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Well, to start at the very beginning with the core basics, the term MMO itself stands for <strong>‘massively multiplayer online’</strong> and means that the games can be played online simultaneously by a huge number of people across the world.</p>\n\n<p>In order to meet the MMO definition, games need to offer an experience on the largest scale and allow thousands of players to compete against and collaborate with each other at the same time.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"What does MMO stand for\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week1/images/4.png\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 555px;\" title=\"What does MMO stand for\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Do all online games offer the MMO experience?</h2>\n\n<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week_7/5_Thinking.png\" style=\"width: 250px; height: 300px; float: right;\" />Of course, online multiplayer modes that allow gamers to play against each other have become commonplace in so many different types of games in recent years, but it is important to draw a line and recognize that not all conform to the standards of an MMO.</p>\n\n<p>While major titles such as Call of Duty or FIFA may have dipped their toes into such waters by allowing people to play against each other at the same time, such gaming rarely reaches the sheer size of MMO gaming.</p>\n\n<p>It is online multiplayer gaming, but much different to the epic levels that MMOs tend to reach.</p>\n\n<h2>How do you play MMOs?</h2>\n\n<p>So now we have covered the key basics of MMOs, it is important to consider just how you can play them. For many years, MMOs were largely associated with gameplay on a PC or Mac, but over the years, this has changed to also include a range of other formats including a number of leading consoles, such as Xbox and PlayStation.</p>\n\n<p>Furthermore, the developments seen in smartphones and tablets in the past decade mean such devices have become ideal for gaming.</p>\n\n<p>Leading developers have been quick to react to that and have made many leading MMO games available on them, too.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>A brief history of MMOs</h2>\n\n<p>Considering the MMO genre is chiefly eliant on the wide availability of internet access, it is fair to say that the history of MMOs remains a fairly brief one, which only takes in the past couple of decades.</p>\n\n<p>While there are many debates about which game kicked off the MMO phenomenon, Meridian 59 and Ultima Online are certainly regarded as the frontrunners.</p>\n\n<p>Created by Archetype Interactive and The 3DO Company, Meridian 59 was released at the end of 1995 and features many classic MMO elements, including an open world setting with a magical, fantasy theme.</p>\n\n<p>Ultima Online, which was produced by Origin Systems, follows a similar style and has remained popular with many gamers for a great number of years.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Game Creation\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week1/images/5.png\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 555px;\" title=\"Game Creation\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Continued evolution</h2>\n\n<p>Since those first forays in the MMO world, the genre has grown and expanded in a number of ways. A host of different experiences are now available to gamers who immerse themselves in this world and, whether you are a fan of steampunk, anime or modern warfare, you are sure to be able to find the MMO game that suits your tastes.</p>\n\n<p>While fantasy also remains as popular as ever, other genres to have emerged include titles rooted in science fiction, horror and even the Wild West.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week1/images/6.png\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 555px;\" /></p>\n\n<h2>A multimedia phenomenon</h2>\n\n<p>This incredible range and array of styles has helped MMO gaming become a dominant force in the online world. It is thought that the number of active users playing some of the genre’s biggest games runs into the millions, with smaller titles even going on to keep thousands of people entertained every year.</p>\n\n<p>The genre’s influence has even been felt outside of just gaming, with top titles inspiring spin-offs including novels and even big-screen adaptations. MMOs are undoubtedly bigger than ever.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week1/images/7.png\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 555px;\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Where do eSports come in?</h2>\n\n<p>Another area where MMOs have become vitally important is in the world of professional gaming, also known as eSports.</p>\n\n<p>Competition is a key part of gaming and it is only natural that this has led to the creation of a major professional scene – and games with MMO elements are among the biggest hitters in this area.</p>\n\n<p>With eSports increasingly attracting big sponsorship and major multi-million dollar prize money on offer at the biggest events, it seems like only a matter of time until the concept is embraced by the mainstream.</p>\n\n<p>As MMOs are so important to the scene, such a development would be huge news for the genre.</p>\n\n<h2>The future of MMO Games</h2>\n\n<p>MMOs are more popular than ever and another factor that is likely to have a bearing on their future success is the continued evolution seen in gaming technology.</p>\n\n<p>The quality of virtual reality experiences has improved massively in recent years and could have a particular impact on the MMO genre in the future.</p>\n\n<p>With many people enjoying MMOs for the online ‘second life’ they are able to offer, developers may be keen to use VR to offer more immersive experiences and allow gamers to really dive deep into the fantasy worlds they love.</p>\n\n<div class=\"apester-media\" data-media-id=\"5c63d544e7b5aee39436961c\" height=\"476\"> </div>\n<script async src=\"https://static.apester.com/js/sdk/latest/apester-sdk.js\"></script>\n\n<h2>A vital part of gaming</h2>\n\n<p>So, when all of the above is taken into account, just what is an MMO? Well, it is a type of game that has grown from humble beginnings in the mid-1990s to become one of the most vital parts of the gaming industry today.</p>\n\n<p>Online gaming has taken on many forms as the internet has evolved through the years, but there is a strong argument to say that the emergence of MMOs has probably been the most exciting development of all.</p>\n\n<p>The genre has become a phenomenon, allowing gamers from across the world to play both with and against each other in a number of different ways.</p>\n\n<p>With millions of people playing such games every year, it is a genre with huge potential that is surely also set for a bright future thanks to new technology and the growing popularity of eSports. </p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"bottom\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_Team_B74910_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSU.jpg\" /></a></p>\n","date":"2/12/2019"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_2/header.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13276"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/soldier-game-hero/"},"strings":{"title":"The Ultimate Soldier Video Game Hero - the Super Hero","category":"Insights","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"480000","description":"<p>A soldier video game is our ticket to rule the battlefield, work with a dedicated team, and take down terrorists or the coming hordes of evil, as heroes never back down.</p>\n\n<p>Creating the ultimate warrior for a soldier game would mean taking the best skills, motivations and gear from the most powerful combatants, and then combine them into one epic machine, ready to beat <em>any </em>enemy!</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">{{banner:default}}</p>\n\n<p>From the classics like the mass demon-killing Doom to the more modern team-leading Commander Shepard of Mass Effect, soldier games take from the best. Their goal is to make the ultimate warrior who can stand again the unlimited horde – and win!</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Soldiers video games are one of the most popular gaming genres\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/soldiers-inc-mobile-warfare/main/image6.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 577px;\" /></p>\n\n<h2>What Makes a Soldier?</h2>\n\n<p>The ability and readiness to fight is an important part of being a soldier. What really makes the difference between soldier and fighter is the willingness to stand for something more.</p>\n\n<p>In other words, the distinction between a soldier and a warrior is that a soldier fights as part of a team. This is usually - but not necessarily -  an official government supported group. The same goes for soldier games as well, naturally.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Real-life soldiers are the basis for many solder video games\" src=\"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week_7/soldiers5.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 591px;\" title=\"Soldiers on a mission\" /></p>\n\n<p>To reach the level of hero, a soldier must make it their goal to fight on behalf of something bigger. Whether they're fighting for an idea or a people, soldier video games paint these soldiers as protectors and not mindless aggressors.</p>\n\n<p>This can be a little tricky, however. There are some super soldier video games where the player controls a traditional soldier, but one who has gone rogue. <em><strong>Kratos </strong></em>from God of War is a good example of this.</p>\n\n<p>While he was originally a Spartan soldier, he soon abandons this in order to pursue his own goals. Compare this with the Spartan warriors, who seek to defend their collective people.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Soldier games also include warriors from ancient civilizations\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/new/strategy.jpg\" style=\"width: 522px; height: 636px;\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Which Soldier Game Genres Have the Strongest Soldiers?</h2>\n\n<p>When we speak of super soldiers, we tend to think of <a href=\"/en/games/genre/war-games/\">war</a> or <a href=\"/en/games/genre/adventure-games/\">action adventure games</a>. If we look deeper into the world of gaming, though, we can find examples in far more genres than just super soldier video games.</p>\n\n<p>Soldier games are a good start, as an umbrella term for all genres involving soldiers, but we can also look to genres like <a href=\"/en/games/genre/rpg-games/\">RPGs</a> and <a href=\"/en/games/genre/strategy-games/\">strategy games</a>, to be more specific. Here we find some of the most commanding and powerful units on the battlefield.</p>\n\n<h3>Basic vs. Hero Units</h3>\n\n<p>While most of the controllable masses in these games are basic units, the real work and game-changing power come from the hero units.</p>\n\n<p>These fighters not only have an incredible base level of strength, but they can also grow stronger. By leveling up and equipping new gear, these units can become much more powerful the longer the battle persists.</p>\n\n<p>So, should we avoid traditional army soldier games in favor of this sort of fighter? Not so fast!</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Soldier games can be similar to or part of a different genre\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/old/portal/games/stormfall/en/blog/1/sf_blog_3.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 281px;\" /></p>\n\n<p>While RPG and strategy units can prove immensely powerful in taking care of groups, they also lack a level of direct control. This desired control is only really possible through first or third-person <a href=\"/en/games/genre/shooting-games/\">shooters</a>.</p>\n\n<p>In practice, this would mean taking the power and growth potential from RPG and strategy games. Here we would place it within an FPS or TPS environment – combining power and control into one almighty whole.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/plarium-play/download-guest/?plid=147426&pxl=seo&appId=27\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>How is a Soldier Born and Raised?</h2>\n\n<p>Becoming a soldier is not just a matter of taking up arms and fighting for a cause. At least, that is, not for the best of the best. In order to become the ultimate soldier, a warrior must be born understanding the struggle.</p>\n\n<p>They must train throughout their life in order to stand against whatever threat might raise its head.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"505\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/KiDfiZsh7XY\" width=\"853\"></iframe></p>\n\n<p>The best soldiers, from the Mongole Empire warriors, through the Aztec warriors and all the way to the Vikings - they all share the same basic beginning.</p>\n\n<p>They are born into a time of conflict and chaos. It is only through understanding the necessities and realities of this world that a warrior can forge themselves. Through practice, they temper against whatever may appear - enemies both known and unknown.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Just like real-life missions, not every soldier game is the same\" src=\"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week_7/soldiers4.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 594px;\" title=\"Lone soldier\" /></p>\n\n<p>This doesn’t mean that the soldiers themselves necessarily needs to be born for greatness. Through soldier war games, even the most average individuals might find themselves discovering something deep within when exposed to extreme circumstances - not unlike reality.</p>\n\n<p>With this, they could find themselves rising above all expectations and unlocking something new inside them.</p>\n\n<h2>What Motivates a Soldier?</h2>\n\n<p>The basic strength of a soldier comes from within, but it is only through others that this strength is able to take form. This creates an individual capable of exceeding the abilities achieved of one person alone.</p>\n\n<p>Rising above the rank and file requires more than just a reverence for duty. It needs a deeper motivation, a drive which sets a super soldier above the rest. The most guiding factor here is one borne of the desire to protect.</p>\n\n<h3>Who is a Super Soldier?</h3>\n\n<p>While all soldiers fight for this end, a super soldier will understand this more deeply than most. Mostly likely, such a soldier game character would have experienced what might happen if the enemy succeeds first-hand.</p>\n\n<p>This creates a dichotomy within the super soldier. Fighting on the highest possible level requires letting go of the compassion which pushes them forward.</p>\n\n<p>Easy enough when the enemy is a demon, but considerably more difficult when pit against a fellow man.</p>\n\n<h3>Hero or Villain?</h3>\n\n<p>In this way, our ultimate soldier must be able to shift their focus rapidly between intellectualism, brutality and compassion. One slip off of this balance, even for a second, can make the difference between hero and villain.</p>\n\n<p>Such a super soldier must have the motivation to keep each section of themselves accessible, yet simultaneously measured.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Like actual soldiers, soldiers in video games do need a lot of training\" src=\"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week_7/soldiers6.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 592px;\" /></p>\n\n<h2>What Gear and Skills Does a Soldier Need?</h2>\n\n<p>When gearing up for combat, a super soldier doesn’t just need weaponry and armor. They also need a wide range of tools and skills to find the best solution to any given problem.</p>\n\n<p>A standard load-out for a soldier might cover all of their needs in basic combat, but that is just a start. It is only through creativity and the dexterity which comes through practice that this gear will lift them <em>from soldier to super soldier</em>.</p>\n\n<h3>Super Soldier Skills</h3>\n\n<p>Super soldiers are expected to fight far stronger enemies, and against far worse odds, than their non-super counterparts. Going in guns blazing might still be a feasible solution, but it’s not always the best course of action.