Excited Rambles about Game of War: Fire Age
Back in the day, when I’d sit around in brainstorm meetings, watching dreamy-eyed game developers ponder new worlds of gamer possibility, eyes sparkling with their own gamer desires, I’d think, ‘is this what it would be like if bards & fantasy authors …
A little aloe for that burn
Headaches, irritation, memory problems, hysterics, anxiety, feeling drained and indecision – what’s the common factor? They’re all signs you’re heading towards a burnout. It’s easy to get burnt-out working, online or in the ‘real world,’ where so many of the …
Corwin Peterson Joins Metaverse Mod Squad as Director of Client Services
Corwin Peterson has joined the company as our Director of Client Services. Corwin brings over a decade of leadership experience in contact center operations to our own brand of managed customer support services for the 21st century digital customer. With expertise …
Digital Musings: 10 Informative Sites
Digital research is imperative for our industry – and taking a personal interest in that research as a customer/community member/subscriber is one of the best methods to self-educate and grow. So many of my peers reference the following content sites …
Musings: When you only had ONE house phone
“Your house phone was the only phone in the house? No way!” We all heard the stories from our grandparents about how they had to walk to school uphill both ways, only getting one jelly sandwich in a paper bag …
Meet the Metaverse Partner: Ning
Ning is an online platform for people and organizations to create custom social networks. Ning got its start in 2005, when everyone had blinged out public profile pages on MySpace, and were poking each other on Facebook. In contrast, Ning …
Friday Shenanigans: A Post-Patriotic Holiday Recap
Happy Friday, world! The week is coming to a close, emails are slow, traffic this morning was relatively non-existent (for most), and everyone state-side (and patriots abroad) have a slightly sleepy-eyed glaze today, which made me think, why not explore the …
5 tips on staying sane while working from home
I’ve had the privilege of working for Metaverse Mod Squad for the past couple of years, and what an amazing experience it has been. When I tell people that I work remotely, most would say, “Oh, that’s so nice! I …
Metaverse Staff Op-ed: Violence In Games
The game industry went through a significant change after the original joint hearings of 1993 (“Video Game Violence” Senate hearing, check out the C-Span VIDEO). The hearings were mostly emphasized on games with digitized humans, with the thought process being that …