raph koster

Regardless of who you believe had the right and wrong of the ArenaNet Twitter fiasco last week, game developers have expressed concern over the...

The release of Raph Koster's monster book of game essays, Postmortems, was of high interest to Bree and me for different reasons. For her,...

In the comments of my piece on Raph Koster's book last week, a commenter brought up the idea that mimicking the real world in...

As RPS reported this week, Valve has taken the relatively unusual step of making your Dota 2 and CSGO report cards semi-public - that is,...

I was a wide-eyed, naive kid when I first stepped into Ultima Online in 1997, and as it turns out, the developers were too. That's...

Justin and Bree discuss E3, Elder Scrolls VI and Online, Fallout 76, Anthem, FFXIV, Black Desert, Bless, LOTRO, and STO, with mailbag questions on Daybreak and the problem with MMO forums.

Raph Koster is certainly a well-known name in the MMORPG industry who has spent his career working on titles such as Ultima Online, Star...

My only nephew is something of a math prodigy, and the fact that he wants to be a game designer when he grows up...

One of the best aspects of all of the new Disney Star Wars films is their references to places, events, and characters outside of...

The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

I'd like to think that I'm kind of a healthy gamer. While MMOs take a lot of time, the nice thing is that their...

Plenty of panels at GDC are recorded and uploaded to the internet weeks after the event, including this one. It's not quite the same...

A renowned game AI designer who worked on EverQuest Next and John Smedley's Hero's Song is the focal point of concern following an accident...

If you'll be at GDC this week (we will!), you're in for a treat, as research from MMORPG designer Raph Koster will be on...

Remember last week when we covered how the Entertainment Software Association is fighting a proposal to amend the DMCA that would help preserve online...

Here is some nightmare fuel for gamers imagining the future of the industry. How about an artificial intelligence that deliberately manipulates and messes with...

Last year, we wrote about the extreme potential for griefing in virtual reality spaces as it's one of MMORPG developer Raph Koster's favorite talking...

If you have an exceptional memory, you might recall that a couple of months ago, Crowfall and Star Wars Galaxies designer Raph Koster wrote...

Most MMORPGs have the core sandbox problem: Whoever gets there first, controls all the toys and has the power to drive everyone else away....

Think of all the wacky things devs have said in public in front of gamers and journalists this year. Now imagine what gets said behind...