General: What Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Can Teach MMOs

What Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Can Teach MMOs

I’ve been working my through the final Kojima-made Metal Gear Solid over the last week. MGSV: The Phantom Pain is easily on my list of this year’s best games. Not only does it have what’s probably one of the greatest and weirdest first hours in gaming, but it quickly opens up into an excellent mix of mission-based storytelling and pure open world awesome.

EVE Online: Chronicles of a New Eden – The Shepherd of Newbies

Chronicles of a New Eden - The Shepherd of Newbies

EVE Online has a new player problem. It doesn’t exist just in attracting new players, but in turning those fledgling pilots into meaningful and contributing members of EVE Online. For years, CCP has toiled over the best way to introduce new players into the game, but for many, the answer has been quite obvious…