Sigil and Vanguard

His new game, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, opened on Jan. 30. But in a surprising twist Mr. McQuaid isn’t pinning his hopes on appealing to World of Warcraft’s millions of casual players. Instead, Vanguard is a gamer’s game. While World of Warcraft uses a cartoony visual style that runs fine on slower computers, Vanguard can humble even the beefiest PC with its emphasis on fantasy realism and its huge, richly detailed virtual universe. Where the older game tries to impress with its accessibility, Vanguard is about more complexity, more choices. In short Mr. McQuaid is bucking the conventional wisdom of a $2 billion industry.

- NY Times story

This is a very gushy 3-page article on McQuaid's magnum opus.

I very much wanted to play the beta and at launch, but other factors derailed those plans.