Morrowind chapter has only added to my enthusiasm for the game....
Old School RuneScape players threaten to riot over LGBTQ pride event
Old School RuneScape's playerbase isn't showing its best side this week.
Motherboard reports that following the announcement by a Jagex employee that a small gay...
ArcheAge Erenor Eternal update dev tour: Trading revamp and new zones
Have you got the urge to explore? ArcheAge's Erenor Eternal launches this evening, bringing three brand-new zones for players to gallivant about in. Of course,...
Cryptic announces brand-new Magic: The Gathering MMORPG
One of the largest and longest-running collectible card games is about to become a brand-new role-playing video game, courtesy of Cryptic Studios. Cryptic and...
Wild West Online shows first in-game footage, offers early bird preorder packages
In other games it might be called a founder's pack, but in Wild West Online, the team is calling it an Early Bird special....
SpatialOS-powered Fractured is a sandbox MMO without the grind or forced PvP
The burgeoning SpatialOS empire has a new member state this week, as Italy-based Dynamight Studios announced that it is making Fractured using the world-building platform. Fractured...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 120: Steaming into summer
Justin and Bree discuss Marvel Heroes, FFXIV, Elder Scrolls Online, SWTOR, Ashes of Creation, Neverwinter, Shroud of the Avatar, and Black Desert, with a mailbag question on "don't give a fudge" gaming.
EVE Online celebrates CCP’s 20th anniversary with sale and pep talk
Did you know that this month marks the 20th anniversary of CCP Games? Well now you do, and you have no excuse not to...
Amazon Game Studios grabs H1Z1’s art director
Amazon Game Studios continues to lure talented developers away for its new multiplayer projects. Sebastian Strzalkowski became the latest to defect to the new...
Preview: Behind the gates of RuneScape’s Menaphos, opening today
One of the worst teases in a game for me is to see a place and not be able to go and explore it....
The MOP Up: Revelation Online’s monthly challenges (June 4, 2017)
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...
Cross-platform social sandbox MMO Pixel Worlds comes to PC next week
Tired of cutthroat guild politics, giant epaulets, and lens flare in big budget MMOs? Point your eyeballs instead at Pixel Worlds, a game Finnish...
Gloria Victis adds new things to fight over in its new map spaces
There are a lot of new lands in Gloria Victis, but what use are new lands if there's nothing to fight over? You'd have...
