Good vs. Evil in Resident Evil 5
In a day and age where many gamers want to act out their bad side in the game, and psychologists calling it “balance”, it is really interesting to read 1UP.com’s update on the up-coming Resident Evil 5. I take it that the Japanese still believes in a strong sense of Good vs. Evil… (Yoshi Sato, [...]
Influence of denegrade video games
In 2005, I was working with two graduate students on a research called “Do Parents Know What Video Games Their Children Are Playing?” – the proposal was actually accepted by SITE Conference, unfortunately the grad students bailed out at the last minute, and it was not presented.
I am glad to see that others have the [...]
Asking the wrong questions…
Sometimes, people are very fond of asking the wrong questions. When I was much younger, my friends would trump me with the ultimate question: Can God create a rock so big and heavy that even He can not lift? There is no answer to that question because the premise invalidate the ability of a [...]
The problem of Bots
Bots (short for robots) were intended to be macro-like small program that are created for repetitive tasks without human supervision. In MMOGs, because many objectives are reusable and thus mundane, they can become tedious. Many MMOG addicts may spend more than 15 hours a day on the game, and hence could progress at much faster [...]
