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GDC 2021 has now offered several panels on player behavior and cheating that are aimed at devs but still provide some good information for...

Covering studies about video gamers often reveals a glaring problem with the science on the topic: Most of it looks has traditionally surveyed text...

Since PAX East 2021 is virtual again due to that little virus that's been going around for over a year now, it should come...

One of my earliest memories from World of Warcraft isn't really a positive one. It was in back in the Wrath days. My guild...

Raph Koster, the game designer behind Ultima Online, Star Wars Galaxies, and Playable Worlds' upcoming project, has posted yet another essay about MMORPG design,...

Twitch is changing its hateful conduct and harassment policy once again, this time to allow moderators to take into account problematic activity that occurs...

The mountain of research-based evidence against lootboxes has had another leaflet added to the pile. A recent report from researchers at the universities of...

Playable Worlds' Raph Koster is back with another blog post that serves as a tip-off for what kind of MMORPG he and his team...

Five years ago - yes, it's been that long! - we did an Overthinking in which our staff all took Quantic's survey to see...

IT-centric Splunk's .conf is not generally an event we cover here on MOP, but the .conf20 edition held back in October had a presentation of...

It's now become a long-running tradition on Massively OP to track science-related and science-adjacent stories that touch on the MMORPG world, but this past...

Here's something that might bake your noodle: A new study suggests that children playing violent video games cooperatively such as Fortnite are actually more...

We've got another leaflet of evidence on the already towering pile of research suggesting no link between video game violence and aggressive behavior. A...

The pushback against lockboxes in gaming in the UK continues in spite of the matter not exactly making non-stop headlines. A new study from...

Moderating a game's text chat isn't easy by any means, but at least there are a variety of tools and algorithms that try to...

When you have an analog stick to control the camera, does pushing the stick forward tilt the camera up or down? The Guardian published...

The behavior of people in online games does not appear to be improving for the better. According to national survey results from the Anti-Defamation...

A new University of Oxford study published this week suggests that there's a "positive relation between game play and well-being." The paper itself hasn't been...

Let's all ignore the 15 weeks' worth of explosions, bubbles, and fighting going on in EVE Online and instead talk about friendship. Or more...

What is the deadliest video game in existence? If a scientific whitepaper is to be believed, at least in the case of Tippecanoe County,...