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So-called gaming addiction and Fortnite myopia aren’t just a problem for The Children
If you're over that whole lockbox politics thing, you can always fall back on the moral panic that's gripping parents and teachers instead: video...
Nearly a third of the kids surveyed in the UK Gambling Commission’s study admitted to buying lockboxes
The UK Gambling Commission's Young People & Gambling 2018 report was released this month with disturbing statistics for the role gambling is apparently playing...
For Science: Why ‘screentime’ is a useless measure of media consumption
A few weeks ago, my eyes skimmed over a discussion some of our commenters were having about video game science - I can't even...
International regulators co-sign declaration to investigate lockboxes and skin gambling
If you thought Belgium and The Netherlands were going to keep on standing alone in the fight against lootboxes, you were very much mistaken,...
UK divorce firm says Fortnite and other online games contributed to 5% of this year’s divorces
Are people getting divorced over Fortnite? Or does a UK divorce website deserve a medal for SEO trick of the year? Why not both? A...
UK researchers identify link between lootboxes and problem gambling
Are lockboxes just another form of gambling? That depends on which government entity, scientist, lawyer, or doctor you ask. But maybe the question we...
Tencent’s market value dropped by $20B following new Chinese gaming regulation plans
Earlier this month, there was a flurry of news about the state of game publishing in China. You'll recall that Monster Hunter World ran...
For Science: How gaming addiction is influenced by emotion and pride
Video game addiction isn't as easy to treat as heroin addiction. That's one of the big takeaways from a recent Reddit AMA with a...
Citizen science for the win: How EVE Online’s playerbase contributed to Human Project Atlas research
Over the last several years, CCP Games has teamed up with different science organizations and put EVE Online players to work with in-game activities...
WVU researchers post survey seeking input on video game character avatars
I suspect that most MMO players, especially the sort who hang out on forums and blogs and care deeply about the games they play,...
The Daily Grind: How do you define ‘hardcore’ gaming?
Quantic Foundry's latest report from its gamer motivation study is well worth your time to read, but for this morning's Daily Grind, I want...
What made Fortnite so ridiculously popular? Anticipation is baked into both the loot and the gameplay, says one psychologist
Over the weekend, I was chatting with the mom of my son's friend and let slip that I'm a video game blogger. Her reaction?...
Three quarters of European gamers don’t even understand what the heck lootboxes are
A new report on GIbiz suggests that most gamers are pretty darn clueless about lootboxes, which probably won't surprise anyone reading here. Researchers for the...
Journalists and academics clash over the World Health Organization’s ‘gaming disorder’ classification
Ever since the World Health Organization decided it will include its "gaming disorder" classification in its upcoming disease classification manual revision, game journalists, mainstream...
Fortnite: Pollsters and academics examine purchases, pay-to-win, and motivation vs. addiction
Remember the old adage that less than 10% of a free-to-play playerbase pay for the other 90%? A poll conducted by LendEDU and Pollfish...
Video game industry groups across the globe reject WHO’s ‘gaming disorder’ classification
As we noted yesterday, the World Health Organization has gone ahead with the inclusion of "gaming disorder" in the publication of its most recent...
The World Health Organization advances its ‘gaming disorder’ classification in spite of heavy criticism
The World Health Organization has gone ahead with the inclusion of "gaming disorder" in the publication of its most recent edition of its disease...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG would you want to ‘live’ in if you had to live there forever?
MOP reader Oleg suggested today's Daily Grind in the bowels of the mystified comments under our piece on Entropia Universe on Wednesday. In a...
Entropia Universe studio wants to let us live on forever inside an MMO – literally
If you're a fan of Altered Carbon or Westworld, you're going to love what MindArk says it's working on: The Entropia Universe studio aims...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG features the most ‘hostile design’?
Last week, the Extra Credits crew did a feature on hostile architecture aka unpleasant design - a way of papering over a problem in...
