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The Federation's past is meeting its future this week with the rollout of Awakening for Star Trek Online. Set in the "present" timeline of...

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

We're all familiar with the "surprise mechanics" incident, the absurdist argument in defense of lootboxes from EA's VP of legal and government affairs Kerry...

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...

The UI. It's such an intrinsic part of video gaming that we very often don't pay it any attention, except for when it's awful...

Ever wished Tyria could fit in your pocket? That dream could one day become a reality. A couple of weeks ago, we heard rumblings...

Part of the holy mission of the Game Archaeologist is to ferret out the roots of history that ultimately led to MMORPGs as we...

We're probably preaching to the choir with this one, but did you know that there is still no proven link between video games and...

What goes on with NPCs when you're not looking? Egocentric adventurers think that they're sitting around, sharpening blades, and preparing their spellbooks for encounters,...

The most recent episode of The Psychology of Video Games podcast touches on a subject we don't tackle very much: moral choices. It's an...

As Fortnite players now well know, things are getting pretty wacky with the timestream in the game's world, and no more is that apparent...

Most if not all of us pretty much felt the same way Dr. Daniel King, senior research assistant from the School of Psychology at...

Going from your mild-mannered alter ego to your superpowered persona is the most important thing you can do in any superheroic MMORPG. Ship of...

The identity of your Star Trek Online spaceship is pretty important; it determines the kind of abilities you have access to during space combat,...

Do you remember when H1Z1 used to be about surviving the zombie apocalypse? Yeah, me neither. In any case, gear up and slide behind...

Can a spaceship be blown up with one shot to its propellant tank? Can you make armor out of random pieces of scrap? Do...

Our newsroom is overflowing with interesting academic papers relevant to gaming - let's round a few up, shall we? First, we've got Unfair play? Video...

We've been keeping an eye on MMO colony sim Seed - the SpatialOS one, not this one - for a few years now, in...

It seems we have another one of these papers every few months, and each time we cover them we get comments and tweets that...

As I was writing our Lawful Neutral expose of Nerd Kingdom a few weeks ago, I was pretty bothered by the conduct of the...