</p>\n\n<p>Fighting smarter can be better than fighting harder, and can save many more lives in the process.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Developing characters in soldier games\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/vikings-war-of-clans/screenshots/2.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 577px;\" title=\"Vikings: War of Clans Hero\" /></p>\n\n<h3>Super Soldier Gear</h3>\n\n<p>Here are three of the most important tool types the super soldier would need:</p>\n\n<ol>\n\t<li><strong>Armor</strong> - designed to help protect from the shrapnel and attacks from both the soldier and their enemies.</li>\n\t<li><strong>Weapons</strong> - of which melee, short-range, long-range and explosive weapons are key considerations. These could be traditional or magic, as long as they fulfill the same basic function.</li>\n\t<li><strong>Knowledge</strong> – the ability to use these in traditional and unique ways. This is further aided by the technical knowhow to work with whatever unpredictable situation the soldier finds themselves in.</li>\n</ol>\n\n<h2>How Would the Most Powerful Soldier Evolve?</h2>\n\n<p>Not everything which makes a super soldier powerful can be learned in training. The ultimate soldier grows after each battle.</p>\n\n<p>In terms of experience, this growth could be generated through the player themselves. After each battle, we grow more familiar with each enemy. We become better accustomed to their attack patterns, and we unravel their strengths and weaknesses.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Combat Soldiers can make excellent soldier game players\" src=\"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week_7/soldiers7.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 592px;\" title=\"Combat Soldiers\" /></p>\n\n<p>This experience could also manifest as character power, with our super-soldier leveling up through experience points. Traditionally this results in higher hit points, but there are also many other potential avenues of growth, including passive and active skills.</p>\n\n<p>Experience defeating many of a certain enemy could grant a bonus to damage against that enemy, for example. Experience with certain weapons can boost super-soldiers' effectiveness with that weapon against all enemies.</p>\n\n<h3>Additional Important Skills in Soldier Games</h3>\n\n<p>Other useful skills here can be regenerating health, ammunition or shields, the ability to dual-wield weapons, and direct weapon upgrades.</p>\n\n<p>In this way, even a starting weapon might eventually become useful against the most powerful of enemies. This could be either in terms of direct damage or for utility usage. It could stun them and open up opportunities for bigger but slower weapons to hit more effectively.</p>\n\n<h2>How to Build the Strongest Video Game Super Soldier</h2>\n\n<p>Making the strongest video game soldier would require taking all of the above traits. It would combine them into a singular entity which would put even Doomguy and Master-Chief to shame.</p>\n\n<p>The ultimate soldier would be born into a time of conflict. They would have seen the horrors that would occur should the enemy achieve their goal.</p>\n\n<p>Working alongside their fellow soldiers would give our protagonist direction. It would reveal some of their strengths and help create a base of skill from which they could work.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Inspirations for soldier video games\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/new/magic_sign_art_work2.jpg\" style=\"width: 628px; height: 863px;\" title=\"Stormfall Hero Inspiration\" /></p>\n\n<p>From here, our soldier would be thrust into combat, working alongside their team.</p>\n\n<p>They would rise to a level which none of their fellow soldiers could manage.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Soldier practicing their skills\" src=\"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week_7/soldiers2.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 592px;\" title=\"Solider\" /></p>\n\n<p>Using skills and versatility to overcome seemingly impossible odds, the ultimate soldier would grow at an unprecedented rate. This could be through either supernatural boons or their own unparalleled battle-born prowess.</p>\n\n<p>Despite this power, the ultimate soldier would never forget their roots and what they are fighting for. Resisting the corrupting draw of ultimate power, the ultimate super-soldier would live to serve, placing the needs of the many above the needs of themselves.</p>\n","date":"2/12/2019"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_17/Header_1368x384_01.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13275"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/viking-food/"},"strings":{"title":"Traditional Viking Food: What did the Vikings Actually Eat?","category":"Insights","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"360000","description":"<p>What did the Vikings eat? The standard Viking was just like any other average person during the feudal period, who grew their own crops and raised their own animals.</p>\n\n<p>Due to being located in a <em>northern </em>climate, this meant that the Vikings grew barley, oats and rye, as these were the crops that grew best in their native soil. So was this all they ate? Not exactly. Below, we take a deeper look into their eating habits, crops and livestock.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">{{banner:default}}</p>\n\n<h2>What was the Viking Food Menu Based On?</h2>\n\n<p>Meat acquired from the livestock they raised also played a major role in the Viking diet. This included cows, horses, oxen, goats, pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks. </p>\n\n<p>In addition to this, they fished and hunted their local wilderness, eking out an existence as best as they could in a harsh and demanding time period of humanities history.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"505\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/Doy4knWLCIA\" width=\"853\"></iframe></p>\n\n<p><a href=\"/en/blog/iconic-viking-weapons/\">The Viking warriors</a> were renowned and feared across the world for their skills in raiding, pillaging and plundering.</p>\n\n<p>Yet, little is known to the vast majority of people about how the average, everyday Viking lived and survived during the Age of Vikings.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Selfoss, Iceland where Viking food still exists today in one form or another\" src=\"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week_4/selfoss.jpg\" title=\"Selfoss, Iceland\" /></p>\n\n<h2>The Staples of the Viking Diet</h2>\n\n<p>The average Viking farm was small, however, it was more than large enough to provide for their own family, allowing them to be largely self sufficient.</p>\n\n<p>Sadly, the Vikings were not known to write cook books and therefore not many ancient vikings recipes exist.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"505\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/ryWrox4JHh8\" width=\"853\"></iframe></p>\n\n<h2>Crops as a Basis for Viking Food</h2>\n\n<p>However, what we do know is that the grains the Vikings grew on their farm played a large part in the daily Viking diet. </p>\n\n<p>Using the oats and barley they harvested to make a flour, which was then turned into a dough and baked over an open fire on a griddle, the Vikings created a <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatbread\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">flatbread</a>.</p>\n\n<h3>Did the Vikings Eat Vegetables?</h3>\n\n<p>In contrast to their rough image, yes - the Vikings did include vegetables in their daily diet. The Vikings grew a vast variety of vegetables. Some vegetation was acquired from the wilderness.</p>\n\n<p>These included cabbage, onions, garlic, leeks, turnips, peas and beans.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Cabbage is an example of crops, a basis for Viking Food\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week_4/cabbage.jpg\" title=\"Cabbage\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Viking Food: Protein Rich</h2>\n\n<p>The Vikings could not survive on vegetation alone and required a steady supply of protein to supplement their diets. As mentioned in the opening of this article, the Vikings raised a large assortment of livestock and thus had a large selection of protein to add to the Viking menu.</p>\n\n<p>Vikings ate beef, goat, pork, mutton, lamb and poultry. Occasionally, they also ate horse meat in times of need.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Viking food: protein rich\" src=\"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week_4/beef2.jpg\" title=\"viking protein\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Viking Usage of Resources</h2>\n\n<p>Many animals which the Vikings tended were not only raised for their meat consumption, but also for the additional resources that they created.</p>\n\n<p>Viking cows were often well advanced in their years before being slaughtered for their meat, meaning that the Vikings milked their cows for dairy.</p>\n\n<p>Going further than this, the Vikings used the dairy they acquired, crafting cheese, skyr, curds and butter.</p>\n\n<p>Also, the Vikings gathered both duck and chicken eggs, of which made up a steady part of their diets.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/plarium-play/download-guest/?plid=147426&pxl=seo&appId=27\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<p>Additionally, the Vikings were skilled fishermen and hunters.</p>\n\n<p>They fished whatever fish they could acquire both from the ocean and from nearby freshwater sources. This was easily accomplished due to Viking settlements typically being located on the coastline.</p>\n\n<p>Fishing in fact made up such a large part of the Viking diet, that it is estimated it constituted 25% of their diet.</p>\n\n<h2>The Viking Meals</h2>\n\n<p>Having to grow, harvest, hunt, or gather their own food meant that the Vikings had to stick to a strict schedule and work as hard as they possibly could, in the time that they were given.</p>\n\n<p>Most of norse food was seasonal and therefore they needed to “make hay” while the sun shined, with little time to waste, they rose at the crack of dawn and began their daily chores.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Illustration of Haakon Jarl and his wife Tora Skagesdatter during a traditional Viking meal\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week_4/haakon_jarl.jpg\" /></p>\n\n<p>The first meal of the day was known as the “dagmál”, or “day meal”. This was the Vikings breakfast and was ate typically one to two hours after the days chores had begun. </p>\n\n<p>For the dagmál, the adults would usually eat some leftover stew from the cauldron, from the previous nights meal. Along with this, they would usually eat some bread and fruit if available.</p>\n\n<p>The children would have a serving of porridge and a combination of bread, dried fruits, or buttermilk.</p>\n\n<p>The second and last Viking meal of the day was known as the “náttmál”, or “night-meal”, and was held at the end of a working day.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Viking stew\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week_4/viking_stew.jpg\" title=\"viking stew\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Content of the Viking Meals</h2>\n\n<p>Meals were usually a fish or meat stew, prepared with vegetables, paired with bread. </p>\n\n<p>Occasionally, some fruits or nuts sweetened with honey, which was the only sweetener that the Vikings had at their disposal.</p>\n\n<p>To go along with their meals, the Vikings drank ale mead and buttermilk, all of which they crafted themselves.</p>\n\n<p>Once the náttmál was finished, the Viking day was largely complete.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Valhalla had some of the most famous Viking food\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week_4/valhalla.jpg\" title=\"Valhalla\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Viking Food Preparation</h2>\n\n<p>Many tools have survived from ancient Viking history and were typical of other households during the Middle Ages.</p>\n\n<p>These tools would look surprisingly familiar to most people today - this is because the Vikings were quite advanced and would eat their food with <strong>handmade wooden utensils and skewers</strong>, that look similar to what we use today.</p>\n\n<p>Once readied, the meat, along with the other ingredients that would be used to make the Vikings stew would be boiled in an iron, clay, or soapstone pot over the máleldr or “meal-fire”, which was the hearth used for cooking.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Rosala Viking Center showing Viking food preparation\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week_4/Inside_Viking_House_in_Rosala_Viking_Center_in_Finland.jpg\" title=\"Rosala Viking Center\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Viking Food as the Base for Traditional Scandinavian Food</h2>\n\n<p>Sadly, as was mentioned previously, the Vikings did not record their recipes during the Age of Vikings. </p>\n\n<p>However, as the Vikings slowly transitioned and evolved from their “old ways” of raiding, pillaging and warfare, they began to integrate themselves more and more into everyday European life.</p>\n\n<h3>European Food Integrating in the Viking Diet</h3>\n\n<p>As their way of living evolved, they also began to adopt many of the culinary practices of their neighbours, integrating different spices and ingredients into their traditional norse food.</p>\n\n<p>The recipes and styles of cooking that followed this time period is what is now considered traditional Scandinavian food.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"505\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/hfU4Z4YtZgM\" width=\"853\"></iframe></p>\n\n<p>Although many of ancient Viking recipes are delicious in their own right, Scandinavian food has continued to evolve and become even more delicious, while at the same time still pays homage to the ancient ways.</p>\n\n<p>To this day, chefs from the Scandinavian region continue to reproduce, recreate and reinvent these ancient recipes, while at the same time plough forward into the new age, crafting delicious new meals that would make their ancestors proud.</p>\n","date":"1/24/2019"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/old/blog/en/2016/11/17.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13274"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/conventions/"},"strings":{"title":"20 Epic Geek Conventions You Need to Visit at Least Once in Your Life","category":"Insights","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"840000","description":"<p>For geeks, gamers, and self-identified nerds, there's nothing quite like a convention.</p>\n\n<p>Conventions allow us to meet up with like-minded fans who share the same interests and discuss our wild fan theories, hopes, and dreams for our favorite franchises. We can even get to meet the biggest names and creators behind the best geeky <a href=\"/en/games/\">games</a> and media.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">{{banner:default}}</p>\n\n<p>There are dozens of conventions around the world, catering to different groups: anime fans, gamers, and comic book geeks. Below, we've highlighted 20 of the very best conventions worth visiting, giving you all of the need-to-know information to start planning your next trip.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"The best conventions allow us to meet up with like-minded fans\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_49/image-1.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 400px;\" title=\"Conventions allow us to meet up with like-minded fans\" /></p>\n\n<h2 id=\"best-gaming-conventions\">BEST GAMING CONVENTIONS</h2>\n\n<h2 id=\"e3\">E3</h2>\n\n<p>The Electronic Entertainment Expo, better known as E3, is probably the best-known gaming event in the world. The big three gaming companies, Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo all use this convention to reveal exclusive games and new consoles, while famous publishers such as EA and Ubisoft host their own E3 events as well.</p>\n\n<p>Originally designed to give members of the press a chance to get hands-on with new games and get scoops for reporting, members of the public have since E3 2017.