Quantic Foundry has a fun new recommendation widget for finding new games that draws from the game research firm's Gamer Motivation Profile categories (more on those here) and its survey of 300,000 gamers. (Including some New World Notes readers!)
Above, for instance, is what you get when you put "Second Life" into the search box - and indeed, in addition to SL coverage, New World Notes has also featured a lot about Skyrim/Elder Scrolls and much on Minecraft. (Kind of surprised that The Sims didn't pop up, as that franchise has quite a lot of use cases, such as avatar fashion, user-generated art, and roleplay that SL is also popular for.)
Quantic Foundry's data, by the way, is co-compiled by renowned MMO/gaming academic Nick Yee, who actually did a landmark study on avatars and personal space in Second Life back in the day.
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