New Scientist presented an article reviewing the potential of games and gamers.
One quote, attributed to Edward Castronova, caught my attention:
“For a lot of people, contemporary reality sucks. And everybody wants to be a hero [...] That person is looking at this choice: I could either work in a coffee-shop or be a starship [...]
January 18, 2010 – 1:43 pm
Yesterday I mentioned an article in the h+ Magazine about Dr. Byron Reeves who proposes that aspects of online multiplayer games may be useful in solving real world business problems.
The article linked Part 1 of 2 of a presentation, “Work Sucks – Games are Great”, given by Dr. Reeves. Part 2 is perhaps even [...]
January 17, 2010 – 3:22 pm
As seen on /., h+ Magazine has published an article, “Turning Work into Play with Online Games”, wherein Dr. Byron Reeves, a professor at Stanford University, relates how elements of MMORPG’s may have value in solving real-world business problems.
“Byron Reeves’ research suggests that online gaming can provide workplace benefits well beyond e-learning. He took [...]
December 28, 2009 – 12:43 pm
As some of you may be aware, I’ve returned to school to get an MBA. This particular MBA program comes with a heavy workload. I haven’t had time to play or blog in months. Not being one to quietly acquiesce, I’ve tried to find opportunities to combine education and my passion for MMORPG’s.
One such [...]
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I’ve said it before, and you can’t stop me from blathering about it again: I’m shamefully hooked on Facebook-style “light RPGs.” But I have one gripe.
I don’t like being hard-blocked by my network size.
I’m a big advocate of leveraging social networks in online games, whether that’s because your game is built to layer [...]
I recently finished the Master Scholar Quest in LotRO for an alt. This was the last quest gating completion of Scholar crafting up until Supreme Master Scholar.
I had carefully wound my way from Esteldin across Nan Amlug towards the canyons of Angmar, stopping only at Aughaire to greet the Stable Master (easy return trips!). [...]
February 27, 2009 – 11:40 am
So Darkfall is having some troubles launching. I think this was predicted. (Not a hard prediction to make.)
This dude has a real need to pick on Adventurine about it. The best theory is that it’s payback for all those times he was ganked in UO.
Quoting the Lum …
But now, it’s shipped. And as [...]
February 24, 2009 – 11:32 am
Great short post on twinking over at Eating Bees:
So, every game seems to think that powerleveling is somehow bad and sad and god kills a kitten whenever a twink dings without suffering. Therefore, there’s always some code to prevent a low level guy from getting all the experience if a high level guy does any [...]
