Archive for March, 2010

PC Gamer’s top 11 MMO’s

PC Gamer puts out the top 11 MMO’s in their April 2010 issue. Each game is accompanied by the basic plot, problems, improvements and tips on how to get started the right way. The top MMO list: AION: Tower of Eternity EVE Online Fallen Earth Everquest II: Sentinel’s Fate Wurm Champions Online The Lord of [ READ MORE ]

Console Vs. Computer MMOs

I was looking through video game news recently and came across a very surprising fact. In the list of upcoming Xbox 360 titles Star Wars the Old Republic pop up and started an article here on massively .com: http://www.massively.com/2010/03/29/is-the-old-republic-heading-to-xbox-360/. Which got me thinking, how do companies and players deal with PC to Console MMO’s. In [ READ MORE ]

JStor goes to Padre

Spring Break ’10 is already here, hard to believe I know, but time flies when *you’re having fun,* however that may be!  Anyway, I have been thinking about how to approach the WRI for the rest of the semester (in order to fulfill the class credits!).  I have been researching on Jstor articles and studies [ READ MORE ]

Chasing the Dragon…

MMORPGS as we all know are notorious for their “addictive” game-play. But we as MMORPG gamers know from personal experience that while some games draw us in and never let go, others never seem to interact with us that deeply. In my case it started with my first MMO: Final Fantasy XI. I was a [ READ MORE ]

Bad Company 2, the FPS, & participation

Who’s played it yet?  C’mon, it’s pretty cool, let me say… but what I think is interesting about the new Battlefield is that this FPS, i think, is furthering the bounds of its own particular virtual world.  The first Call of Duty (remember back to before xfire & punkbuster were implemented!) set the stage for [ READ MORE ]

Beta-Testing Blues

Hello All! This is Smiling Tanner, the Irish guy on the World Play Research staff here to talk to you about my recent outreach. Lately I have been trying to get the word out about the World Play Initiative in Beta games to see if getting information in on the ground floor would help enlarge [ READ MORE ]

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