mental health
GDC 2021: Accessibility in gaming means innovation for everyone
You may have noticed that accessibility comes up a lot whenever we cover GDC, and GDC 2021 won't be much different. However, while presentations...
PAX East 2021: Gaming streamers are frontline workers, not mental health experts
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...
MMO Business Roundup: EA’s executive compensation, Facebook’s Oculus shenanigans, KRAFTON’s IPO
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news!
Electronic Arts is still awful: Remember how EA shareholders voted against its compensation...
Daybreak grants all of its employees a paid ‘unplug day’
While it's important for us here at MOP to be a watchdog for bad company behavior, we also try to be fair in acknowledging...
Guild Wars 2 offers free promotional items as part of Suicide Prevention Month
September is Suicide Prevention Month, which is not really an event that you celebrate in the conventional sense. It's an event worthy of note, however,...
Not So Massively: Kind Words is one of the most intense games I’ve ever played
In these trying times, I think we're all dealing with a certain degree of anxiety and loneliness. For some of us, feeling worried and...
Warframe of Mind: The mental health implications of Chains of Harrow
Previously on Warframe of Mind I extolled the virtues of Warframe’s Chains of Harrow mission. It definitely deserved praise: I loved the spooky, intense...
For Science: A deeper look at the Proteus effect and Toronto’s game dev mental health summit
We once more have a couple of science and gaming news pieces to share, so let's bundle them up like last time and get...
Sci-fi strategy MMORPG Destiny’s Sword is seeking $22K on Kickstarter
We've been covering Destiny's Sword for over a year now, since we first took a curious peek back at GDC 2018 and followed it...
Exclusive dev diary: Destiny’s Sword explores mental health as MMO gameplay
Back at PAX East this year, our own Eliot Lefebvre checked out a weird and wonderful new MMORPG called Destiny's Sword. It's a tactical...
