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What is Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG)

Chapter 73
Encyclopedia of E-Business Development and Management in the Global Economy
A video-game genre in which players assume the role of a fictional character through which they interact with an immense number of players through the Internet. In MMORPGs, the scenario (world) in which the game takes place continues to evolve even when the player is away from the game.
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Exploring Video Games from an Evolutionary Psychological Perspective
Zack Mendenhall (Concordia University, Canada), Marcelo Vinhal Nepomuceno (Concordia University, Canada), and Gad Saad (Concordia University, Canada)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-611-7.ch073
Abstract
Video games are a relatively recent form of entertainment whose sales growth has been enormous (almost 700% from 1996 to 2007), with sales for 2007 reaching 9.5 billion dollars in the US (Entertainment Software Association, 2007). This figure does not include the sales of hardware components such as consoles and accessories, or subscriptions to high-speed Internet providers. To contextualize this sales figure, the US cinema industry garnered 9.6 billion dollars domestically in the same year (MPAA, 2007). The video game industry is so robust that it appears to be impervious to the current economic crisis (Economist, December 20, 2008).
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Chapter 9
Interoperability, Learning Designs and Virtual Worlds: Issues and Strategies
A virtual environment in which simultaneous users can log on and participate in role-playing activities. There is generally a narrative that drives the action in the game, with ‘levels’ or ‘stages’ to be worked through. The environment persists once users log off.
Published in Chapter: Interoperability, Learning Designs and Virtual Worlds: Issues and Strategies; From: Handbook of Research on E-Learning Standards and Interoperability: Frameworks and Issues
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An Investigation of Current Online Educational Games
A visually immersive three-dimensional (3D) online environment where individuals—represented by avatars (cartoonish-looking characters)—meet, socialize, and interact with each other, with computer-based agents, digital artifacts, and the environment in real time, just as they might in the real world. Also referred to as MMOGs (massively multiplayer online games).
Published in Chapter: An Investigation of Current Online Educational Games; From: Handbook of Research on Effective Electronic Gaming in Education
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