Most players fall into more than one group, and more recent research from Quantic Foundry, a game analytics consultancy, suggests that people may exhibit different characteristics when playing different games. A player’s motivations are not the same in, say, a survival game like The Last of Us, as they are in the calm world of Farmville.

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The Skins Game makes its return next week. Before the action gets underway, let's take a look at each player's 2025 season, including results and key stats for skins. On Black Friday, The Skins Game returns. The series that’s seen names like Tiger Woods ...

Data from a new global survey involving over 30,000 gamers spread across 20+ markets shows that, overall, people who play games prefer single-player over multiplayer. However, digging into the data reveals some interesting differences between countries ...

The video game industry tends to be volatile, with entire genres going in and out of vogue. We’ve seen fighting games, RPGs, platformers, FMV games, and real-time strategy all declared as dead as the dodo. This has extended to the entire concept of ...