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Choose My Adventure: Where Winds Meet ends as intriguingly and confusingly as it started

I’ve spent a few hours over the course of this past month with Where Winds Meet, and I still cannot tell you how I really feel about that time with the game all that much. Or at least not with any level of great confidence. That’s not to suggest I’m passing final judgment (this is […]
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RuneScape Dragonwilds’ Dowdun Reach is live today with new quest content and dedicated servers

As promised, RuneScape Dragonwilds’ 0.11 patch has entered the survival sandbox’s early access chat today, bearing the uncomfortable name Dowdun Reach, which either sounds like “dowdy” or reminds me of Downton Abbey every single time I see it. The patch itself is anything but dowdy, however, as players are looking at new quests, new building […]
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Cozy MMO Spirit Crossing talks about the ‘elephant in the room’ of monetization

While Spry Fox’s cute and cozy-looking MMO Spirit Crossing isn’t out yet, there’s already a pretty big concern for the title as a whole — and the studio knows it. The issue is that of turning the game into a money-making venture without selling out its soul, a topic that’s the focus of a new […]
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Never Wither is a multiplayer survival crafting ARPG where players collect and control critters

Sure, we’ve seen a couple of games that combine creature collecting and survival sandbox mechanics before, but what if that game format were more about ARPG combat and also let players directly control the companions they capture? That seems to be the elevator pitch of Never Wither, a developing multiplayer survival crafting ARPG from studio […]
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The Daily Grind: Have you ever lost anything in an MMORPG rollback?

In the long long ago, rollback in MMOs were pretty common. Because of Ultima Online’s infrastructure, we saw rollbacks that first year of play weekly – more if you count the daily server reboot that always lost a few minutes (and became a free-for-all once players figured it out. But over time, rollbacks became so […]
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The Daily Grind: Be honest, how many of your MMO houses are just a box?

A few weeks back, there was an article on PC Gamer that actually made me laugh out loud. “I’m sick of the survival crafting ‘Cube’ and calling the gamer HOA on all of you,” author Andrea Shearon declared. I feel extremely called out because I literally have one of these in Palia; I bought a […]
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