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GDC 2021: Navigating player behaviors and cheating in online video games
GDC 2021 has now offered several panels on player behavior and cheating that are aimed at devs but still provide some good information for...
GDC 2021: Research on online video game voice chat has come a long way
Covering studies about video gamers often reveals a glaring problem with the science on the topic: Most of it looks has traditionally surveyed text...
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...
Lawful Neutral: Defining toxicity in the MMO industry
One of my earliest memories from World of Warcraft isn't really a positive one. It was in back in the Wrath days. My guild...
Perfect Ten: Worst MMO expansion names of all time
Back when Daybreak announced that EverQuest's 19th expansion would be titled Rain of Fear, I instantly found myself tripping over the name. I shouldn't...
Perfect Ten: 10 reasons you’d never want to live in an MMORPG
Escapism and daydreams are, in my opinion, wonderful and part of what fuels our creativity and excitement. I mean, most of us probably engage...
The Game Archaeologist: Anarchy Online, from development to beta
We all have stories of our very first MMORPG experiences, and the one that I often share is that my initial dip into this...
Star Trek Online showcases two new ships in a livestream and sees its latest PC patch eat up character slots (again)
Star Trek Online held another Ten Forward Weekly livestream yesterday that had a couple of announcements to share with players. First, the stream confirmed...
Desert Oasis: Black Desert’s Atoraxxian dungeon is a good idea, but will it last?
Burger and Fries, Mario and Luigi, Garfunkel and Oates. Are there any other iconic pairs? Oh yeah! RPGs and dungeons. Be it the sprawling...
Enter to win a Star Trek Online Klothos and Klingon Personnel Package key and Bat’leth No Touch Tool
Star Trek Online fans are surely busy with their captains in the game's House United patch that just rolled out last week. But maybe...
NetEase launches new cross-platform sci-fi multiplayer online title Infinite Lagrange
NetEase is launching a new online game today: It's called Infinite Lagrange, and it's a multiplayer sci-fi strategy simulation title with a noticeable EVE...
EVE Online teams up with the University of Iceland to offer an online course about digital friendship
EVE Online is an MMO that has traditionally struggled to reconcile its massive player-led charity efforts and citizen science initiatives with extreme playerbase toxicity...
EVE Online is declared immortal, draws scientists to its Project Discovery system, reveals a space cult
There's quite the cocktail of news pieces floating out there in relation to EVE Online as that headline would suggest, so we'll collect them...
Multiplayer colony-building survival title CryoFall has officially stepped out of early access
This past Thursday saw a significant milestone achieved by the large-scale multiplayer survival colony builder CryoFall, which left early access after two years and...
Not So Massively: Checking up on multiplayer RTS Iron Harvest 1920
Last fall, this column covered Iron Harvest 1920, an alternate history RTS with a strong multiplayer emphasis and surprisingly poignant story-telling. Once I got...
New UK research finds opening lootboxes is ‘structurally and psychologically akin’ to gambling
The mountain of research-based evidence against lootboxes has had another leaflet added to the pile. A recent report from researchers at the universities of...
Stick and Rudder: Five potentially stupid yet fun Elite Dangerous spaceship builds
Even though I've logged a total of 112 hours of Elite: Dangerous at the time of this writing, I'm still pretty much a noob...
The MOP Up: Destiny 2 sanctions unorthodox raiding
Just because the devs think you're going to play the game one way doesn't mean that players aren't going to pour a whole lot...
Star Trek Online podcast to introduce Gene Roddenberry’s son to the MMO
When you have a dad who created one of the most famous scifi IPs of all time, you best ride those coattails all the...
Star Trek Online fans agitate to bring Leonard Nimoy-voiced missions back to the game
Leonard Nimoy's contribution to the Star Trek fandom cannot possibly be overstated, so bearing that in mind, it makes sense that fans of Star...
