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GDC’s 2024 industry survey: Game devs weigh in on AI, layoffs, unionization, RTO, and more

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Every year, GDC conducts an industry-wide survey of game developers and compiles the results in its State of the Game Industry, the 2024 edition...

Study finds social media game ads don’t properly disclose the existence of lockboxes and in-game purchases

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A recent study conducted by legal expert and lockbox researcher Leon Y. Xiao has been completed and it finds that lockbox disclosures in social...
Never quest.

A look back at the MMO and gaming science topics of 2023

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This month marks MOP's ninth consecutive year covering science-related news specific to MMORPGs and MMOs, but like last year, there wasn't nearly as much...

Video game trade association says most people want video games for Christmas, huh

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When I asked my kids to write me out their Christmas wish lists this year, they both turned in lists with games and game...

What’s the most cost-effective inventory option in Lord of the Rings Online? One blogger’s done the math

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Lord of the Rings Online blogger and guide-maker extraordinaire FibroJedi has pubbed a super useful post this week we just have to highlight because...

Quantic Foundry’s survey examines the motivations of gamers drawn to sci-fi settings

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Quantic Foundry - aka the Nick Yee-backed analytics company that's most well-known for its Gamer Motivation Model - has shared some responses from an...

Diablo IV serves up ‘Nightmare Fuel’ audio experience in order to induce thematic lucid dreaming

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The marketing team behind Diablo IV continues to prove it's either extremely creative or taking some extremely powerful substances. The latest marketing stunt from...
This looks... boring.

Lawful Neutral: Reverse engineering World of Warcraft’s subscriber numbers

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Do you know what time it is? It's almost quarterly financial report time! We probably won't see a full quarterly report from Activision-Blizzard as...
Nope.

MMO Business Roundup: MY.GAMES’ CEO, Valve’s antitrust fine, and research on China’s gaming regulations

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Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business news. Numbers numbers numbers. In fact, this edition has the whole trifecta: business,...
Skeleton dance forever.

Hunters lead the pack for deaths on World of Warcraft Classic’s hardcore realms

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All right, how many of you found out the hard way that Feign Death turns into actual death if you don't interrupt it before...

EVE Fanfest 2023: EVE players will help cure cancer with new Project Discovery minigame

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Back in 2016, EVE Online developer CCP Games announced an unusual partnership with scientific research organisation MMOs and the Human Protein Atlas. They created...

Unity adds AI tools to its asset store while Electronic Arts reasons AI generation is a ‘co-pilot’ for artists

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The fresh blood in the games industry water continues to be AI generation tools for art assets and writing. This time we zero in...

Lawful Neutral: How might the so-called AI revolution affect the MMO genre?

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This article has been rolling around in my head since ChatGPT rocketed into the public awareness a few months ago, and just in the...

World of Warships kicks off ocean conservation charity collab with Popeye for Force Blue

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This might just be the weirdest thing we've ever gotten in the mail at MOP, and I say this as someone who once inexplicably...

Preserving Worlds is an indie TV docuseries about preserving classic MMORPGs

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So here's something fun we just learned about thanks to a friendly tweet: Preserving Worlds is a 2021 indie TV show on Means TV...
I vant you to keel tunnel moose.

Vague Patch Notes: Why do people remember an MMO past that didn’t exist?

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Let's just start with the premise out of the gate. World of Warcraft launched to sales of 240,000 units on its first day. The...

Raph Koster predicts the future of the metaverse is a ‘virtual Machu Picchu’ – that you can leave

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If you're not exhausted of seeing the word "metaverse" just yet, MMORPG developer Raph Koster has published a blessedly brief whitepaper on the evolution...

For Science: Crit-Rate is another survey-driven attempt to match gamer personalities to games

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I have to admit I almost deleted the press release for this story without reading it, but my finger twitched, and let me tell...

Could an AI bot do a better job as a games company CEO than an actual human?

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That headline's not an idle question: Chinese gaming company NetDragon decided to give it a try. Last August, NetDragon, which runs multiple MMOs including...

The Daily Grind: Do you experience MMO ‘expansion endorphins’?

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Back in December, MOP's Justin wrote an article about being excited to play World of Warcraft Dragonflight, and in that piece, he wondered whether...

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