Update Night is a fortnightly column in which Rich McCormick revisits games to find out whether they’ve been changed for better or worse.
It turned out that the end of the world came with a bang and a whimper. The bang came from the volcano at the centre of Northgard s map a new feature added to the Viking-themed strategy game as part of its free Ragnarok update.
The whimper was me, realising that the blobs of molten rock that its eruption deposited around my territory would soon turn into angry stone golems and start punching my precious villagers to death. I wasn t ready. (more…)