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Block by block: Hands-on with the Cube World alpha
From an outsider's perspective, Picroma's Cube World might look like yet another Minecraft clone. It has the same blocky appearance and voxel design of Mojang's money-printing sandbox, and though the color palette is brighter and the graphics more crisp, it would be easy to dismiss the title as a "me-too" copycat. "If you've played one cube-based game," says the veteran gamer who lives in your brain, "you've played them all." Despite the visual similarities, however, Cube World and Minecraft are extremely different games. Minecraft is a crafter's paradise, a world where you can build anything you can imagine. Cube World is an adventure game, and fans of MMOs will find it far closer to World of Warcraft or Guild Wars 2 than it is to the game that threatens huts with Creepers and allows you to build full-scale replicas of pretend spaceships. Cube World is unique, and even in alpha, it's something quite special.
Neo's Land voxel-based building demo now available
Did our Neo's Land preview whet your appetite for voxel-based MMO creativity earlier this month? If so, you'll want to know that starting today, you can log into the game's website and play around with a set of editing tools that allow for dungeon creation, terrain sculpting, house construction, and more! Though the building demo is web-based, developer NeoJac notes that the full game will feature a traditional client/server model when it launches in 2014. Don't forget that you can help fund Neo's Land via its ongoing Kickstarter drive. [Source: NeoJac press release]
