Those of you on Golden Valley may have noticed a character called Have Hope wandering around trying to dig holes and cut down trees. He was a reviewer from Gamezine and was busy trying to find out all about us with the minimum of input from us. Well, I lost track of him for a few days, but he eventually appeared, looking a little tatty, and asking could he see how the vets did it (he meant the experienced players, not the people who look after our bears!) Well, I whisked him round the new Independence server, showed him the canal at Crystal Lakes, the canal tunnel, my beach house (where he decided to go and talk to a bemused troll) and eventually dumped him with those nice people at Free Bears so they could show him how to build a house.

The result of his little trip can be seen here. And a fair review it is too, I think. He appears to have missed the dragon on our front page, going by his comment about monsters, and he called the canal a valley, but apart from that he seemed to enjoy himself, and that really is all we ask for - good times, good company, and enough challenges to make you feel like you have really achieved something - THAT is Wurm Online!