It’s been forever since we’ve chanted our Kabaddi chorus. That opportunity is back with Cricket Country’s Kabaddi Fantasy league. You get to play India’s favorite galli game with your friends online and win money while you chant ‘Kabbadi Kabbadi Kabbadi’ behind your mobile screens. Apart...
Last weekend, I was in São Paulo with my friends at Studio Miniboss to join the first edition of SPJam. The event was lots of fun and a success, with almost a hundred entrants and over 20 digital or board games. Our entry, made in the 48 hours of the event, is “Down Goes...
The Belfry is a hub where you will link up with friends and companions to plan your next adventure, but it’s also home to several interesting non-player characters. I met several of them in my limited playtime but didn’t have the opportunity to learn much about them. I asked Jorgensen...
Individual tasks inSea of Thievesare all quite literal, simple, and not demanding. “A lot of MMOs have a level of abstraction in the mechanics that is the complete opposite of what we’re trying to do inSoT,” explained Chapman. “You never are the ship–you’re just a person on the...
This is the point I was trying to get across. Why do builds in GW2 feel so atrocious to fight against? I do not get anywhere near the level of frustration in other MMOs. The only up side to GW2 pvp is there is no gear grind, that is literally the ONE good thing about it, othe...
This isn't the age of MMOs being a Second Job, which I feel is what you want. The original game was a Subscription-based game where some powersets were far more powerful because they were Buy-to-Play sets. It was a horrible mess of a game that was transitioning based on the times....
This approach is fairly consistent with the views of other scholars who have argued that video game play can meet basic developmental needs in children (Olson 2010) or that games such as massively multiplayer on-line games (MMOs) provide basic socialization needs (Barnett and Coulson 2010). Yee...