This month we’re celebrating
two fantasy institutions.
There’s the grimdark excess of
Warhammer, courtesy of our
exclusive reveal of Vermintide
II’s first expansion, Winds of
Magic. Developer Fatshark has
some exciting ideas for its
continued life.Elsewhere, Steven Messner
visited Daybreak Studios to
celebrate the 20th anniversary
of a PC gaming legend. In our
EverQuest feature, we discover how a group of
inexperienced developers changed online
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Wrote our EverQuest
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