Legendary game designer Will Wright, who led the development of not only simcity but the original sims Plus, he hasn’t made a great video game since 2008. Spore. However, he’s back in 2022, working on something called VOXVerse.

It’s a social game where you mine things, build things, and talk to people. And everyone is a squat little voxel-based character. There will also be real estate that you buy and own, and I think you can see where this is going.

The project ticks all the boxes for something that should have been announced in May 2021 and then quietly shelved 12 months later when the ass fell off the market. It’s on the blockchain, it’s licensing it, it’s using the word “metaverse” and its overall design sounds like something released solely for…