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Choose My Adventure: Shopping for classes in AdventureQuest 3D
So as it turns out, through information granted by a couple of commenters and by the inimitable MJ, the Moglomancer class in AdventureQuest 3D...
GDC Summer 2020: How Astroneer’s crafting balances cognitive load for the player
Long time followers of Astroneer may recall that the game's early development crafting felt cute but incomplete. Despite the game already being in the wild,...
GDC Summer 2020: Roblox, player-generated content, and the ‘metaverse’
Roblox VP of Product Deepak Chandrasekaran held a skill-building talk at GDC Summer 2020 this week titled Building the Metaverse through User Generated Content...
GDC Summer 2020: Gachapon reward models in (mostly) free-to-play games
Let's be real: Some of the panel titles at GDC Summer 2020 are unintentionally misleading. For example, the "Evolution of Gacha Systems in Mobile...
GDC Summer 2020: Pokemon Go’s Niantic offers augmented reality design advice
I was really looking forward to Niantic's AR Game Design 101 panel at GDC Summer 2020 this week because for all my criticisms of...
GDC Summer 2020: What online gaming can (and should) learn from social media’s trainwrecks
The circle is now complete: Social media has mastered skills MMOs and online games haven't, not that social media was paying much attention to...
Massively Overthinking: Changing the mindset of the MMO genre
I recently saw a journalism professor argue that generating a widespread thinking shift in an entire profession can take decades. "You have to keep...
GDC Summer 2020: Immersive multiplayer storytelling with Disney’s Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge
Prior to this whole virus thing, one thing that I was enjoying about MMOs was how they (along with ideas taken from social media)...
GDC Summer 2020: How Niantic adapted Pokemon Go gameplay in the time of COVID-19
GDC Summer 2020 is running all this week, and I'm, well, at home. But much like Pokemon Go, the convention adapted, and while I've...
The Stream Team: Completing concert collection and powering a ranger in AQ3D
The end of the Breaking Benjamin battle concert in AQ3D is eminent, and the conclusions of that 54+ step quest is in sight for...
Choose My Adventure: The absurd tsunami that is AdventureQuest 3D
Let's see... I was flung across the world, I fought an extremely hyperactive unicorn bro, I nearly got defeated by chickens, and I fought...
The Stream Team: Ready for AdventureQuest 3D’s Ranger
Massively OP's MJ is back to the land of internet for a short spell, and you know the first things she wants to do...
Perfect Ten: Ten MMOs I was very wrong about
Here's a not-actually-very-secret bit of honesty about the industry that I have been working in for about a decade now: I am not actually...
Choose My Adventure: How Dungeons and Dragons Online became my new favorite MMO
Week after week in this round of Choose My Adventure, I've been finding little things to love about Dungeons and Dragons Online and this...
The Stream Team: Socially un-distant undead are sieging AQ3D’s Battleon!
So many new things arrived recently in AQ3D that Massively OP's MJ couldn't experience them all at once. Apparently, undead are craving some social...
SoulWorker Anime Legends is available now for mobile devices
If you really enjoy SoulWorker Online but find yourself frustrated that there are times when you have to be away from your desktop and...
AdventureQuest 3D previews the bows coming for the new Ranger class next week
So is archery good or bad? AdventureQuest 3D has decided that it's good, and to that end the game has been developing the new...
The Stream Team: A look at AQ3D’s new Adventure Book of Lore
AQ3D just can't let a week go by without an update (no, seriously, it happens weekly!), and Massively OP's MJ is always curious as...
Games devs discuss how to make games for players 55 and older
Games can (and should) be for everyone, regardless of things like gender identity, race, or even age. That said, there are certain challenges to...
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is adding new Statute of Secrecy training to the game
Need a little more pep in your step while playing Harry Potter: Wizards Unite? The new Statute of Secrecy training is there to deliver...
