Back in the late 2000s, Just Cause developer Avalanche Studios was working on a fantasy open-world game titled AionGuard that felt like Crimson Desert. Crimson Desert might not be everything we hoped it would be but it has undeniably found an audience and reminded everyone there's still significant interest in sprawling open-world games. A studio that knows a thing or two about such projects is Aval... [1893 chars]