Dear exiles, Happy November everyone! Hope you all had a great Halloween and that you didn’t overstuff yourselves on sugary sweets. We celebrated the only way we could think of: Smashing pumpkins. Literally. Many thanks to our American community managers Nicole Vayo and Andy Benditt for taking time out of their work schedules to partake in what we hope will become a…

Dear exiles, We have returned! There was no newsletter last week as Joel and I attended SplashJam the week before that (meaning we weren’t at the weekly dev meeting). SplashJam is a game jam on a cruise ship travelling from Tromsø to Trondheim in Norway. Funcom was one of the sponsors of the event with Amazon, D-Pad Studios and Unity, among others, with Joel and…

Dear exiles, We hope everyone’s had a good weekend and that the fall weather is treating you well. I’ll keep the introduction short this week so we can get to the good stuff! Current state of PC Last week we pushed a new build to Testlive with some exciting changes. You can now interact with archer, fighter and dancer thralls and…

Dear exiles, Technically it’s getting cold outside. Hope everyone’s been enjoying the first week of October! It’s getting colder by the day, the perfect time to curl up under a blanket, drink some hot chocolate, and play a video game. For this week’s community letter, we’re trying something different: fewer words! And possibly some more gifs and pictures, depending on what I’m…

Does eating an exotic feast meal, made up of spiced haunch, cooked eggs and dried berries, while drinking some nice highlands wine sound tempting to you? Needing food and water at regular intervals can be somewhat of a hassle in both real life and survival games. But just as in real life, where eating and…

Dear exiles,  Happy October! It’s the month of spoops, pumkpin spiced lattes and complaining about Norwegian stores selling their Christmas candy and decorations too early. We’ve been working out of our new offices for four weeks now and everyone has managed to settle into the new work space. The coders have solved their window blinds problem, we finally have a microwave oven in the kitchen, and now…