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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ArcheAge opens paid character transfers on leap day
If you aren't happy with your ArcheAge server, then Trion has a proposal for you: You give Trion credits, and Trion moves your characters....
Das Tal plans ‘massive’ spring alpha playtest
Das Tal's devs have a "massive" test event planned for the coming season. Fairytale Distillery says that its February sneak-peek playtests will be followed...
Uncharted Water goes to Neo-Babylon in its latest update
Raise the mizzenmast and jib the topsails, it's time for another tour of duty in Uncharted Waters Online! The pseudo-historical Age of Sail sandbox released...
Chaos Theory: The Secret World really needs player music
Sing us a song, you're the piano man. Except, you can't -- not in The Secret World. That's because there is no player music...
SamuTale lets you explore a sandbox world as a samurai
"Boundaries" and "limitations" are not words that the makers of SamuTale like to incorporate into their design philosophy. This upcoming sandbox MMO seems to...
Black Death pushes back its early release
Hope you weren't expecting to contract the virtual bubonic plague any time soon. The grim medieval survival game The Black Death announced yesterday that...
The Repopulation spinoff Fragmented is hunting for a few good testers
The Repopulation lead dev Joshua Halls says that Above & Beyond has opened closed testing for Fragmented to selected applicants. Interested gamers should fill...
ArcheAge’s February update brings costume sythesis and a tougher Mistsong Summit
It might not be the largest content update that's ever graced ArcheAge, but the game's February update does have a few items of note...
Black Desert’s devs on gender-locking, future plans
If you're hoping for every gender-locked class in Black Desert to have an equivalent for the other gender, the bad news for you is...
The Daily Grind: What is your favorite memory from the EverQuest franchise?
It's interesting to note that the EverQuest video game franchise, as a whole, is quite large -- perhaps bigger than you realized. There's the...
Global Chat: What is Daybreak thinking with H1Z1?
Daybreak's announcement earlier this month that it will be splitting H1Z1 into two games triggered a flood of responses from the MMO blogging community,...
Traverse lets you mold and shape your own planet
A tiny dev team is scurrying away on a new title called Traverse that will let players not only think big but create on...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 52: Horror sloth!
Justin and Bree discuss Black Desert 's cash shop, H1Z1, Guild Wars 2, ArcheAge's laundry, Devilian, Grim Dawn, FFXIV, and TSW, with mailbag questions on voiceover localization.
Revival discusses the size and the history of estates
A huge portion of Revival's funding and development centers around the real estate market, so it's not shock that the game's estates are kind...
Hostility and bounty systems arrive in Star Citizen
Are you a law-abiding space citizen who's not above partaking in some mob vigilante justice? Or are you a sneaky ne'er-do-well who wants to...
Black Desert plans special events for the game’s launch
The final beta test for Black Desert recedes into the horizon, but that's all right; there are only a few more days before the...
Life is Feudal adds immersion with seasons patch
How many times have you expressed (or seen expressed) the desire to watch seasons change in an MMO? That's not a feature that most...
EVE Evolved: Citadel stats revealed, theorycrafting begins
EVE Online's Citadel expansion is due to launch this spring, transforming the way many of us play the game through the introduction of player-owned...
The MOP Up: PlanetSide 2 gets a promotion (February 21, 2016)
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: Taking a breather
While one might get a sense that MMOs are nonstop adventures, with players shuttling to and fro on various important (and not-so-important) tasks, every...