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"https://www.e3expo.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.e3expo.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Location:</u></strong> Los Angeles, California (USA)</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Dates:</u></strong> Every year in June</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Ticket price:</u></strong> $150 (early bird special) / $250 </p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Why it's so popular:</u></strong> E3 is an event that combines gaming and geekery with Hollywood as some of the biggest names not just in gaming, but in the world, have been known to attend. It's always chock full of huge announcements too so even if you aren't attending, you'll likely be following everything that goes on at E3 online.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"505\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/UKuS1BxVaSk\" width=\"853\"></iframe></p>\n\n<h2 id=\"gamescom\">Gamescom</h2>\n\n<p>Even bigger than E3 is German-based games convention Gamescom. This annual convention is known as the world's largest gaming event, as it draws in more than a quarter of a million attendees each year.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"/en/blog/navi-partnership/\">Gamers</a> from across Europe (and even further afield) converge to play the hottest games and discuss them over currywurst.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Gamescom is one of the most popular conventions around\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_27/gamescom.jpg\" title=\"Gamescom\" /></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//www.gamescom.global/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.gamescom.global/</a></p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Location:</u></strong> Cologne, Germany</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Dates:</u></strong> Every year in August</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Ticket price:</u></strong> 12.50 - 16 Euros per day</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Why it's so popular:</u></strong> Gamescom is considered more affordable, and its greater focus on the PC market and the fact that it is explicitly designed with consumers in mind makes it extremely popular.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"pax-west\">PAX West</h2>\n\n<p><a href=\"/en/blog/pax/\">The Penny Arcade Expo (PAX)</a> events are a series of gaming conventions that take place all over the world. PAX West is in the United States of America and is arguably the most well-known of all of the PAX shows.</p>\n\n<p>First held all the way back in 2004, the creators (who are also the team behind the Penny Arcade webcomic) have spent more than a decade making this a fun event for gamers and geeks to visit.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//west.paxsite.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">west.paxsite.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Seattle, Washington (USA)</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Dates:</u></strong> End of August to Early September every year</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Ticket price:</u></strong> $50 for a one-day pass</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Why it's so popular:</u></strong> PAX West features more big gaming reveals (including updates on games announced at Gamescom and E3), talks by developers and tournaments. Explosive Alan's editorial director <a href=\"https://twitter.com/MrPointyHead\">Dan \"</a><a href=\"https://twitter.com/MrPointyHead\">MrPointyHead</a><a href=\"https://twitter.com/MrPointyHead\">\" Maher</a> says that if you're \"feeling particularly extravagant,\" you can't go wrong with PAX West.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"egx\">EGX</h2>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"EGX is another one of the top conventions on our list\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_27/egx.jpg\" title=\"EGX\" /></p>\n\n<p>Previously known as the Eurogamer Expo, <a href=\"/en/blog/egx-eurogame-expo/\">EGX is created by Eurogamer</a> - the European video game publication which has been covering games conventions for over a decade. As such, you could say that they have a lot of experience in figuring out what works (and what doesn't) when it comes to throwing a great gaming bash.</p>\n\n<p>There's also EGX Rezzed, which is a more indie-focused games convention which takes place each year in London, England.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//www.egx.net/egx\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.egx.net/egx</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Birmingham, England</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> September every year</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> £15 - £70</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> Dan Maher explains that \"if you're mainly interested in seeing the latest and greatest, [EGX also offers] informative developer sessions, esports tournaments, a career fair, retro gaming, cosplay, and tabletop gaming.\" This makes it a solid mix of major reveals and more community-focused fun.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"esl-one\">ESL One</h2>\n\n<p>The ESL One events are a series of esports competitions that take place all around the world. ESL One New York is an event focused on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive while ESL One Cologne attendees will watch people play Dota 2.</p>\n\n<p>There are also ESL One events in Katowice, Genting, Birmingham, and Belo Horizonte.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"en.esl-one.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">en.esl-one.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Location:</u></strong> Katowice (Poland), New York (USA), Genting (Malaysia), Birmingham (UK), Belo Horizonte (Brazil), Cologne (Germany)</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Dates:</u></strong> Throughout the year</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Ticket price:</u></strong> $29 - $169</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Why it's so popular:</u></strong> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/admstevens\">Adam Stevens</a>, the owner of BC-GB Esports, describes the atmosphere at ESL One as \"electric.\" The fact that it lets you see some of the most talented CS:GO and Dota 2 players do what they do best is also a huge draw.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"dreamhack\">DreamHack</h2>\n\n<p>DreamHack is another series of esports-focused events, hosting tournaments for games such as Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and StarCraft 2.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"DreamHack is another huge and very popular conventions\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_27/DREAMHACK.jpg\" title=\"DreamHack\" /></p>\n\n<p>More than 300,000 people attend DreamHack events around the world each year, and many more choose to tune in to live streams on platforms such as YouTube and Twitch (which, admittedly, hosts its own HUGE event - <a href=\"/en/blog/twitchcon/\">TwitchCon</a>).</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//dreamhack.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">dreamhack.com/ </a></p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Location:</u></strong> USA, Sweden, Spain, Canada</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Dates:</u></strong> Throughout the year</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Ticket price:</u></strong> $30 - $535</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Why it's so popular:</u></strong> As mentioned by Adam Stevens, esports events can be a thrilling experience. It's an exhilarating feeling to watch your favorite team secure a clinching victory or watch an underdog take down a popular player. DreamHack lets fans watch that up close. </p>\n\n<h2 id=\"insomnia-gaming-festival\">Insomnia Gaming Festival</h2>\n\n<p>Insomnia Gaming Festival began life as a LAN gaming tournament which would let gamers battle to be the best, but more recently it has grown into a fun-filled gaming convention. A hugely popular event, it prides itself on being the UK's biggest gaming festival.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//insomniagamingfestival.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">insomniagamingfestival.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Birmingham, England</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> Throughout the year</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Ticket price:</u></strong> Pricing varies</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Why it's so popular:</u></strong> Dan Maher explains that Insomnia Gaming Festival provides a \"vast range of alternative activities to keep you entertained\" as well as \"an opportunity to forge new friendships, interests and even careers.\"</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Insomnia Gaming Festival is the most popular convention in the UK\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_27/insomnia.jpg\" title=\"Insomnia Gaming Festival\" /></p>\n\n<h2 id=\"playstation-experience\">PlayStation Experience</h2>\n\n<p>Sony often tends to make major announcements at E3, but for several years now it has also hosted its own PlayStation-specific gaming event called PlayStation Experience.</p>\n\n<p>Held annually at the end of the year, Sony has used the occasion to make surprise reveals and updates on some of its biggest franchises, including The Last of Us.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//www.playstation.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.playstation.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Las Vegas, Nevada (USA)</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> December every year</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> $65 - $75</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> PlayStation Experience offers a lot for PlayStation fans including hands-on time with the latest and greatest PlayStation games, developer interview sessions (and the chance to meet those developers), and all of the announcements that Sony makes each year. But it also lets fans of the Sony consoles meet with one another and enthuse about their favorite games, characters and more.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"best-anime-conventions\">BEST ANIME CONVENTIONS</h2>\n\n<h2 id=\"anime-expo\">Anime Expo</h2>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Anime Expo (AX) might be the most popular anime convention in N. America\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_27/ANIMEEXPO.png\" title=\"Anime Expo\" /></p>\n\n<p>Anime Expo (also known as AX) boasts itself as the largest anime convention in North America. With approximately 100,000 anime enthusiasts attending the event each year, including cosplayers and casual fans alike, we think that it has more than earned that right.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//www.anime-expo.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.anime-expo.org/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Los Angeles, California (USA)</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> $35 - $80</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> July every year</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> Some may call anime a very niche interest as it is typically created in the Japanese language and therefore hasn't easily made it to the West. But the Anime Expo in LA stares down that assumption, allowing anime fans to enjoy the medium together even as many mainstream critics don't understand it.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"otakon\">Otakon</h2>\n\n<p>Otakon is to the East Coast what Anime Expo is to the West. The three-day event has been taking place since 1994, letting anime lovers from far and wide share their appreciation for anime as well as the broader scope of Asian pop culture including video games, manga, music, and movies.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//www.otakon.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.otakon.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Washington, D.C. (USA)</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> Subject to change, approx. $75</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> August/September every year</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> Otakon offers a wide range of anime-related activities, including retrospectives of anime that aired in the 1980s/90s, there are live musical performances of theme music and soundtracks, and cosplay and dance events.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"jump-festa\">Jump Festa</h2>\n\n<p>Since 1999, the publisher of the Jump anthologies has held Jump Festa, a party allowing people to celebrate their love of all things manga and anime.</p>\n\n<p>While the event is primarily known for its anime announcements, video games and movies are also represented here.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Jump Festa is a popular Anime convention that includes also gaming\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_27/jumpfesta.jpg\" title=\"Jump Festa\" /></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//www.jumpfesta.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.jumpfesta.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Tokyo, Japan</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> Entry is free</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> Third week of December</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> As mentioned, Jump Festa is often home to many major anime announcements including new runs of popular series like Tokyo Ghoul, One Piece, Dragon Ball and My Hero Academia.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"animejapan\">AnimeJapan</h2>\n\n<p>Bigger still is AnimeJapan, which is actually the largest anime event in all of Japan despite only being created in 2014.</p>\n\n<p>It was created as a merging of the Tokyo International Anime Fair and the Anime Contents Expo, allowing the two teams to put their minds together to host a real blowout of an annual anime event.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//www.anime-japan.jp/en/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.anime-japan.jp</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Tokyo, Japan</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> $16 - $500</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> March every year</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> AnimeJapan draws some of the biggest companies in the anime industry, including domestic and international companies. They host displays, stage shows, sales, and events, making this one entertaining event for mainstream anime fans in particular.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"a-kon\">A-Kon</h2>\n\n<p>Both the east and west coasts of the USA have anime conventions, so it's only fair that the south has one too! A-Kon is the longest running anime convention in North America and it draws an attendance of over 30,000 people each year.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//a-kon.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a-kon.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Fort Worth, Texas (USA)</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> $25 - $55</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> First week of June every year</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> The south isn't often catered to when it comes to conventions like this, so A-Kon stands out. Attendees also appreciate the chance to see up and coming artists at artists alley as well as community events such as trivia nights, panels, cosplay contests, singalongs and more.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"A-Kon is probably the best anime convention in southern USA\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_27/a-kon-1.jpg\" title=\"A-Kon\" /></p>\n\n<h2 id=\"japan-expo\">Japan Expo</h2>\n\n<p>Aren't able to get to Japan or the USA? Then Japan Expo, which takes place in Europe and is the largest of its kind outside of Japan, may suit you well. Taking place across four days, this massive event is attended by almost a quarter of a million people each year.