Jack and Ryan cover Windborne for This Is... Windborne brings social sandbox creation games to the next level. Explore a vibrant world filled with secrets to unlock and treasures to find, craft personalized furnishings and innovative artifacts, and befriend intriguing Jin to help build a new civilization.

As Microsoft gets into early access, this new failure reminds us of the inherent risks for gamers and developers.
Pixels for Breakfast writes: When Heller said that the guys behind Counter-Strike: Global Offensive were making an open-world exploratory game featuring crafting and dragons, I thought he was nuts. Then he said they added in some kind of Animal Crossing elements and I really though he had lost it. Then he even said it wasn’t voxel based, and I thought he was a barefaced liar.
Windborne is pretty wonderful. Here’s my hands-on with the Early Access build released a few weeks ago.