Massively Multiplayer Online Games and Well-Being: A Systematic Literature Review [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Background: Massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) evolve online, whilst engaging large numbers of participants who play concurrently. Their online socialization component is a primary reason for their high popularity.
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Navigating the feminine in massively multiplayer online games: Gender in World of Warcraft [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 The objective of the study is to present and discuss attitudes, perceptions and opinions about sexism and gendered play in the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMO), World of Warcraft.
Audrey eBrehm
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Understanding the interplay between video game design features and dysregulated gaming patterns: A call to anchor future research directions in interactionist frameworks [PDF]
Addictive Behaviors ReportsGaming disorder was officially recognized as an addictive behavior in the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) in 2019.
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Proposing a TAM-SDT-Based Model to Examine the User Acceptance of Massively Multiplayer Online Games [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021 Manuela Linares Barbero +1 more
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Real law of virtual worlds: russian approach to regulating contractual relations between a player and an operator of multiplayer online game [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 The widespread dissemination of Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games causes new problems not only in the technical field, but also in the field of law.
Turitsyn Dmitry
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Persistence in massively multiplayer online games [PDF]
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network and System Support for Games, 2008 The most important asset of a Massively Multiplayer Online Game is its world state, as it represents the combined efforts and progress of all its participants. Thus, it is extremely important that this state is not lost in case of server failures.
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Machine Learning Models on MOBA Gaming: League of Legends Winner Prediction
Acta Infologica, 2023 The entertainment industry includes companies engaged in telecommunications services, television, music streaming, video games, and live events. Gaming has gained momentum in revenue growth in the entertainment industry over the past decade.
Kaan Arık
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Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 2023 The flow theory of addiction suggests that the psychological flow state and addiction are positively correlated. However, based on 23 empirical studies involving 6,772 subjects, our meta-analysis shows that this relationship is significantly weakened in ...
Mengyuan Li, Wendy Hui, Torsten Reiners
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Security Concerns in MMO Games—Analysis of a Potent Application Layer DDoS Threat
Sensors, 2022 The application layer in the Internet protocol suite offers a significant degree of freedom regarding the orchestration of distributed denial-of-service attacks due to many different and unstandardized protocols.
Nikola Gavrić, Živko Bojović
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Load balancing for massively multiplayer online games [PDF]
Proceedings of 5th ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Network and system support for games - NetGames '06, 2006 Supporting thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of players is a requirement that must be satisfied when delivering server based online gaming as a commercial concern. Such a requirement may be satisfied by utilising the cumulative processing resources afforded by a cluster of servers.
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