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//www.japan-expo-paris.com/en/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.japan-expo-paris.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Paris, France</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> 14 Euros - 300 Euros</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> July every year</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> European anime fans who can't afford to get to the US or Japan flock to Japan Expo every year. It features idols of Japanese culture including artists and game developers, masterclasses that teach you how to improve your anime creation skills as well as fan-focused events like panels.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"best-comic-book-conventions\">Best Comic Book Conventions</h2>\n\n<h2 id=\"san-diego-comic-con\">San Diego Comic-Con</h2>\n\n<p>Founded in 1970, San Diego Comic-Con now draws over 150,00 attendees each year and is a huge staple on the gaming, comic book, movie and television promo circuit. There is often a massive waiting list for tickets to get into SDCC due to its popularity.</p>\n\n<p><b><u>Official site:</u></b> <a href=\"//www.comic-con.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.comic-con.org/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> San Diego, California</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> $42 - $276</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> July every year</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"San Diego Comic-Con could be one of the biggest comic conventions in the world\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_27/sdcc.jpg\" title=\"San Diego Comic-Con\" /></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> Every year, SDCC features major reveals every year and panels with the biggest stars in the business. For example, SDCC 2018 included panels with the casts of Doctor Who, The Walking Dead, Star Trek: Discovery and many, many more.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"comiket\">Comiket</h2>\n\n<p>Comiket (or Comic Market) is a \"dōjinshi\" (self-published works) fair that takes place twice a year in Japan. Despite this sales event starting as a grassroots effort some years ago, it has absolutely ballooned and over 500,000 people attend it each year.</p>\n\n<p><b><u>Official site:</u></b> <a href=\"//www.comiket.co.jp/index_e.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.comiket.co.jp/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Tokyo, Japan</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> $7</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> August and December</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> Going to Comiket means the chance to discover little-known works by artists who don't yet have a following. Who wouldn't want to jump on the bandwagon before the bandwagon for that artist is even up and running? </p>\n\n<h2 id=\"mcm-comic-con\">MCM Comic Con</h2>\n\n<p>MCM Comic Con is England's answer to SDCC. It takes place twice a year and focuses on a strong mix of both UK popular culture as well as the popular culture from Japan that has found fans in Europe.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//www.mcmcomiccon.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.mcmcomiccon.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> London, UK</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> May and October</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> £17 - £150</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> Dan Maher has a lot of praise for this event because it hits all of the right, geeky spots. Maher is a fan of hybrid conventions and says that \"it’s a safe bet to say that if you love video games, you’ll likely enjoy comics, anime, sci-fi, films, cosplay, music or all of the above.\"</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"MCM Comic Con is a UK-based popular convention\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_27/mcm.jpg\" title=\"MCM Comic Con\" /></p>\n\n<h2 id=\"new-york-comic-con\">New York Comic Con</h2>\n\n<p>First held all the way back in 2006, New York Comic Con is the largest comics convention on the east coast of the USA. It gets almost 200,000 attendees each year, which is a heck of a lot of people gathering to talk about all things sci-fi and geekery.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//www.newyorkcomiccon.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.newyorkcomiccon.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> New York, USA</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> October every year</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> $12.50 - $50</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> NYCC draws in some of the biggest names in the business. 2018's guests include Lois Lane herself Teri Hatcher, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Danai Gurira of Black Panther and The Walking Dead, Jason Momoa of Aquaman and Game of Thrones, and many more.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"fan-expo-canada\">Fan Expo Canada</h2>\n\n<p>Not one to be left out, the great white north has its own comic convention too in the form of Fan Expo Canada. Attended by more than 130,000 people each year, Canada clearly has a thing for comics.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//www.fanexpocanada.com/en/home.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.fanexpocanada.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Toronto, Canada</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> August to September</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> $25 - $569</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> Fan Expo is a major stop when it comes to Canadian promo tours meaning that major names like Jason Momoa, Michael J. Fox of Back to the Future fame, and even the cast of Xena: Warrior Princess has shown up.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"oz-comic-con\">Oz Comic-Con</h2>\n\n<p>Not a Wizard of Oz fan convention, Oz Comic-Con is actually Australia's \"premier\" comic convention. Australian comic book lovers can attend to discuss cosplay, comics, video, and anime.</p>\n\n<p>It also takes place in several places across the country meaning that you won't necessarily have to travel too far to go.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Oz Comic-Con takes place in Australia\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_27/ozcomiccom.jpg\" title=\"Oz Comic-Con\" /></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//ozcomiccon.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ozcomiccon.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney Australia</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> Throughout the year (depending on location)</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> $20 - $65</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> Again, this is a major press stop for big international comic productions (including blockbuster comic book movies and TV shows) and so big names are likely to attend, drawing a massive crowd.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"up-and-coming conventions\">Up-and-coming Conventions</h2>\n\n<p>Although the geek conventions mentioned are some of the most popular and well-known, they aren't the only ones drawing crowds. GeekGirlCon is, as the name would imply, is a convention that targets women in science, tech and gaming. (Re)Generation Who is a smaller but no less entertaining convention solely focused on Doctor Who. It shows that no matter how much of a niche your geeky interests, there is likely a convention out there for you.</p>\n","date":"10/16/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"alt":"","href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_49/header.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13257"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/viking-history/"},"strings":{"title":"What Happened to The Vikings? A Brief History","category":"Insights","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"660000","description":"<p>Feared, ruthless, noble, vicious, skilled, respected - these and many other words could be used to describe the Vikings. For a period of time, these proud warrior people dominated all others in their part of the world.</p>\n\n<p>But, who were the Vikings? Where were they from and ultimately, what happened to them?</p>\n\n<p>These questions and many more, are going to be the focus of this article, as we delve into the rich history of the Viking society and their people. </p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">{{banner:default}}</p>\n\n<h2>Where Did the Vikings Come From?</h2>\n\n<p>The Anglo-Saxons labeled the Vikings as Danes, but as was later learned, this was not entirely correct. The Vikings were indeed a diverse people, hailing from all over the Scandinavian region, including Norway, Sweden <em>and </em>Denmark.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Where Did the Vikings Come From?\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/old/blog/en/2016/11/25.jpg\" style=\"width: 934px; height: 296px;\" /></p>\n\n<p>The Scandinavian region would later on indeed have trouble containing these people within its borders, as they flooded outward, exploring, trading with and pillaging large swathes of Europe throughout the time period that earn the title of the Viking Age.</p>\n\n<p>The Age of Vikings, as history now knows it, was between 700AD to 1100AD and was a period in time in which the Vikings struck fear into the heart of all those they opposed, raiding and pillaging the seaside, as they wrecked havoc across a once peaceful land.</p>\n\n<h2>Who Were the Vikings?</h2>\n\n<p>The Vikings were first and foremost warriors from the Scandinavian region. These nordic warriors are often depicted as villains or barbarians, and for a good reason given their common practice of raiding and pillaging defenseless coastal towns and monasteries all across Europe. This description, however, does not fully encompass the whole sum of Vikings.</p>\n\n<p>It is easy to answer the question of who were the Vikings with a simple Hollywood depiction or definition of them, but this would be ignorant to the facts, as numerous examples exist that showcase a people who just wanted to live a normal everyday life.</p>\n\n<p>The Vikings were a diverse people, who yes, included warriors, but also consisted of skilled tradesman, farmers, merchants, seafarers, and peaceful settlers.</p>\n\n<h3>What does 'Viking' Even Mean?</h3>\n\n<p><strong>The term Viking itself means pirate or raider.</strong> As one can assume, many Scandinavian people would not have called themselves a Viking during this time period. Yet, to those being raided, they were all known as Vikings, as this was the only aspect of their culture that they were sadly exposed to before they were run through and put to death.</p>\n\n<p>Vikings could not solely rely on raiding distant places to provide for their people. They needed to settle locations, farm the land, and tend to livestock.</p>\n\n<p>Others would travel great distances to trade their goods, including <a href=\"https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/articles/zw3qmp3\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">overland through Russia</a>, reaching as far as Constantinople, in what is now known as modern-day Turkey. Still, others would make the journey to Baghdad in Iraq, proving that the reach of the Vikings was far indeed.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"What happened to the Vikings?\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/old/blog/en/2016/11/22.jpg\" style=\"width: 934px; height: 296px;\" /></p>\n\n<h2>What Language Did the Vikings Speak?</h2>\n\n<p>As the Vikings traveled the world, they were forced to communicate with vastly different populations and thus in different languages. However, in their homeland, Vikings spoke the language known today as <strong>Old Norse</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken throughout much of the Scandinavian region, including the Faroe Islands, Iceland, and Greenland. Parts of Russia, France, the British Isles and Ireland all had regions which communicated in Old Norse as well, unsurprisingly given the heavy Viking influence that those regions would have been under during the time period.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/B_VxajWYG-4\" width=\"560\"></iframe></p>\n\n<p>Many ancient runes and carvings have been discovered by historians that reveal the use of Old Norse. The runic script is known as <a href=\"https://www.vikingrune.com/2008/11/younger-futhark-runes/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Younger Futhark</a> or Scandinavian runes. It is a runic alphabet that consisted of 16 characters and of which was used predominantly during the Viking Age, fading out of use as their power and influence began to wane.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/plarium-play/download-guest/?plid=147426&pxl=seo&appId=27\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>What Did the Vikings Trade?</h2>\n\n<p>As previously noted, the Vikings were capable of reaching far distances, over both land and sea, as they were some of the, if not the most skilled seafaring folk of the time. Which is precisely one of the reasons why they dominated so many others they encountered.</p>\n\n<p>But, what did they trade throughout their travels? What did they bring with them?</p>\n\n<p>Commonly, Viking traders sought luxury goods, <a href=\"http://www.teachinghistory100.org/objects/viking_scales_and_weights\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">such as silver</a>, silk, spices, wine, jewelry, glass, and pottery. All of which were in demand where the Vikings hailed from.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"What did the Viking trade?\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/new/24.jpg\" /></p>\n\n<p>To purchase these goods, Viking traders would bring domestic products to trade, such as honey, tin, wheat, wool, wood, iron, fur, leather, fish and walrus ivory.</p>\n\n<p>Unfortunately, touching on a much darker side of Viking history, they were also prolific buyers and sellers of human slaves.</p>\n\n<h2>The Vikings Attack Across Europe</h2>\n\n<p>Although it is true that not all Vikings were ruthless raiders and pillagers, it still is a reality that they earned this reputation for a reason. They were killers that rejoiced in their successes, fondly recounting their victories to their loved ones after returning home after a solid campaign of reaving.</p>\n\n<p>The first officially recorded raid on the Anglo-Saxon region was around 787 and was the beginning of a struggle that would last for hundreds of years to come.</p>\n\n<p>At first, the Vikings were foolishly welcomed when they were first spotted off the coasts of Britain. The local population headed to the shore unarmed to greet them. This was a mistake that they would soon come to regret, as the Viking horde rampaged across the coastline, slaughtering the innocent and defenseless in kind.</p>\n\n<h3>The Vikings Arrive to the British Isles</h3>\n\n<p>Their fierceness and veracity confused and confounded the local population of Britain, as the Vikings were more than willing to target once sacred locations, such as Christian monasteries, which were flush with gold, silver, livestock and other various forms of wealth.</p>\n\n<p>To many, this was unheard of, but to the Vikings hoping for an easy victory, it was a no-brainer. There was no moral dilemma in sacking these holy monasteries, as they were a pagan people and did not adhere to the religion that dominated these foreign lands.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Vikings attacked foreign civilizations\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/old/blog/en/2016/11/17.jpg\" style=\"width: 934px; height: 296px;\" /></p>\n\n<p>As the years unfolded, hostilities between both the Viking people and the Anglo-Saxons would continue to ratchet up, increasing in both scale and brutality.