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SGF 2024: Hands-on with New World’s controversial Aeternum reboot, which is still an MMORPG
How's everyone recovering from all this New World Aeternum news coming out of Summer Games Fest? It's been kind of a confusing time for me, as...
SGF 2024: Amazon discusses New World Aeternum on console, swimming, solo content, and archetypes
In case there's anyone out there still confused: New World Aeternum is not a single player or co-op game. I know the Summer Game Fest announcement of...
SGF 2024: Amazon unveils New World Aeternum, its console relaunch of the MMORPG
Ever wish New World were more cinematic - and more available on more platforms? Well, all of those things will be true come October 15th, 2024,...
Massively on the Go: Super Mario Bros. Wonder is pretty wonderful
Not every game has to be an MMO. Adding more players in certain contexts really can ruin the experience of a game. But at...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s Community Day is still more about catching than community
Pokemon GOÂ finally gave us a good pokemon to catch for Community Day, and I'm happy about that. Really. Had this been 2019, it could...
Massively on the Go: Maybe it’s time Pokemon GO buddies get the Pikachu treatment
As we've been discussing over the last few weeks, Niantic's pursuit of forcing Pokemon Go players out into the world to generate salable data...
Massively on the Go: No one’s talking about May’s Pokemon GO Community Day, and that’s good
Remember how negative players were about as Pokemon Go’s April Stuffel Community Day? And did you see how angry people on social media were about...
The Daily Grind: Do you engage in ‘parallel play’ in MMORPGs?
Thanks to a random Tweet in my timeline a while back, the term "parallel play" has been rattling around in my brain lately. According...
This is why ‘playing alone together’ still makes you feel connected. But is it helping?
Whenever the topic of playing solo in MMORPGs comes up, invariably the expression "playing alone together" is worked into the conversation. This is the...
Exploring real-life PUGs, the Plus, and the antisocial nature of Pokemon Go
Although Pokemon Go isn't advertised as an MMO, both experts and players have noted it does present some interesting similarities: Both have tons of players on servers...
Exploring ‘The Video Game Debate’: Are MMO communities real or fake?
We've come a long way in our discussion of Rachel Kowert and Thorsten Quandt's book The Video Game Debate: Unravelling the Physical, Social, and Psychological...
