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World of Warcraft has become a very dump-on-able game lately, and Blizzard isn't making it any harder, as a tweet the company sent out...

Riot Games is not a gaming company most folks in our industry would consider a paragon of community in or off the court. The...

The Psychology of Video Games podcast recently did a bit on "murder hobos," and yes, Dr Jamie Madigan does point out that the term...

What's a feedback loop? And, more importantly, why should MMO players care about them? According to Playable Worlds' Raph Koster, this part of game...

Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! Improbable: Back in January, CNBC did a big story on Improbable, the massive Herman...

If you've never been hit in the face, you're not really prepared for when someone does it, much less when it's a fist instead...

When last we checked in on Destiny's Sword, it was back in June, when 2Dogs Games admitted that COVID-19 had slowed the game's progress...

A couple of weeks ago, MMO developer Mark Kern tweeted a controversial claim about how challenge and interactivity is the point of games (and...

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 World Health Organization has officially adopted a revision to its International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11) to include "Gaming...

Over the holidays, I bumped into some great video material from author and YouTuber Caleb Ross that seems useful for online gamers in particular....

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?...

A blog post on The Psychology of Video Games blog a few weeks ago seems relevant to our interests: It explores the "pleasure paradox," which...

Last month, as part of our ongoing dialogue about video games and violence, we covered a brand-new paper that found that playing video games...

I love stories. Maybe it's the teacher in me, but I love stories not just for their raw entertainment value, but for their ability...

"It's as easy as one, two, insert your credit card number here!" So begins the parody at the beginning of the first of two...

We here at Massively OP can't get rid of lockboxes, but by gum, we're not going to roll over and give up on fighting...

We've previously discussed that according to the Manual of Mental Disorders and the industry standard Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, gaming addiction isn't a...

Getting five batches of 100 gold feels better than one batch of 500 gold, and being forced to spend three separate 100 gold fees...