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SuperData’s mid-2017 report reflects a wildly expanding gaming industry
Gaming analysis firm SuperData is touting a new report for marketers today, shedding some light on the shape of the industry so far in...
MMO researcher Nick Yee is ‘dispeling myths about female gamers’
Quantic Foundry researcher and long-time MMO academic Nick Yee has an intriguing blog post out this week titled Dispelling Myths about Female Gamers in...
SuperData’s new report suggests multiplayer console gamers are more susceptible to DLC and RMT than ever
Gamers talk a big talk about horse armor DLC and pay-to-win and the evils of cash shops, but y'all keep buying anyway.
That's according to...
Monetization expert: MMOs are dying because of clueless design, not insufficient demand
MMORPG players just love it when somebody declares the MMORPG dead, right? All those games you're playing, all the games we're writing about and...
EVE Online’s July release furthers exoplanet research, revamps T3 strategic cruisers
Happy July patch day, capsuleers! Yep, EVE Online's July release is now live. The patch includes "one of the most extensive and largest rebalances...
EVE Online puts players to work sorting through new exoplanet data
The space explored by players in EVE Online is far beyond our own solar system, but here in the real world we're still struggling...
MMORPG founding father Richard Bartle establishes new unplayer matrix
Dr Richard Bartle, best known to MMORPG players for establishing the research that ultimately led to the admittedly flawed but widely quoted "Bartle test,"...
How Star Citizen uses science to build out its galaxy
This week's episode of Star Citizen Around the Verse sees Cloud Imperium's Chris Roberts and Eric Kieron Davis bookending Foundry 42, Ship Shape, and...
Another study finds Pokemon Go improves players’ physical activity
Yet another academic group has published research suggesting that Pokemon Go can be a useful tool for promoting exercise.
Duke University researchers funded by the...
Leaderboard: Almost half of e-sports viewers don’t even play the games they’re spectating
It may sound crazy, but a huge number of people who pour eyeball time and money into e-sports don't even play the games they're...
University researchers harness Pokemon Go for education
Researchers continue to find new ways to make Pokemon Go dance for science. In a new paper, Iowa State University's Emily Howell suggests that...
Overwatch: Hero leaks, lockbox probabilities, and Korean political humor
As Asian countries are cracking down on online games with lockbox gambling, gaming companies are complying with transparency. To wit: Blizzard's Chinese Overwatch website...
Academics and addiction experts weigh in on ‘pay-to-loot’ gambleboxes and lockboxes
"Pay-to-win" is old news now -- game designers' new plan for hoovering all the cash out of our wallets is "pay-to-loot."
According to IGN's Nathan...
Leaderboard: Are you part of SuperData’s cohort of ‘gaming video content viewers’?
SuperData released a report this week arguing that the video gaming video content business is booming, even "outpacing earnings from some traditional sports leagues."...
What virtual reality immersion researchers are up to will ‘shock’ you – literally
OK, virtual reality fans and frenemies, here's a fun thought process: How do you simulate haptic feedback when your arms are waving around in...
Study claims playing Pokemon Go is associated with happiness attributes
A research team from the University of Wisconsin–Madison has a paper out this month purporting to show that Pokemon Go play essentially makes people happier,...
EVE Fanfest 2017: EVE Online joins the hunt for exoplanets through Project Discovery
The scientific community has been buzzing lately with the incredible news that a star system less than 40 lightyears away named TRAPPIST-1 was found...
SuperData predicts huge gains for virtual reality over the next four years
SuperData was rather famously quoted all throughout the industry at the end of 2016 following its research-backed proclamation that virtual reality was the "biggest...
SuperData examines gambling practices across the online gaming industry
Gambling in video games has been a huge topic for devoted MMORPG players over the last year or so, as core MMOs like Guild...
Introducing the Massively Overpowered Objectivity Guide and App
Friends, enemies, ladies, gentlemen, morphean blobs, and colours out of space, we know that the most pressing question on your mind when you read...
