With the increasing popularity of Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) and fast
growth of mobile gaming, cloud gaming exhibits great promises over the conventional …

Online gaming franchises such as World of Tanks, Defense of the Ancients, and StarCraft
have attracted hundreds of millions of users who, apart from playing the game, also socialize …

Cooperation is a fundamental social mechanism, whose effects on human performance
have been investigated in several environments. Online games are modern-days natural …

With the development of computer science and Internet technology, online games have
become one of the most important sources of entertainment in daily life. Meanwhile …

Multiplayer Online Games (MOGs) like Defense of the Ancients and StarCraft II have
attracted hundreds of millions of users who communicate, interact, and socialize with each …

Understanding the social structures that people implicitly form when playing networked
games helps developers create innovative gaming services to benefit both players and …

Destiny is a hybrid online shooter sharing features with Massively Multi-Player Online
Games and first-person shooters and is the to date the most expensive digital game …

Multiplayer video games are high-involvement products with multiplatform and multiplayer
characteristics which aim to enhance player retention by optimizing the matching of teams in …

In this paper two key venues of investigation in game analytics are combined: behavioral
profiling and social network analysis. Both venues of research are well developed but …

Engagement and player experience in multi-player games is influenced by the people you
play with. For that reason, grouping features and matchmaking facilities in games, as well as …