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This year's State of the Game Industry from GDC - its 11th since beginning the project - delivers a range of insights from the...

I suspect most long-time MMORPG gamers can point to a useful skill, contact, or experience in gaming that helped them in their careers or...

Academics offered up another good reason to play video games this past October: A new study of around 2000 kids found that video game...

Back in 2014, something happened in the gaming space, something whose impact was so damaging that even almost 10 years later, I realize that...

There are toxic people in games chat, and then there are people who use video gaming platforms as a ways to encourage extremism and...

Bloomberg has a deeply disturbing exposé this week on Twitch that demonstrates how the streaming platform intended for video games is being used by...

You've probably seen the declaration that "online friends are real friends" somewhere on the internet a few times, and while that can seem pretty...

Well, I'm sorry to report to multiplayer gamers that despite having online features like New Pokemon Snap, Pokemon Legends: Arceus is very much a solo game,...

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

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...

Earlier in December, I posted some Pokemon Go news that included player complaints about a recent Mr. Rime paid event. While there was a good...

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...

What's better than a science MMO story or a feel-good MMO story? One that's both. And this one is both, as EVE Online and...

So this one's fun. The results of a study performed in the UK between November and December of 2019 have just been released. The...

Do video games make people violent? The dispatch from the APA back in March certainly seems to indicate that it thinks so, which runs...

How has the novel coronavirus pandemic altered the types of games people play, if at all? According to some new survey results from Quantic...

MOP reader Miol recently pointed us to an intriguing academic paper on trolling. Seriously. "Trolls" or "warriors of faith"? Differentiating dysfunctional forms of media...

When the Harvard Business Review wanted to run a study on how people's place of origin affects how they structure a company, it homed...

Back in July, we covered a Stetson University paper for a study that examined over 3000 Singaporean primary and secondary school students over the...