Mental Illness In Video Games
Ian Mahar posted an excellent article over on Kotaku recently detailing the portrayal of the mentally ill in video games. The article raises many important points that are equally applicable […]
Ian Mahar posted an excellent article over on Kotaku recently detailing the portrayal of the mentally ill in video games. The article raises many important points that are equally applicable […]
Following the recent datamining of an XP boost available in the most recent PTR build of World of Warcraft, rumors of imminent microtransactions in our favourite MMO were bound to […]
Apologies for the lack of updates but I had been putting the finishing touches on my master’s thesis, which is now complete and submitted so I should be back to […]
In my last post I took a look at the recent events over in Neverwinter, and the relationship between developers, players and Betas. This issue is one that a lot of […]
About a month ago I signed up for the Neverwinter closed beta, the Dungeons and Dragons free to play MMO from Perfect World. Much like my Age of Wushu beta […]
There is a masterpiece of an anime by Yoshitoshi Abe called ‘Serial Experiments Lain’ (creator of the equally brilliant Haibane Renmei). The anime follows Lain Iwakura, a high school girl […]
Guild drama has been a consistent guilty pleasure of mine ever since I started playing MMO’s. Guilds are after all small communities of people that take on certain political and […]
In a recent post on this issue we looked at Tolbaru’s taxonomy of cheating in online games and focused our discussion on what he identified as they grey area of ‘game specific’ […]
Recently we looked at the case of Paragon’s Devai being banned live on stream for no reason at all. In the article, I wondered about the use of Blizzard’s, essentially, […]
Continuing in this series we have been looking at the grey areas of cheating and exploiting in MMO’s and how this creates difficulties in trying to place definitions on these […]