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Not So Massively: Islands of Insight, Headbangers, 33 Immortals, & Baldur’s Gate 3
Hopefully you were outside touching grass this weekend and not glued to your computer screen, and if so, you missed a few new game...
GDC 2021: Navigating player behaviors and cheating in online video games
GDC 2021 has now offered several panels on player behavior and cheating that are aimed at devs but still provide some good information for...
The Soapbox: Abusing MMO community reps over design decisions is not only toxic but futile
Recently, an online video game community rep was run off Twitter by "fans." The CM's fellow game dev shared how upset she was that...
The Daily Grind: What obligations do studios have to provide a griefing-free MMO environment?
There's some interesting stuff to be unpacked in a recent analysis of Conan Exiles that characterizes it as replete with griefing, racism, sexism, and general unmoderated...
MMO studios form Justice League-style alliance to combat toxicity
After years of trying to crack the serious issue of negative behavior and toxicity among their individual communities, 30 game studios and industry leaders are...
The Daily Grind: What’s your unhealthiest real-life habit brought on by MMOs?
I've always had a hard time going to sleep at a reasonable hour. MMOs, though, have helped make that functionally impossible for me. It...
Top-ranked League of Legends player is banned from event based on toxic behavior
The usual trajectory in professional sports seems to be that no matter how noxious you are as a person, it's all ignored if you...
Blizzard is quietly fighting Overwatch toxicity
If you've started to notice that the community in Overwatch has started to turn vicious in the past few weeks, you're not alone.
In an...
