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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Design Mockument: How would you make a good mecha MMORPG?
So because I am me, I decided to be on the bleeding edge of topicality and start figuring out how to make a Robotech...
Fallen Earth remake’s new Unity servers are ‘quite far along’ as devs target launch for Q4 2025
After a 10-month period of silence about Fallen Earth and its Unity remake, Little Orbit CEO Matt Scott sat down for an hour-long AMA...
Albion Online is offering big gold raffles for players who test Horizons this morning
If you're curious about Albion Online's upcoming Horizons update and want to take a peek ahead of time, today is your day, as Sandbox...
ArcheAge Chronicles video highlights its acrobatic combat and vast persistent online world
A couple of weeks ago XLGames and Kakao Games showed off a rebranded and revised ArcheAge 2, with the name of ArcheAge Chronicles and...
Massively Overthinking: How do you stop MMOs from feeling like (or becoming) a part-time job?
In last week's Choose My Adventure, MOP's Chris penned a perfect paragraph summing up the paradox of MMORPGs - it doesn't even matter what...
MapleStory’s Midnight Carnival arrives for the Halloween season
Don't look now, but MapleStory might be crushing the competition with its Halloween update this year. The V.254 release arrived on Wednesday with the...
Medieval MMO Anvil Empires introduces cargo ships to cross the ocean blue
When medieval sandbox MMORPG Anvil Empires greatly expanded its in-development world map into several landmasses this past August, it created a new problem for...
Conan Exiles sets October 17 date for Age of Heroes and its massive NPC revamp
As of this afternoon, we've got a hard date for Conan Exiles' Age of Heroes: October 17th. First announced back in August, it's the...
Colony sandbox MMO SEED is in ‘pre-release,’ plans October 24 test run
The abrupt and bizarre death of colony sandbox and "society simulator" SEED in 2022 was only topped by its abrupt resurrection and return of...
EVE Online reveals Revenant expansion, EVE Frontier wraps up fourth test, EVE Vanguard plans ‘biggest update yet’
Who's ready for a big announcement from EVE Online? CCP Games revealed EVE's next expansion, Revenant, this afternoon. It's set to launch November 12th.
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Vague Patch Notes: What is good meaningful leveling in MMORPGs?
All right. So we are here at long last, at the end of Leveling Month, although it's actually more like Month And A Bit....
Sea of Thieves’ Season 14 emphasizes stealth and skullduggery with new weapons and tricks October 17
Most of the time in Sea of Thieves, players are effectively loud and brash pirates owing to the fact that they fire cannons, throw...
Stars Reach’s world reshaping tool test rewarded curious players with ‘spectacular’ death
Stars Reach is continuing to push onward with playtesting that almost no one is in, but at least we get to hear about it...
Old School RuneScape reduces downtime and improves its winter boss fight
The great GM knows that all of us have gone through an endless parade of boss fights in MMOs. But most of those encounters...
Perfect Ten: The complete list of CCP’s weird EVE Online projects and offshoots
CCP Games, like some other studios we could mention, seems to be a place where the team got one very successful MMO off the...
Brighter Shores confirms November launch date following October 22 closed beta
Back in August, we learned that Brighter Shores, the new MMORPG en route from Jagex and RuneScape co-founder Andrew Gower, was targeting November 5th...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 488: Amazon vs Amazon
Justin and Bree discuss Ultima Online New Legacy, New World Aeternum, Throne and Liberty, Lord of the Rings Online's Legacy of Morgoth, and fall expansions for EverQuest and EverQuest II, with adventures in World of Warcraft, LOTRO, and Guild Wars 2, plus a mailbag topic on what we're willing to do for long-term MMO rewards.
Pax Dei weaves a lore-focused audio story of the creation of its world
Did you know that Pax Dei has lore? It's true! While our Choose My Adventure columnist learned only a story of highly bloodthirsty foxes,...
Valheim will introduce a new cooking and farming skill with its bog witch swamp biome update
"The Spill" may sound like your favorite MMO's requisite sewer zone, but today we're talking tea, as it's the name of Coffee Stain's and...
Black Desert PC introduces the element-wielding Awakened Dosa in latest update
Sure, being able to magically weave fog is pretty cool, but what if you could weave five elements alternately in a fight? That's the...
