From stress relief to self-discovery: UW researchers reveal the deeper impact of video games

When I was a kid, my mom used to call my Nintendo the “anti-social idiot box.” The widespread assumption back… Read More ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

Break open a dead MMO and find what goofs and horrors await in Gorgon's Garden

Gorgon's Garden is about a fictitious, dead MMO, and the horrors that await you when you play it again for the first time in ...

A game jam game about pudgy chainsmoking dads seems to be Steam's latest co-op hit, hitting 100,000 concurrent players on its first weekend

Mabutts Valley with cheeky physics puzzles. PC Gamer features producer Mollie Taylor was among that player count earlier this week, and in her impressions said "things are a little janky right now" ...
IFLScience

Video Game Study Found Out What People Do When The World Ends, And It’s Exactly What You’d Expect

The team analyzed over 270 million records of player behaviors in the game, such as leveling-up data and quest logs, to see ...
Game Rant

Popular World of Warcraft Addon Is 'On Hold' for Midnight

One of World of Warcraft's top player mods is pausing its future development due to controversial changes coming in the ...
MMOBomb

What Kind Of Impact Will Duet Night Abyss’ Monetization Have On Gacha Games?

And while I’m not sure that Warframe’s monetization makes them as much money as the big gacha developers have been making on ...