While voice-over-IP has long been favoured as a communication medium by players of team-based online shooter games, it has recently also been appropriated by players of MMORPGs, and some recent MMORPGs have included voice facilities in the game software. ...

Voice communication between players can have many benefits relative to text-based communication for game play and social experience in fast-paced multiplayer online games. However, previous research has highlighted some problems with existing ...

In this paper we consider the question of how best to design voice communication for use in online multiplayer games. We propose a framework to helps shape both our understanding of games and how we approach games as objects of study and as artifacts to ...