</p>\n\n<h2>The Great Viking Invasion</h2>\n\n<p>Facing mounting resistance from the lands of Ireland and Britain, and having plucked all the “easy” targets, the Viking people decided that a more coordinated effort would be needed if they wished to expand their dominance and thus crack open the true riches that the Anglo-Saxons possessed.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"The great Viking invasion\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/new/vikings_voyages.jpg\" /></p>\n\n<p>In 865 a massive army was formed, known as the Great Danish Army or, depending on whom you asked, the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Heathen_Army\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Great Heathen Army</a>.</p>\n\n<p>This was a coalition of Norse warriors from all over the Scandinavian region, with the bulk of the forces originating from Denmark.</p>\n\n<p>Previously, Viking raids used simple hit-and-run tactics, quickly striking and pillaging before any real, strong defense could be mounted. These tactics satisfied the Viking people, but like so many that came before them, they would increasingly want more.</p>\n\n<p>The legends state that to solve this problem, the Viking people would need a much larger, more capable force. One that would be able to penetrate deeper into the Anglo-Saxon lands, and allow their people to settle the region as their own.</p>\n\n<h2>The Viking Army</h2>\n\n<p>This army was led by three of the legendary warrior Ragnar Lodbrok’s five sons: Hvitserk, Ivar the Boneless, and Ubba Ironside. The size of the force is unknown to historians, but it is estimated to be one of the most massive armies of the time.</p>\n\n<p>This campaign against the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms lasted a gruesome 14 years, most of which were filled with terror and suffering.</p>\n\n<p>The King of East Anglia, Edmund the Martyr, offered the invading forces many horses as a gift, hoping to appease them. Unsurprisingly, the Viking forces did not accept this gift and proceeded to devastate the lands of East Anglia, killing Edmund in the process.</p>\n\n<h2>What Happened to the Vikings?</h2>\n\n<p>The Vikings continued their campaign of destruction against the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms throughout the 14-year war.</p>\n\n<p>Over several years of back and forth warfare, the Great Heathen Army dominated most of Northern England, taking control of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms known as Northumbria, East Anglia and a large portion of Mercia.</p>\n\n<p>However, the Vikings invasion began to grind to a halt as division began to form within their ranks and their armies began to fracture into two separate forces.</p>\n\n<h2>Who Defeated the Vikings?</h2>\n\n<p>This would be the beginning of the end of their campaign, as the Vikings suffered a <a href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/Battle-of-Edington\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">significant defeat at the hands of Wessex</a>, the only region to hold out against the Vikings. Led by King Alfred, the armies of Wessex defeated half of the Viking forces in the Battle of Edington in 878, forever crushing their hopes of dominating all of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms.</p>\n\n<p>This setback to the Viking forces gave the lands of Wessex enough time to begin to create a strong standing army and fortifications that would continue to stifle the Viking incursion.</p>\n\n<p>However, the people of Britain still found themselves under much of Viking rule and the lands were essentially carved in half, with the Vikings dominating the Northern parts of the region, while the people of Wessex, led by King Alfred controlling the South.</p>\n\n<p>This would remain this way for much of the remainder of the Viking Age.</p>\n\n<h2>The End of the Viking Age</h2>\n\n<p>When the Age of Vikings began, most of Europe was loosely organized, consisting of militia forces that found it hard to quickly mount a formidable defense against the Viking \"shock and awe\" style tactics.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Who defeated the Vikings?\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/old/blog/en/2016/11/18.jpg\" style=\"width: 934px; height: 296px;\" /></p>\n\n<p>As the years progressed and as the constant threat of raiding went on, the people of Europe began to band together to organize standing armies, and build proper fortifications.</p>\n\n<p>These adequately defended fortifications, and well-trained armies would make Vikings raid tactics unviable and thus unprofitable. To the Vikings, this would be the beginning of the end for their reign of dominance. Their success would ultimately be their own undoing.</p>\n\n<p>The once soft targets were soft no more, as even Church monasteries began to build easily defended tower location, into which they could quickly move their valuables and surround with a solid defense against Viking raids.</p>\n\n<p>Other towns simply moved further inland, making it more difficult for Viking raiding parties to use their notorious hit-and-run tactics against them.</p>\n\n<p>In the end, as is often the case throughout history, money cast the deciding vote, and if a venture is no longer profitable than business will move elsewhere. That is precisely what the Viking people did.</p>\n\n<h2>Where are the Vikings Today?</h2>\n\n<p>The Viking people were never defeated, and they were not conquered. However, they were slowed down and repelled, which Forced them to change their tactics and eventually their whole way of life. The times changed and so too did the Vikings.</p>\n\n<p>Being explorers by nature, they engaged with and interacted with countless cultures. These cultures slowly began to seep into and affect their way of life as they adopted many of the practices and religions of foreign lands.</p>\n\n<p>Christianity, which was spreading across most of the known world at the time, was embraced by the once pagan society and flourished within Viking culture towards the end of the Viking Age.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Where are the Vikings Today?\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/old/blog/en/2016/11/20.jpg\" style=\"width: 934px; height: 296px;\" /></p>\n\n<p>Most historians attribute the year 1066 as the year in which this bloody age ended. The final straw was the Battle of Stamford Bridge, in which the Norwegian king Harald Hardrada was <a href=\"https://www.historyhit.com/facts-about-the-battle-of-stamford-bridge/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">repelled, defeated and killed in combat</a> as he sought to reclaim a large part of England.</p>\n\n<p>This would be the last major Viking incursion into the lands of Europe, and from this point on integration into the broader European community accelerated, as the Vikings slowly but surely shed the titles of raiders and pirates, and became just another part of European society.</p>\n\n<p>They would no longer be referred to as Vikings, but rather as Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, Icelanders, Greenlanders, and Faroese.</p>\n\n<p>The Age of Vikings had come to an end, but the history and the legends they left behind would live on throughout history, art, and culture until the end of time.</p>\n","date":"10/3/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"alt":"","href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/old/blog/en/2016/11/25.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13255"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/what-is-arg/"},"strings":{"title":"Alternate Reality Games ","category":"Insights","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"600000","description":"<p>The game of marketing is an increasingly difficult one to win.</p>\n\n<p>With marketing of the past, you only needed a catchy jingle (\"Just One Cornetto\"), a nonsense slogan (McDonald's \"I'm Lovin' It!\"), or an advert that crams all of the world's biggest musicians and sports superstars into one incredible crossover (Pepsi's Superbowl ads) to make an impact.</p>\n\n<p>However, in 2018, successful marketing is defined as a marketing campaign that has gone viral, that has got its hooks into the population and has got everyone on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram talking about it.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"What is an ARG?\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_25/arg-axe.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"Viral marketing isn't enough these days\" /></p>\n\n<p>The problem is, figuring out how to make a marketing campaign that's going to \"stick\" and make an impact with people is no easy feat. Some of the <a href=\"https://edit.co.uk/blog/the-top-10-viral-marketing-campaigns-of-all-time\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">most well-known viral marketing campaigns</a> of the last decade include Old Spice's \"look at your boyfriend, now look at me\" advert and a dancing miniature pony, as choreographed by mobile phone network Three. These are hardly the easiest formulas to replicate.</p>\n\n<p>In place of capturing lightning in a bottle, many marketers think that they have found a solid strategy in the form of ARGs. Being a more interactive marketing experience, ARG combines the ability to get people talking with the sort of positive silliness that makes people feel good about a brand. You're going to be seeing more ARGs pop up very soon, so let's explore the genre even more.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">{{banner:default}}</p>\n\n<h2>Alternate Reality Games Explained</h2>\n\n<p>The acronym ARG stands for <strong>Alternate Reality Game</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>An alternate reality game is a marketing campaign or a form of gaming that uses real-world elements as part of a narrative or a larger story. Essentially, An ARG is like one big treasure hunt.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"An ARG game is like one big treasure hunt.\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_25/arg-2.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"An ARG game is like one big treasure hunt.\" /></p>\n\n<p>For example, an ARG may ask players to solve clues that they find in real-life, before using the solutions to unlock information that is available in a digital format. This may include finding a symbol written on a monument in \"invisible ink\" that is only visible through the use of an app on your smartphone or tablet. Alternatively, it may be a letter given to you by someone in real-life (a representative for the game), that, when translated, shows you the URL of a website which hosts additional clues.</p>\n\n<p>ARGs may be easy to solve or quite complicated to work through, depending on the target market and the intentions of the ARG's creator. If you have planned your ARG out for a lengthy amount of time, it doesn't make sense if someone with a fifth-grade education can quickly solve the clues. On the other hand, if your target audience is prone to frustration or has been shown to have very little patience, clues that require a significant amount of work aren't the way to go. You may think it's ingenious to create a clue in Njerep, but unless your players are part of the <a href=\"https://www.pacsafe.com/blog/6-of-the-rarest-languages-still-spoken-today.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">four people in the world who speak it</a>, they are going to be stumped and incredibly annoyed.</p>\n\n<h2>4 Epic Examples of ARG Games That Went Viral</h2>\n\n<p>Let's take a look at some clever ARG campaigns that have done astonishingly well. The following ARGs not only got everyone talking, but they actually led to success:</p>\n\n<h3><strong>Fortnite Season 5 ARG</strong></h3>\n\n<p>A recent - and incredibly exciting - alternate reality game campaign was held for Epic Games' juggernaut Fortnite. The multiplayer shooter game is known for its many iconic locations, including areas like Tilted Towers, Loot Lake, and Snobby Shores, as well as its stylized, multi-colored llamas that players can smash for loot.</p>\n\n<p>Likewise, innocuous pieces of scenery such as the \"Durr Burger\" mascot from the fictional Fortnite food chain of the same name are also iconic to players. So, when unusual things started happening, Fortnite players were quick to take notice.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/Al0vL_H-sPY\" width=\"560\"></iframe></p>\n\n<p>The Fortnite ARG kicked off ahead of the game's fifth season, with the theme of \"worlds collide.\" As such, players saw the game's <a href=\"https://www.polygon.com/fortnite/2018/7/9/17549234/fortnite-arg-llamas-europe\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">llamas start appearing in real life</a> all over the world (including the streets of Barcelona and in phone boxes in London). A Durr Burger mascot even showed up on a beach in California.</p>\n\n<p>The ARG was a massive success, appealing to the game's naturally inquisitive audience and a gaming media that fuelled interest and got everyone hooked, waiting to see what would come next.</p>\n\n<h3><strong>Overwatch Sombra Reveal ARG</strong></h3>\n\n<p>The players of Overwatch, Blizzard's multiplayer shooter, have proved themselves to be an incredibly curious bunch. Gamers are already known for the way in which they pore over job listings for hints of new titles, read into LinkedIn profiles for any whiff of a hotly anticipated sequel, and data mine every new update to find unreleased content. The Overwatch community kicks that up a notch.</p>\n\n<p>The ARG for Overwatch character Sombra built on all of that, in a game that took almost six entire months to complete.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Overwatch Sombra ARG\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/new/SombraARG.jpg\" title=\"Overwatch Sombra ARG\" /></p>\n\n<p>The Sombra ARG began in July 2016, when players spotted some hexadecimal values in the reveal video of Ana, a new sniper character who recently joined the game. The ARG ended in November 2016 when Blizzard officially announced Sombra during its annual Blizzcon event.</p>\n\n<p>The ARG included translations (mostly of Spanish, Sombra's native language), barcodes, QR codes, ciphers, encrypted messages, directions, datamoshing, email analysis, phone numbers and more. Every sort of clue Blizzard could come up with - players were able to solve. It was a community-wide effort that got people outside of the hardcore Overwatch community talking too.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/plarium-play/download-guest/?plid=147426&pxl=seo&appId=27\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h3><strong>No Man's Sky Waking Titan ARG</strong></h3>\n\n<p>No Man's Sky, the space exploration game from developer Hello Games, had already proven itself to be a massive technical feat. The game uses procedural generation to create all of its flora, fauna, planets, stars, animals, and just about everything that players see. It also enjoyed consistent updates since launch, in an effort to make good on the expectations fans had held since the game was first announced.</p>\n\n<p>To try and make the next update process feel more \"fun,\" Hello Games launched a set of Waking Titan teasers in the run-up to the game's huge Atlas Rises update in mid-2017. The update introduced new story content, a new race, improvements to key gameplay features, and a small but meaningful introduction of multiplayer co-op.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/J4yjOtLD1c8\" width=\"560\"></iframe></p>\n\n<p>The ARG included <a href=\"https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-06-07-no-mans-sky-community-deciphers-cryptic-hello-games-cassette-message\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">cassette tapes sent to the No Man's Sky community</a>, ASCII, spectrographs and more. Hello Games even brought its ARG back (with lots more new clues and teasers) to promote its hotly anticipated No Man's Sky NEXT update which launched in mid-July.</p>\n\n<h3><strong>Frog Fractions 2 ARG</strong></h3>\n\n<p>The ARG that revealed Frog Fractions 2 had been called one of the most trolling ARGs in the games industry ever, partly because of how ludicrous the entire thing seemed.