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Today marks the launch of World of Warcraft patch 10.2.6 and Plunderstorm, Blizzard's new battle royale PvP experiment. Based on my interviews with Blizzard representatives and WoW's past update cycles, I've figured out when the MMO's next expansion will probably release.
Brighter Shores, the upcoming MMO from original RuneScape creator and Jagex founder Andrew Gower, loosely channels RuneScape in its focus on relaxing grinds, a mix of idle gameplay, and branching professions. In an interview with GamesRadar+, Gower touched on another similarity with Old School RuneScape especially: "It is more about the journey than it is about the endgame."
The studio behind Gotham Knights is seemingly supporting Monolith Productions on its upcoming Wonder Woman game.
RuneScape's original creator is sailing to new horizons with his upcoming MMO Brighter Shores, which is "opposed to the onslaught of microtransactions" seen in modern games.
In a recent interview with members of indie collective/developer New Blood, I asked them how they attribute their current success in the face of so much misery, layoffs, and studio closures in the industry. «We're not beholden to shareholders or investors or anything like that,» said studio boss Dave Oshry. «We get to make what we want—that's our whole motto: 'we hate money.'
New Blood Interactive and its longtime members have an almost «elder statesman» position in the boomer shooter scene—the indie FPS milieu that celebrates design and aesthetic trends from the '90s and early '00s. That status hardly came about overnight, though.
RuneScape's original co-creator has detailed how his newest MMO battles the grind that usually bogs the genre down, even letting players automate busywork like mining.
As original RuneScape creator Andrew Gower marches toward the release of his new MMO, Brighter Shores, later this year, he's comforted by the fact that his small team of just eight developers only has to answer to themselves.