Ben Griggs

Throughout the ebbs and flows of my MMO experiences, I’ve found my patience for the genre slowly eroding over time as the thousandth NPC asks for help on the millionth task in a never-ending cycle of corruption, cleansing, evil incursion, and ingredient-gathering. The one exception – though it’s not immune to these tropes – is a game I seem to return to on the regular: Lord of the Rings Online. I was in this space a year ago, talking about my return to the game after nearly a decade away.

To be honest, I never thought I’d get into No Man’s Sky. In fact, my latest attempt isn’t the first time I’ve tried. On two previous occasions, I’ve jumped into my red exosuit and donned my trusty multitool, only to fade away after a few days. But this time, something finally clicked, and it clicked hard. I think the problem I’ve had in my previous attempts at the game was the same thing that irritates me about all survival games in the early stages: the tedium of the survival aspect.

The studio responsible for the Russian version of World of Tanks and World of Warships has had its assets seized by the Russian government. According to Russian news agency RBC, a trio of companies – Lesta, Lesta Games Moscow, and Lesta Games Agency – had their assets seized last week on April 17th by the prosecutor general’s office.