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Valheim brings the Bog Witch update to its public test server
"Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble, this test build is not indicative of a final product." We're admittedly taking some artistic liberties with the classic...
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...
Valheim’s boardgame has kicked off its crowdfunding campaign
Valheim fans, be aware: The crowdfunding campaign for the official board game is now underway during the month of October. This is a one-to-four...
The MOP Up: EverQuest II levels up its Roehn Theer raid
An old favorite raid of EverQuest II is about to get an upgrade for the Year of Darkpaw. Daybreak announced that the Celebration Avatar Challenge:...
Valheim begins dropping teases for its next update due in the fall
This past May saw Valheim finally introduce its Ashlands biome and related gameplay additions after a year and a half of wait, but if...
The MOP Up: Spellfarers lets you dabble in moon magic
The recently launched magic life sim Spellfarers Update 0.511 arrived with "lots of fixes, including to cooking, a new stove for Ilo's kitchen, minor...
Perfect Ten: 10 tabletop games based on World of Warcraft
So here's what inspired this particular article: I was thinking about board games based upon MMOs of various scales because the other day I...
Valheim’s board game incarnation offers a gameplay deep dive
If you're eagerly awaiting more news about the ongoing development of Valheim the video game, we are sorry to inform you that you will...
Stars Reach’s Raph Koster argues that a persistent virtual world is ‘too powerful an idea’ to dismiss
Those watching the online gaming genre with a growing sense of dismay at everything drifting away from large, persistent MMO worlds may find solace...
First impressions of ASKA, Sand Sailor’s brand-new colony-building survival sandbox
Thanks to the press preview hosted by Thunderful and Sand Sailor, I recently had the opportunity to play around with survival sandbox ASKA a...
Bohemia’s multiplayer survival sandbox Ylands has officially landed on Switch for offline play
As we've been chronicling - and I might be a little obsessed with it now that I'm finally catching up on its existence, sorry...
Massively Overthinking: Unfair stigmas that follow MMORPGs
A few weeks back, our team was discussing the intersection of survival sandboxes, MMORPG virtual worlds, and gankboxes - and how hard it is...
Valheim unveils plans for a board game, with a crowdfunding campaign opening in September
If you're a big enough fan of the Viking survival sandbox Valheim that you'd be willing to crowdfund a tabletop board game version, you're...
Valheim launches to Mac players, V Rising arrives to PlayStation 5
This week is all about proliferation of Iron Gate's and Stunlock Studios' survival sandboxes, as both Valheim and V Rising have expanded to new...
Survival sandbox Valheim expands its early access to Mac gamers next week
Before you ask, no, Valheim has still not emerged from early access. But it did just roll out its massive Ashlands expansion back in...
The MOP Up: My Time at Sandrock will make you a proper Monster Whisperer
To start off our small news roundup this weekend, let's head over to co-op farm sim My Time at Sandrock, where the devs talked about...
Valheim’s F2P Ashlands biome patch has finally launched after a year and a half wait
Iron Gate has been talking about Valheim's Ashlands update since December. No, not last December. The December before that - 2022 December, when Mistlands...
Valheim continues ironing out its Ashlands update with a ‘really chunky’ bug-fixing PTS patch
The early access survivalbox Valheim isn't yet ready to release its earlier access new Ashlands biome out of its public test realm, evidently. Iron...
The Daily Grind: Do you avoid base-building in survival MMOs?
Listening to some of the recent development chatter surrounding Funcom's Dune Awakening, I was reminded that this survival MMO had bases -- ones which...
V Rising details gameplay waiting in the Ruins of Mortium, Valheim continues its Ashlands test
This is either a tale of two games that start with the letter V, two games that are working on new zones, or two...
