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Earlier this week, we wrote about Skyrim's "gaming grandma" and other older gamers who've staked out claims in the online gaming space on platforms...

Since becoming MassivelyOP, our staff has worked hard to buff up our gaming science-related articles. Last year, we noted that our pile of science...

Yes, we're back on this again. The subject of video games, violent content, and their affect on players is arriving once more, this time...

You know what the surest sign of an MMO's popularity is? Whether or not World of Warcraft fans are defensive about its popularity. That apparently...

Maybe I'm showing my old-school nature here, but loading screens don't bother me all that much. I cut my MMO teeth on games like...

Business business business! We're back for another speedy Friday afternoon roundup of some MMO and games industry business news. Amazon's next big thing We're not sure...

Many times in a sandbox game, you have to make your own fun and set your own challenges. One such challenge in Elite: Dangerous...

Academics have found a way to make the media and politicians' spurious blame of video games for real-world violence look even worse than it...

When the Harvard Business Review wanted to run a study on how people's place of origin affects how they structure a company, it homed...

Back in July, we covered a Stetson University paper for a study that examined over 3000 Singaporean primary and secondary school students over the...

We're all familiar with the "surprise mechanics" incident, the absurdist argument in defense of lootboxes from EA's VP of legal and government affairs Kerry...

We once more have a couple of science and gaming news pieces to share, so let's bundle them up like last time and get...

The UI. It's such an intrinsic part of video gaming that we very often don't pay it any attention, except for when it's awful...

We're probably preaching to the choir with this one, but did you know that there is still no proven link between video games and...

The most recent episode of The Psychology of Video Games podcast touches on a subject we don't tackle very much: moral choices. It's an...

Most if not all of us pretty much felt the same way Dr. Daniel King, senior research assistant from the School of Psychology at...

Our newsroom is overflowing with interesting academic papers relevant to gaming - let's round a few up, shall we? First, we've got Unfair play? Video...

We've been keeping an eye on MMO colony sim Seed - the SpatialOS one, not this one - for a few years now, in...

It seems we have another one of these papers every few months, and each time we cover them we get comments and tweets that...

So far, I'm not afraid of the Singularity happening if the best AI can do is translate things horribly and create stumbling idiots for...