MetaFilter posts tagged with online and gaming

WoW Plague

srboisvert — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:23:52 -0800

Can obsessive behaviours involving electronic community be considered an addiction, and the community itself an 'addictive substance?'

Ufez Jones — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 10:21:00 -0800

At the recent Digital Games Research Conference held at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands, Florence Chee and Richard Smith presented a paper on Everquest and its implications for addiction policy. Here's the full text and a decent summary here.

Neal Stephenson, Psychic

jonson — Sun, 01 Jun 2003 22:28:12 -0800

"Then we realized that somehow an insane god had taken control of our world and was out to kill us all." Subscribers of the multiplayer online game "Shadowbane" were in for a shock Tuesday evening when they realized the game system had been hacked, and the rules fundamentally altered, and not in a good way (unless you happen to like mayhem). While this ended up being a "no harm, no foul" scenario, as everything was eventually set right, it was breaking new ground in terms of the uses of hacking. In a world where characters in these games are sold via EBay, and nearly half a million people subscribe to Everquest, how long before legitimate (non "fun and games") version of what just happened occurs?

cheats

srboisvert — Sun, 18 May 2003 19:19:50 -0800

OMG! HAX!!

Movies with a Halo

adrianhon — Thu, 01 May 2003 14:27:18 -0800

Halo is probably the most well known and successful of games for the Xbox, but less well known are the scores of Halo movies that take advantage of its excellent graphics and physics engines. From the classic Warthog Jump to the cover of Asshole and the Red vs Blue series, the movies are sometimes breaktaking and almost always hilarious. Videogame geeks with a sense of humour? Say it ain't so!

ZachsMind — Sun, 09 Dec 2001 09:49:54 -0800

Kali.net (once one of the world's largest Internet gaming networks) is created. Makes money. BeTech buys Kali to impress investors. BeTech stops paying for upkeep. ISPs get peeved. No more Kali. Or is there? Is this a funeral or a phoenix? And is there anything else on the 'Net about this? I'm coming up with bupkus.

howa2396 — Sun, 02 Apr 2000 21:16:57 -0800

All pimpwar accounts disabled? I was really getting into the game. Its probably for the better since I will now be able to return to my previous life (not that it was anything signifigant). I'll just tough it out until May 1st when it comes back as a fully functional version.