If I had to summarize PAX East 2015 with a single utterance, it would be “Brrrrrr!” With temperatures in the 20s and 30s ...

I must, with all due respect, call “Bullshit,” plain and simple, on recent criticisms of the cosplay scene. We come across different viewpoints ...

With 250 million active users, Facebook is a massive presence on the ‘net. Part of what keeps Facebook fresh is the allure of ...

The past few articles we’ve looked at how much skill is involved in MMO game play compared with simply building the best statistical ...

Social networking sites like Bebo, MySpace and Facebook are packed to the rafters with users connecting to one another. Posting stories, writing on ...

I recently had the chance for an in-game tour of Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited, Turbine’s redesigned free-to-play game. My tour guides ...

I began this “button smashing” series by stating that, while statistics are the basic foundation for MMO combat, over reliance on them has ...

In the previous installment I used the rather obscure occasion of water combat to address the impact of location on battles. Fighting knee ...

Over the past couple months we’ve looked at the three core functions of the MMO: DPS, Tank, and Healer. There are, of course, ...

For all the chaff, teasing, and outright hatred that new players have to suffer through, initiates are just as essential an ingredient of ...

Of the three standard MMO classes, Healing is the only one that gives me little cause for comment. This is for several reasons. ...

The state of nature was an argumentative device employed by political philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau that presumed ...