</p>\n\n<p>The famous community ARG sleuth group, the Game Detectives, were the first to discover this campaign. They soon began to put the pieces together of something they called the \"<a href=\"https://kotaku.com/indie-games-most-cryptic-mystery-apparently-just-a-fro-1789010586\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Eye Sigil conspiracy</a>.\"</p>\n\n<p>The Detectives spotted eye sigil logos in more than 19 indie games on Steam. They were able to piece together a map from the sigils found in games like Quadrilateral Cowboy and Duskers. This map was then linked to a letter soup in Firewatch, which eventually led to some teasing videos and, as we've already given away, a teaser for Frog Fractions 2 - a game available through another title called Glittermitten Grove.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Frog Fractions 2 ARG\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_24/FrongFractions2.png\" style=\"width: 843px; height: 572px;\" title=\"Frog Fractions 2 ARG\" /></p>\n\n<p>The entire thing took two years to unravel, picking up steam during that time, though many were entirely surprised that Frog Fractions 2 developer Twinbeard Studios had managed to get so many fellow indie devs on board with the ARG.</p>\n\n<h2>What Makes a Successful ARG Game? </h2>\n\n<p>While it's difficult to figure out exactly what makes a successful viral marketing campaign (a la Old Spice), there are some clear beats of what makes a good alternate reality game.</p>\n\n<p>The first big tip is to make sure that the payoff is worth it. The Frog Fractions 2 ARG, for example, was captivating, up until the moment that fans realized that it was for Frog Fractions 2. That's not to say that people weren't excited for the game (they were) but due to the size and scope of the ARG and how it involved so many big names in the industry, many expected it to be for something far more significant.</p>\n\n<p>The tone of the eye sigil and the games that it was present in also seemed heavily at odds with the Frog Fractions franchise and its far more humorous tone.</p>\n\n<p>Another critical factor is that they mustn't last too long - or, at least, not longer than the community can handle. Blizzard Entertainment admitted that it's \"not very good\" at creating alternate reality games after Overwatch fans complained that its ARG, while engaging, was too cyclical and was stretched out for too long.</p>\n\n<p>The fact that leaks of character art also confirmed that Sombra was in development a while before she was officially unveiled meant that fans felt that their efforts were somewhat wasted. Keeping a lid on things is a must for any ARG designer.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Keeping a lid on things is a must for any ARG designer\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_25/arg-1.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Why Are ARGs Becoming More Popular? </h2>\n\n<p>The success of alternate reality games is very much a reflection of the current games industry as well as the broader marketing world. In gaming right now, we are seeing the rise of games which are focused on community, on collaboration, and on the sense of belonging to something or a cause greater than one's self.</p>\n\n<p>Traditional team building exercises in the workplace may involve building rafts out of straws and bits of cardboard, but in 2018, the real bonding exercise is poring over spreadsheets with your buddies trying to figure out where the ARG clues will take you next.</p>\n\n<p>Meanwhile, on the marketing front, ARGs are on the rise because consumers and gamers have grown bored with traditional marketing campaigns. According to an <a href=\"https://www.marketingweek.com/2017/06/29/arrogance-brand-purpose-distrust-ads/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">advertising study by Trinity Mirror</a>, 69% of the 1,000 consumers interviewed (690 people) say that they distrust advertising. The study highlighted the \"arrogance\" of some brands' marketing as well as \"huge exaggeration\" and overpromising.</p>\n\n<p>In the games industry, with its bullshots (screenshots that have been edited to reflect better visuals than the game actually has) and trailers that are entirely CGI or include gameplay run on powerful PCs that the average gamer couldn't possibly afford, players may be especially distrusting of traditional video game marketing. As the entire industry shifts to a more community-focused, open-armed, feedback-embracing way of doing things, it makes sense that the idea that video games are marketed should do the same.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"ARGs usually consist of an adventurous element\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_25/arg-3.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"What is an ARG?\" /></p>\n\n<p>ARGs are the perfect balance between excitement and community involvement, which explains why they are so appealing to marketers and PR people, as well as the players that participate in their campaigns.</p>\n\n<p>It's because of all this that we should expect to see more alternate reality games crop up in future. They may not all be continent-spanning juggernauts or industry-wide conspiracies that take years to decipher, but as marketers and players figure out what works and what doesn't, we will get to follow and take part in more ARGs that keep us on the edge of our seats.</p>\n\n<p>Bring on the cryptic clues and the marvelous mysteries because the age of the ARG is upon us.</p>\n","date":"8/29/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_25/arg-3.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13241"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/iconic-viking-weapons/"},"strings":{"title":"Top 9 Viking Weapons and Viking Armor Used on the Battlefield","category":"Insights","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"420000","description":"<p>Throughout most of history, there has often been a boogeyman - an opponent so strong, so furious, they have kept a nation awake at night and rulers wringing their hands in frustration, as they scramble to tackle this foe.</p>\n\n<p>Some of those opponents were the notorious Vikings.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">{{banner:default}}</p>\n\n<p>The Vikings, hailing from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, were known as fierce and formidable foes who went largely unopposed throughout their reign in history <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_Age\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">from AD 700 to 1100</a>.</p>\n\n<p>During this 400 year period, known by many as the Viking Age, the Viking people were both feared and respected for their skill with weaponry and armor, on which we will focus on throughout the course of this article.</p>\n\n<h2>Known Viking Weapons</h2>\n\n<p>In AD 787, three Viking boats or longships landed in Southern England, where they fought the local population, starting a conflict with England that would last for hundreds of years.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"The axe is one of the most iconic Viking weapons\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_22/VKN_Blog-images---Vikings-weapons_3.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"The Viking axe\" /></p>\n\n<p>During the numerous battles that unfolded over many years, the Vikings used many weapons, but one, above all others, never strayed far from their side.</p>\n\n<h3>Viking Axe</h3>\n\n<p>All Vikings rode the waves and leaped into battle with a weapon in hand. More often than not the Viking axe was their weapon of choice.</p>\n\n<p>With a cutting-edge ranging from 3 to 18 inches in length, depending on the wealth of the owner, and a long handle, the Viking axes gave their wielder a tremendous advantage in reach. They were typically worn at the waist, held in place with a belt.</p>\n\n<h3>Ulfberht, the Viking Sword</h3>\n\n<p>Although commonly associated with the axe, Vikings were a people born into warfare so it should come as no surprise that they would not limit themselves to merely one choice of weaponry.</p>\n\n<p>The Ulfberht, aka the Viking sword, was not as commonly seen as the Viking axe. Iron was in limited availability during this era of medieval weapons and was thus typically only possessed by the more wealthy in Viking society.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Ulfberht, the Viking Sword\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_22/VKN_Blog-images---Vikings-weapons_1.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"Ulfberht, the Viking Sword\" /></p>\n\n<p>However, the typical Viking sword was still a formidable weapon of destruction. T double-edged blade was roughly 35 inches in length, worn over the shoulder and made reachable with the right hand.</p>\n\n<h3>Bow and Arrow</h3>\n\n<p>Although Vikings were best known as skilled, close quarter combatants (and they most certainly were), they were not limited purely to this style of fighting.</p>\n\n<p>Vikings quickly discovered that the bow and arrow, which they initially used for hunting, could also be used as an effective way of vanquishing their foes.</p>\n\n<p>A skilled Viking archer could shoot an average of twelve arrows per minute before the inevitable close quarter combat would begin.</p>\n\n<p>Taking advantage of this skill, Viking warriors would often unleash a barrage of arrows from their boats before making landfall and engaging their opponents in face-to-face combat.</p>\n\n<h3>Viking Spear</h3>\n\n<p>One Viking weapon that fit both roles of both close and ranged combat was the Viking spear, which ranged between 3 to 10 feet in length and thus came in many various styles.</p>\n\n<p>Some Viking spears were designed to be thrown at great lengths, while others were much more sturdy, making them ideal for close quarter combat.</p>\n\n<h3>Seax, the Viking Knife</h3>\n\n<p>The last form of weaponry Vikings equipped in their vast utility belts of slaughter was the knife. Although they ranged in size and quality, these blades were never far from reach during the Viking age, as even slaves were <a href=\"https://blackguard-customs.myshopify.com/blogs/news/113278853-viking-knives\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">permitted to keep one</a> in their possession.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Seax, the iconic Viking Knife \" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_22/VKN_Blog-images---Vikings-weapons_5.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"Seax, the Viking Knife\" /></p>\n\n<p>The Seax was a much higher quality knife, owned by the wealthy within Viking society. It was much larger and more lethal than the typical fighting knife, often having a curved blade.</p>\n\n<p>Although these top 5 Viking weapons were the most typically used by the Scandinavian people during this period in medieval history, they were far from the only ones used.</p>\n\n<p>The Vikings were versatile warriors, who were more than capable of picking up any form of weaponry and using it, if need be, in a pinch. The Vikings were much more than just brutish warriors as many would have them illustrated.</p>\n\n<p>They were also skilled craftsmen who were capable of producing armaments of defense and beautiful, stunning works of art, such as the Viking longboat.</p>\n\n<h3>Viking Armor</h3>\n\n<p>The Vikings, feared throughout the lands for the havoc they wracked across the coastline during the Viking age, were respected warriors known for their cunning and ruthless tactics.</p>\n\n<p>Yet, they were no fools; they knew that to survive in their way of life, they must protect themselves with armor such as shields, helmets and body armor.</p>\n\n<p>Viking armor was typically crafted out of thickly padded leather, which gave the wearer some protection from edged weapons. The average Viking often wore it into battle.</p>\n\n<p>Chainmail, another favorite form of armor at the time, was reserved for the more wealthy, as iron was in high demand and incredibly expensive.</p>\n\n<h3>Viking Helmet</h3>\n\n<p>Not all Vikings wore a helmet, however, if they were able to, they did, as the added protection saved many lives in close quarter combat.</p>\n\n<p>The Viking helmet was relatively simple in construction, often being a simple bowl shape in design with a metal nose guard protruding from the center.</p>\n\n<p>Despite popular belief, there is little evidence to suggest that Viking helmets <a href=\"http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/viking_helmets.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">were adorned with horns</a>, as they often depicted having. Horns gave little to no additional protection and were just another thing for an enemy to grab hold to during combat. Viking warriors were nothing if not practical.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Typical Viking shield\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_22/VKN_Blog-images---Vikings-weapons_2.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"Viking shield\" /></p>\n\n<h3>Viking Shield</h3>\n\n<p>The history of the Viking shield is an interesting one. Only a few examples of them have survived throughout history, which has led to a series of debates amongst historians about their construction methods.</p>\n\n<p>However, some prized artifacts have been found, answering some questions.</p>\n\n<p>During the Viking Age, warriors charged into battle wielding a shield, which was typically round in design and <a href=\"http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/viking_shields.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ranged on average 30-35 inches in diameter</a>.</p>\n\n<p>A warrior usually crafted their shield by themselves, customizing it to match their fighting style and size.  A Viking shield could neither be too big nor too small, as it would render the wielder too slow or too exposed, respectively.</p>\n\n<p>All surviving examples of Viking shields are made from solid butted planks, which consist of spruce, fir or pine.</p>\n\n<h3>Viking Ship</h3>\n\n<p>We would be doing a disservice if we did not touch on the marvel known as the Viking Longships, feared across the known world during the Viking age.</p>\n\n<p>Without the Viking boat, the Vikings rise to power would never have happened and their style of warfare which resulted in their rapid spread would have been dead in the water.</p>\n\n<p>Norsemen were likely the most capable seaman of their time, sailing their boats around the world and reaching as far as America in the West and Asia Minor in the East.</p>\n\n<p>Contemporary foreign sources of the period describe the Viking boat as follows:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>The Viking ships had flexible, clinker-built hulls that followed the waves as living beings.</li>\n\t<li>The best ships are compared to dragons, birds and sea serpents.</li>\n\t<li>The Viking ships could quickly be drawn up on a beach.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Viking ships contained many different kinds of weapons\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_22/VKN_Blog-images---Vikings-weapons_4.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"Viking longship\" /></p>\n\n<p>Although many stories have been passed down throughout the ages, very few Viking longboats were discovered to this day. When they are, they are already broken and shattered to pieces.</p>\n\n<p>Regardless, the reality is apparent: the Viking Age was dominated by the Viking longboat, as these brave warriors sailed the seas, pillaging, conquering and permanently placing themselves in the history books until the end of time as some of the most capable warriors this world has ever seen.</p>\n","date":"7/10/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_22/VKN_Blog-images---Vikings-weapons.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13226"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/best-browser/"},"strings":{"title":"What is the Best Browser for Gaming? The Top 6 Browsers","category":"Insights","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"300000","description":"<p>Are you into online games, but tired of glitches, popups, and latency issues? If you're looking for the best browser for your gaming needs, search no more.</p>\n\n<p>Read on to discover more about some of the best browsers for 2021 gaming. <strong>Focusing on safety, speed, and reliability, this guide is designed to help you find the best browser for your needs.