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Massively on the Go: Super Mario Bros. Wonder is pretty wonderful

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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

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Pokemon GO 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

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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

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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?

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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?

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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

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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?

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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...

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