I’m currently obsessed with the changes Wizards of the Coast is making to Dungeons & Dragons. If you don’t already know, there’s a new edition of the game coming this year, in September, which means the whole thing – all the rules and character classes – will be updated. In recent weeks, Wizards has revealed … Read more
A new study on gaming toxicity has found that 69 percent of gamers admit to smurfing, despite hating it when others smurf at them. The uninitiated may wonder what smurfing is, or perhaps imagine that 69 percent of gamers paint themselves blue and replace all their verbs with “smurf” during a gaming session. If you … Read more
Online video game players believe that the behavior known as “smurfs‘ is generally wrong and toxic to the gaming community – but most admit they do it and say some reasons make the behavior less objectionable, new research shows. The new study suggests that debates over gaming toxicity may sometimes be more complex and nuanced … Read more