This week's MMO Friday Fight explores the fundamental design philosophy behind most modern MMOs: Sandbox versus Themepark.
The Playable Worlds team has a new deep dive into mining, related tools, skills, dangers, and what's to come in Stars Reach.
Raph Koster delves into who Playable Worlds is building their community-driven sandbox, Stars Reach, for, and the guiding motivations behind their design.
Raph Koster is sharing more development pillars of Playable Worlds' upcoming MMORPG Stars Reach. This time, he focuses on the fun they're looking to build and provide as part of the experience.
Old World Labs announced a new, upcoming sandbox MMO, Abyss. This open-world MMO aims to create an ever-evolving narrative, guild warfare, and more when it hits early access next year.
Arctic Theory's has revealed more information about its upcoming MMO, previously codenamed Annex. Pioneers of New Dawn aims to be an innovative sandbox MMO, with closed alpha information coming later this year.
Longtime MMO developer, Gordon Walton has joined Playable Worlds, the company building a new cloud-native sandbox MMORPG helmed by Raph Koster. Walton joins Playable Worlds as both Executive Producer and Chief Product Officer.
Carbon Based Lifeforms pulled the veil back on its upcoming sandbox MMO, Hyperspace, today. The pitch is an MMO that is free-to-play-and-earn, giving players the tools to forge their own path and, if they want, make a little money on the side. We chatted with CEO Theo Priestley about the upcoming MMO.
Clockwork Labs, a new fully remote independent game development studio by MMO veterans, has announced it has raised $4.3 million to create a new community sandbox MMORPG.
A new playtest is on the way very soon for Elteria Adventures. But instead of the usual closed playtest which precedes an open playtest, it looks like the team are just skipping the closed playtest part and going straight for an open playtest. These are the details.
Sandbox MMO Fractured has announced a reduction in prices for their Alpha.