</strong></p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">{{banner:default}}</p>\n\n<h2>Google Chrome</h2>\n\n<p>According to statistics, Chrome remains the most popular browser out there, with <a href=\"https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">over 90% of market shares</a>. </p>\n\n<p>However, just because it’s the most popular, doesn’t mean it’s the best browse for online gaming.</p>\n\n<p>One thing everyone knows is that Chrome is fast. There are many metrics for measuring the speed of a browser, but several platforms have noted that Google now auto-blocks any ads that violate Coalition for Better Ads guidelines. In practice, this means there are fewer things to load per page meaning faster page load times.</p>\n\n<p>The browser works well on mobiles too, meaning you’ve got great cross-platform compatibility. When you combine this with fewer pop-ups and fast loading times, <strong>Chrome is, arguably, the best browser for HTML5 type of games</strong>, both on <a href=\"/en/games/platform/pc-games/\">desktop</a> and <a href=\"/en/games/platform/mobile-games/\">mobile</a>.</p>\n\n<p>However, Chrome is a notorious <a href=\"/en/blog/ddr5-ram/\">RAM</a> hog, especially if you're using multiple tabs. <em>For this reason, it's recommended that you minimize the number of windows you have open when gaming.</em></p>\n\n<h2>Safari</h2>\n\n<p>When you consider Safari’s place in gaming, it's perhaps obvious to say that it's the best choice Mac users, as it’s been designed specifically for Apple devices. Don't let its nature as a default browser fool you, however, as Safari has also proved itself as an excellent choice for Facebook games no matter your OS.</p>\n\n<p>Because Safari 11 gives users the option to auto-block videos, it means you’re faced with fewer distractions and data drains. As Facebook continues to ramp up its video ads, it’s nice to have a browser that can shut them off. The only real downside is that, like most browsers, Flash is no longer supported.</p>\n\n<h2>Internet Explorer 11</h2>\n\n<p>Some people love to criticize Internet Explorer because it’s not the fastest browser on the market, mainly because many people grew up with a sluggish search experience. While it still may not be the quickest, it is still one of the best browsers around.</p>\n\n<p>IE11 uses your Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) for all graphics and text rendering, and it’s capable of processing graphics-heavy pages more efficiently. This is great for strategy MMO players, who play <a href=\"/en/games/platform/browser-games/\">games on their browser</a> with a lot of units and action on-screen simultaneously.</p>\n\n<p>Additionally, with IE being the default browser for older versions of Windows, the latest software is compatible with the touch browsing capabilities of Windows 8, making it a great fit for mobile and tablet devices.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"The best browsers change the way we connect\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/speed.jpg\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Microsoft Edge</h2>\n\n<p>Although it’s still somewhat underused by gaming fans, <a href=\"https://news.microsoft.com/en-gb/2018/04/26/these-are-the-new-features-you-have-to-try-in-xboxs-next-update/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Edge links perfectly with Xbox Live</a>. By accessing the browser via the console, you can not only pick up where they left off in a game, but also mute any unnecessary sounds, read page content aloud, and upload files to their PC.</p>\n\n<p>Edge stands out as a great browser for console gamers, especially for users already integrated into Microsoft's Xbox ecosystem. Edge also uses <a href=\"https://www.tomsguide.com/news/chrome-firefox-edge-ram-comparison\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">less RAM than Chrome or Firefox</a>, which is a big plus for players on older systems.</p>\n\n<p>The big downside? Edge no longer supports Macromedia's Flash. Noticing a pattern yet?</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/plarium-play/download-guest/?plid=147426&pxl=seo&appId=27\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>Firefox</h2>\n\n<p>Once enjoying around a 30% share of the browser marketplace, Firefox is no longer the force it once was.</p>\n\n<p>That said, Firefox is still one of the safest and most reliable web browsers, though, comparatively, not as fast.</p>\n\n<p>In 2020, however, thanks to the Firefox Quantum update, the browser now uses less RAM - though still more than most. If you were a former Firefox user who was discouraged due to slow speeds, it might be worth re-investigating.</p>\n\n<p>Firefox also works well with virtual and augmented reality, and <a href=\"https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/04/03/mozilla-brings-firefox-augmented-virtual-reality/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">can now process VR and AR content more efficiently</a> after their 2018 update.</p>\n\n<p>It’s fair to say Firefox is one of the top browsers for PC games - as long as you don't want to play Flash games, of course.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Security is an important element for the best browsers\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/security.jpg\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Opera</h2>\n\n<p>Despite being one of the lesser-user browsers, Opera easily punches above its weight. In fact, Opera can be considered one of the fastest browsers out there for those with slow systems.</p>\n\n<p>Opera has a turbo protocol that reroutes traffic, increasing processing speeds for users with low bandwidth. It also compresses data, so pages load faster, as well as auto-blocking unwanted adverts.</p>\n\n<p>Thanks to this trio of features, users can enjoy browser <a href=\"/en/games/genre/mmo-games/\">MMO games</a> even if they don’t have a powerful desktop or connection. Furthermore, Opera, unlike the others on this page, still supports Flash - as well as also being a high-powered gaming browser by today's standards.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"The best browser depends on user needs\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/availability.jpg\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Choose the Best Browser for Your Gaming Needs</h2>\n\n<p>The browser industry is so varied, with each company excelling in different areas, so the reality is that each product has its pros and cons.</p>\n\n<p>In terms of convenience, Google Chrome is the best for gaming, because it’s fast and easier to set up for HTML5 games.</p>\n\n<p>However, Firefox is a great alternative, and its VR and AR support makes it a serious contender, standing out as an early frontrunner in terms of supporting next-gen technology.</p>\n\n<p>If you're a fan of older, non-HTML5 titles, then Opera is essentially your only choice. 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You’ve survived sniper fire and out of control vehicles, and took down your fair share of rival players.</p>\n\n<p>The battle is reaching its inevitable climax.</p>\n\n<p>{{banner:default}}</p>\n\n<p>The tension mounts as you discover that there are only you and one opponent left. You can practically taste that chicken dinner. You creep around the side of the one remaining house on the map, sliding stealthily through the side door, when…. <em><strong>BANG! </strong></em>Standing, or rather ‘camping’ behind it is the same guy that has killed you in the previous round.</p>\n\n<p>In fact, it feels like this person has been stalking you all day, popping up at every turn, and ruining any hope you ever had of winning a match. The red mist begins to descend.</p>\n\n<p>Further down in this post we will discuss in detail each of these 5 steps in order to rage less, and enjoy the game more:</p>\n\n<ol>\n\t<li>\n\t<p><em><strong>Take a Break</strong></em></p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p><em><strong>Lower That Difficulty</strong></em></p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p><em><strong>Watch, Learn, Rinse, Repeat</strong></em></p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p><em><strong>Take Your Anger Elsewhere</strong></em></p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p><em><strong>Ask for Help</strong></em></p>\n\t</li>\n</ol>\n\n<p>But first, some basic background information:</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"reacting-to-video-games\">Reacting to Video Games</h2>\n\n<p>When this happens, we generally fall into one of two categories, we either A) realize what is happening within our own mind and try to cool down, or B) we end up stressing out, screaming out loud, or in the case of some - hurling the controller across the room.</p>\n\n<p>If you fall into the first category, then you most probably know how to control the anger that bubbles up inside the vast majority of us when we lose at a <a href=\"/en/games/\">game</a>. But if you happen to fall into the second category, things can take a rather unpleasant turn.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"why-does-gamer-rage-happen?\">Why Does Gamer Rage Happen?</h2>\n\n<p><strong>The reasons that we experience ‘gamer rage’ are no different from those for road rage or any other sort of anger management issues.</strong> It is often rooted in the perceived feeling of not being good enough or being mistreated, and it is hard to ignore.</p>\n\n<p>Now, there is always the option to put the game down and stop playing, but for those of us who put video games at the top of our ‘pleasurable activities list,’ this is something we don’t really want to do.</p>\n\n<p>So, is it possible to completely control and lower our stress levels when playing games? Or is the suppression of these feelings the best we can hope for? Well, that very much depends on you and whether you can identify your triggers early.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"warning-signs-of-video-game-rage\">Warning Signs of Video Game Rage</h2>\n\n<p>Triggers are aspects of games that begin the cycle of anger we experience when ‘gamer rage’ rears its ugly head. These triggers are present for all of us, and some are worse than others.</p>\n\n<p>Similar to the aspects of life we enjoy, our triggers vary from person to person. For some of us, it could be when a particular player seems to target us repeatedly. For others, it could simply be struggling to pass a certain level. In general, these triggers tend to be <a href=\"https://www.futurity.org/frustration-fuels-video-gamers-aggression/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">related to performance rather than the game content</a>.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Many things can trigger your gamer rage\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/rage-2.webp\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 555px;\" title=\"Many things can trigger your gamer rage\" /></p>\n\n<h2 id=\"what-are-the-main-symptoms-of-gamer-rage?\">What Are the Main Symptoms of Gamer Rage?</h2>\n\n<p>You can usually recognize it the moment you start to feel like your thoughts are out of your control. It is often accompanied by a raised heart rate, faster breathing, sometimes shaking, and the clear sense of utter rage. The clenching of teeth, sweating, stomach aches, and even dizziness have all been reported as early warning signs of an impending rage. There are other symptoms, but it really does depend on your particular psyche as to whether you exhibit them.</p>\n\n<p>Find our what your triggers are, and you are on your way to dealing with them. If you find it hard to decipher what exactly is triggering you, it may help to ask a friend who you play with regularly. Those of us who ‘rage quit’ games regularly may notice that it is easier to see the triggers from the outside, rather than from within.</p>\n\n<p>Here are our top 5 tips to decrease gamer rage's instances and its effect on us:</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"1.-take-a-break\">1. Take a Break</h2>\n\n<p>Taking a break from a particularly frustrating level is something that should help you calm down quickly. Just like with many other problems, taking your mind off the game can immediately make you feel more relaxed. It also has a critical side-effect of sometimes improving your performance on your return.</p>\n\n<p>Ever spent hours trying to pass a level on a game, only to take a short break, come back and beat it immediately? That may not be a coincidence. A <a href=\"https://www.spring.org.uk/2012/07/the-incubation-effect-how-to-break-through-a-mental-block.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">learning technique called “incubation”</a> has been discussed in the music industry from quite some time, and the idea centers around the fact that your brain will continue to decipher the things you learn in everyday life, even when you are not consciously thinking about them. This mostly happens when we sleep, often letting us wake up with a fresh perspective on a problem.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Taking a break from playing helps deal with gamer rage\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/rage-3.webp\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 555px;\" title=\"Take a break\" /></p>\n\n<p>This phenomenon was initially observed in musicians learning new instruments, but the premise is the same for any skill you wish to learn. If you are gaming into the small hours with diminishing success, perhaps it might be time to take a little break or call it a night and start fresh tomorrow.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"2.-lower-that-difficulty\">2. Lower That Difficulty</h2>\n\n<p>The next option might be considered a cop-out, but it is worth considering.</p>\n\n<p>No matter what your friends may say, turning down the difficulty is <strong>NOT </strong>a criminal offense. If you find that a game has stopped being fun, is it really that much of a sin to lower the difficulty a notch?</p>\n\n<p>Purists may scorn, but we aren’t all born with cat-like reflexes or the patience of a saint. We shouldn’t feel guilty for wanting to complete a game either.</p>\n\n<p>The only reason anyone plays video games is to have fun, so when that stops, it may be time to finally admit you are more of a hey, not too rough kinda person.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"3.-watch,-learn,-rinse,-repeat\">3. Watch, Learn, Rinse, Repeat</h2>\n\n<p>If turning down the difficulty makes you recoil in abject horror (or if you are playing an online game, it's just impossible) then you really are only left with one option. You need to get better.</p>\n\n<p>Now, you may think that is a trite statement, and to a point it is, but with the resources available to us these days, you really haven’t exhausted all avenues unless you have watched a tutorial video or two.</p>\n\n<p>If full-on walkthroughs are not your style, then perhaps a video that discusses tips and techniques would suit you better? Or for sports and competitive online games, watching a few experts on Twitch could give you a new take on why you happen to be so embarrassingly poor at a particular game.</p>\n\n<p>‘Knowledge is power,’ as they say, so find out who are the best players in the world at your game and start taking notes.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"4.-take-your-anger-elsewhere\">4. Take Your Anger Elsewhere</h2>\n\n<p>When you simply can’t calm down, sometimes it can be a cathartic experience to take your anger out somewhere else.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Making time for other hobbies and interests lowers the chances of gamer rage \" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/rage-4.webp\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 555px;\" title=\"Take Your Anger Elsewhere\" /></p>\n\n<p>If you do find other activities alleviate stress for you, it might be a good idea to do just that. For those of you who own a boxing bag, the answer would seem obvious, but for those who don’t, taking a break from that challenging game and loading up another that you practically have a doctorate in could give you that much-needed relief from failing over and over.</p>\n\n<p>Once you have found your heart rate is back to normal, you can pour yourself a lemon iced-tea, light a candle, and try to tackle that unforgiving game again.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"5.