User blog:Baziel/Winter 2017-18: Archives,Blood Omen articles, Crystal Dynamics and the SE Collective

Welcome to the Winter Update! As always I want to do it more regularly then end up with a massive bi-yearly one – but there is always the Facebook page and Wiki Activity to keep up with the more immediate happenings in the community and page.

So Arguably our main thing – or should have been our main thing - was our 10th anniversary in July... erm just before the last update actually.... Don't worry if you didn't notice it, to be honest we didn't either and there wasn't much to shout about at the time, but take the completed magazine archive and the ongoing work on the sources archive as a token of appreciation and gratitude. Hopefully I'll be more alert to the passage of time for the next one in 2022.

As for the wiki itself, we're still in the midst of some rearranging and refreshing of the Categories, site navigation and the main page, so expect some reorganisation as things move around. As always page work continues with Blood Omen getting a large amount of updates recently with completed location articles on the Flame Sword Dungeon, Blood Gout Dungeon, Control Mind Dungeon, Termogent Forest, Lightning Dungeon, Spirit Wrack Dungeon, Provincial Mines, Heaven dungeon, Hell dungeon, Avernus Catacombs and Avernus Cathedral. Other completed Blood Omen stuff includes the Warped precipitation and the character articles for the Catatonic Servant Girl, the Leader and the Barkeep.

In the real world there were a number of sources of attention on the LoK series in the post-E3 landscape, with the Omen discovery and Phil Elliot's apparent support of an LoK revival through the Square-Enix collective – both of which were covered in the last update. Since then a lot of attention was directed at Crystal Dynamics for giving the series several names drops and highlights as part of their 25th Anniversary celebrations, culminating in Soul Reaver and Defiance being live streamed and featured in promotional videos – with a few fans somewhat over-reacting and expecting a full revival, despite similar attention being heaped on other CD franchises. Eventually this was revealed to be simply Crystal honouring their past series and it was once again confirmed that no development was in process at the time. This was not the end of the drama however as Phil Elliot once again confirmed his openness for LoK to be used by development teams on the collective, provided the funding and ideas were good. The future development of LoK may be more in the hands of fans than it's ever been before.

Until next time, happy holidays and a happy new year. Baziel (talk) 18:28, December 17, 2017 (UTC)