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Extra Credits explains Bartle’s Taxonomy and its application

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The generally excellent Extra Credits series occasionally touches on MMORPGs and their various systems has a pair of new videos out that might be...

Exploring ‘The Video Game Debate’: Online games and internet addiction

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Massively OP's overview of Rachel Kowert and Thorsten Quandt's book The Video Game Debate last month was just the beginning of our coverage of the...

Exploring ‘The Video Game Debate’: Modern online game research

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Late last year, I published on Massively-that-was a set of articles addressing current research on the relationship between shyness and online game friendships, including a...

Eco as an academic tool: Educating with PvE survival and permadeath

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Like the idea of survival games, but not PvP? Wish your class involved video games? Maybe you want to doom humanity to choking itself...

Hearthstone dominates digital CCG market with $20M monthly sales

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As the digital card game market continues to outpace its physical counterpart, Hearthstone is coming out on top as one of the dominant forces...

SuperData’s Van Dreunen on tomorrow’s Heroes of the Storm launch

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Tomorrow's the big day for Blizzard's entry into the crowded and uber-competitive MOBA market. Heroes of the Storm officially launches on June 2nd, and...
This was not actually complex.

Elite: Dangerous generates its galaxy with NASA data

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Elite: Dangerous is a work of science fiction; that's not under discussion. So as in all science fiction, the developers just created a galaxy by selecting...

EVE Evolved: How many subscriptions does EVE have?

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Two weeks ago, a mathemagician over at The Nosy Gamer published some interesting calculations showing that EVE Online's subscriptions may have dropped by around...
I'm sure somebody thinks that's neat!

Star Citizen’s sound designer weighs in on sound in space

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In space, no one can hear you scream. Or yell, or fart, or blow up another ship. Sound doesn't travel well in a vacuum,...

Researcher studies City of Heroes memorymaking

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City of Heroes players, did you ever think your beloved old world would be the subject of academic research? Olle Sköld from Uppsala University...

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