-ask-for-help\">5. Ask for Help</h2>\n\n<p>If you are someone who is generally quick to anger, be that in gaming or other aspects of your life, it could be a good idea to <a href=\"http://www.priorygroup.com/mental-health/anger-management/symptoms-of-anger-management\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">look into real anger-management</a> and self-help techniques.</p>\n\n<p>Being \"mindful\" of your overall mental health is nothing to be sneered at. For those who suffer from anger issues, these facets can impede our happiness to a point where it affects our work life or our relationships. If things ever get to this level, learning how to avoid these situations and how to deal with them could be imperative in cementing your long-term happiness.</p>\n\n<p>Learning breathing techniques, how to clear your mind, and how to distract yourself can mean the difference between being the best version of yourself possible, and being that angry person that other people tend to avoid.</p>\n\n<p>If your anger is getting out of control, never feel embarrassed about wanting to seek help. It is a widespread problem and one that is much easier to deal with once you possess the right knowledge.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"it’s-supposed-to-be-fun,-right?\">It’s Supposed to Be Fun, Right?</h2>\n\n<p>The most important piece of information to take away from this is that gamer rage doesn't mean that you need to stop playing games. It is worth remembering that the vast majority of us are very passionate when playing video games, and that passion can sometimes lead to angry when things don't go our way.</p>\n\n<p>Rather than thinking you need to eradicate all negative feeling while you play, be aware that you can appease these feelings, without taking the ‘edge’ out of your game.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Don't rage quit - have fun!\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/rage-5.webp\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 555px;\" title=\"Don't rage quit - have fun\" /></p>\n\n<p>Stress is what we are looking to avoid in our downtime, so go easy on yourself next time you are on a poor run. If you continuously come away from a gaming session feeling angry and drained, it will be worth your while to address the issue head-on. We all feel the urge to \"rage quit\" from time to time, but when it interferes with our enjoyment of gaming, a change is needed. Frustration is fine - anger isn’t; so for the sake of your own mental health, address the problem rather than letting it define you.</p>\n","date":"6/19/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"alt":"Gamer rage can take all the fun out of gaming","href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/rage-header.webp"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13219"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/we-play-war-games/"},"strings":{"title":"War Games: Why Do We Love Playing at War","category":"Insights","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"480000","description":"<p>War is horrible. No one wants to go to war, or live through one.</p>\n\n<p>So what is it about slipping into the muddy boots of a WWII soldier, tightly grasping the plasma cannon of a space marine, or sending your troops to a bloody adventure that we love so much?</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Why do we play war games?\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_24/why-we-love-playing-war-games-1.jpg\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 628px;\" title=\"Why do we play war games?\" /></p>\n\n<p>The fact is, there is a whole multitude of reasons. However, what we're interested in are the most basic thoughts, feelings, and emotions that make us want to play <a href=\"/en/games/genre/war-games/\">war games</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Naturally, before we delve into our psyches and have ourselves a shootout with the forces of darkness, we need first to define what is a war game.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">{{banner:default}}</p>\n\n<h2>What are War Games?</h2>\n\n<p>It is a common belief that all war games have the same three characteristics:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>The War Aspect</li>\n\t<li>The Game Aspect</li>\n\t<li>The Simulation Aspect</li>\n</ul>\n\n<h3><strong>The War Aspect</strong></h3>\n\n<p>Not all games are actually about war.</p>\n\n<p>Part of what makes a game a war game is simulating the “the activity of war” and the right vocabulary and jargon.</p>\n\n<p>Only games that depict the act of war, not necessarily realistically, can be called war games. The concept doesn’t have to be front and center, but an online war game can’t be one without war.</p>\n\n<h3><strong>The Game Aspect</strong></h3>\n\n<p>Not all war simulation can, or should be classed as war games.</p>\n\n<p>For example, military maneuvers may be a simulation of war, but they don’t have a lot to do with gaming.</p>\n\n<p>If the previous aspect enforced the idea that a war game needs to deal with war, this one emphasizes that a war game needs to be an actual game.</p>\n\n<p>Games usually compel participants to compete against each other or cooperate against a common enemy. This in turn, “forces” players to think creatively and come up with new strategies to complete their goal.</p>\n\n<p>If a simulation provides opportunities for strategic thinking, then you can call it a war game.</p>\n\n<h3><strong>The Simulation Aspect</strong></h3>\n\n<p>Good war games simulate actual war in some way.</p>\n\n<p>They do so in various levels of realism, but by definition, playing them should provide some insight into the world of warfare (without the actual death part). From strategic planning to the conditions a person may encounter, these games replicate a situation of war to a greater or lesser degree.</p>\n\n<p>Most games do not focus on educating their players about what’s it like to fight a war or lead an army, but that is a byproduct of any good war game.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"The three aspects of war games\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_24/why-we-love-playing-war-games-2.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 400px;\" title=\"The three aspects of war\" /></p>\n\n<p>The United States military, as well as other armies around the world, have historically valued the simulation army games can provide.; so much so, that the US Army has developed its own army game as a <a href=\"https://www.americasarmy.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">training and recruitment tool</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Now, this isn't to say that every war game is trying to be like the real thing.</p>\n\n<p>Every war game exhibits some level of the three aspects we've outlined here. However, that doesn’t mean they all exist in equal measure. Usually, promoting one aspect will most likely result in diminishing the other two. The more game-like your game is, the less of <a href=\"/en/blog/city-building-games/\">a simulation</a> it becomes, and vice-versa.</p>\n\n<p>For example, fantasy <a href=\"/en/games/genre/mmo-games/\">MMO</a> war games work great as games, and they do deal with the subject matter of war, but they aren’t very good war simulations. Nevertheless, they are still war games.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/plarium-play/download-guest/?plid=147426&pxl=seo&appId=27\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>The History of War Games</h2>\n\n<p>Games about war have been around for centuries.</p>\n\n<p>We’ve been playing at war ever since someone picked up a deck of cards and invented the popular card game “War” (when that happened precisely is lost to history). Ever since, we have been pretending to be at war in every medium imaginable, from cards to board games to video games.</p>\n\n<p>The first video game about war was \"Spacewar!\". It was a space combat game developed in 1962 on the PDP-1 minicomputer. Incidentally, “Spacewar!” is also one of the first video games ever made, which tells us a little bit about human nature and the games we like to play.</p>\n\n<h3>The First War Game</h3>\n\n<p>However, the first war game was developed in February 1980, and was called “Computer Bismarck.” It was a turn-based strategy game where players acted as the British forces, fighting against the battleship Bismarck and other German units. The German side was controlled by another player or by a computer AI, called “Otto Von Computer.”</p>\n\n<p>As you can see below, “Computer Bismarck” wasn’t much to look at. You can barely make out Great Britain (on the right) or Iceland (at the top) against the purple Atlantic Ocean.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Computer Bismarck was the first war game\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_23/compbismarck15.jpg\" style=\"width: 620px; height: 326px;\" title=\"Computer Bismarck was the first war game\" /></p>\n\n<p>Since then, war games have made tremendous strides and became the most popular type of video game. The rise of the first-person shooter in the 1990s gave birth to blockbuster franchises such as Call of Duty, Battlefield, and Wolfenstein. They helped establish war as the “go-to” subject of video games. 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You just want to be <strong>better </strong>than the person on the other side of the screen.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Competition is a major incentive in war games\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_39/war-general-illustration-3.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 464px;\" title=\"We constantly compete to be better than one another\" /></p>\n\n<p>To put it another way, we all want to be a big fish in a small pond.</p>\n\n<p>Of course, as you progress through the game, your pond will gradually increase in size. 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A host of different experiences are now available to gamers who immerse themselves in this world and, whether you are a fan of steampunk, anime or modern warfare, you are sure to be able to find the MMO game that suits your tastes.</p>\n\n<p>While fantasy also remains as popular as ever, other genres to have emerged include titles rooted in science fiction, horror and even the Wild West.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week1/images/6.png\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 555px;\" /></p>\n\n<h2>A multimedia phenomenon</h2>\n\n<p>This incredible range and array of styles has helped MMO gaming become a dominant force in the online world. It is thought that the number of active users playing some of the genre’s biggest games runs into the millions, with smaller titles even going on to keep thousands of people entertained every year.</p>\n\n<p>The genre’s influence has even been felt outside of just gaming, with top titles inspiring spin-offs including novels and even big-screen adaptations. 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Their goal is to make the ultimate warrior who can stand again the unlimited horde – and win!</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Soldiers video games are one of the most popular gaming genres\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/soldiers-inc-mobile-warfare/main/image6.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 577px;\" /></p>\n\n<h2>What Makes a Soldier?</h2>\n\n<p>The ability and readiness to fight is an important part of being a soldier. What really makes the difference between soldier and fighter is the willingness to stand for something more.</p>\n\n<p>In other words, the distinction between a soldier and a warrior is that a soldier fights as part of a team. This is usually - but not necessarily -  an official government supported group. The same goes for soldier games as well, naturally.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Real-life soldiers are the basis for many solder video games\" src=\"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week_7/soldiers5.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 591px;\" title=\"Soldiers on a mission\" /></p>\n\n<p>To reach the level of hero, a soldier must make it their goal to fight on behalf of something bigger. Whether they're fighting for an idea or a people, soldier video games paint these soldiers as protectors and not mindless aggressors.</p>\n\n<p>This can be a little tricky, however. There are some super soldier video games where the player controls a traditional soldier, but one who has gone rogue. <em><strong>Kratos </strong></em>from God of War is a good example of this.</p>\n\n<p>While he was originally a Spartan soldier, he soon abandons this in order to pursue his own goals. Compare this with the Spartan warriors, who seek to defend their collective people.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Soldier games also include warriors from ancient civilizations\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/new/strategy.jpg\" style=\"width: 522px; height: 636px;\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Which Soldier Game Genres Have the Strongest Soldiers?</h2>\n\n<p>When we speak of super soldiers, we tend to think of <a href=\"/en/games/genre/war-games/\">war</a> or <a href=\"/en/games/genre/adventure-games/\">action adventure games</a>. If we look deeper into the world of gaming, though, we can find examples in far more genres than just super soldier video games.</p>\n\n<p>Soldier games are a good start, as an umbrella term for all genres involving soldiers, but we can also look to genres like <a href=\"/en/games/genre/rpg-games/\">RPGs</a> and <a href=\"/en/games/genre/strategy-games/\">strategy games</a>, to be more specific. Here we find some of the most commanding and powerful units on the battlefield.</p>\n\n<h3>Basic vs. Hero Units</h3>\n\n<p>While most of the controllable masses in these games are basic units, the real work and game-changing power come from the hero units.</p>\n\n<p>These fighters not only have an incredible base level of strength, but they can also grow stronger. By leveling up and equipping new gear, these units can become much more powerful the longer the battle persists.</p>\n\n<p>So, should we avoid traditional army soldier games in favor of this sort of fighter? Not so fast!</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Soldier games can be similar to or part of a different genre\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/old/portal/games/stormfall/en/blog/1/sf_blog_3.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 281px;\" /></p>\n\n<p>While RPG and strategy units can prove immensely powerful in taking care of groups, they also lack a level of direct control. This desired control is only really possible through first or third-person <a href=\"/en/games/genre/shooting-games/\">shooters</a>.</p>\n\n<p>In practice, this would mean taking the power and growth potential from RPG and strategy games. Here we would place it within an FPS or TPS environment – combining power and control into one almighty whole.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/plarium-play/download-guest/?plid=147426&pxl=seo&appId=27\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>How is a Soldier Born and Raised?</h2>\n\n<p>Becoming a soldier is not just a matter of taking up arms and fighting for a cause. At least, that is, not for the best of the best. In order to become the ultimate soldier, a warrior must be born understanding the struggle.</p>\n\n<p>They must train throughout their life in order to stand against whatever threat might raise its head.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"505\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/KiDfiZsh7XY\" width=\"853\"></iframe></p>\n\n<p>The best soldiers, from the Mongole Empire warriors, through the Aztec warriors and all the way to the Vikings - they all share the same basic beginning.</p>\n\n<p>They are born into a time of conflict and chaos. It is only through understanding the necessities and realities of this world that a warrior can forge themselves. Through practice, they temper against whatever may appear - enemies both known and unknown.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Just like real-life missions, not every soldier game is the same\" src=\"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week_7/soldiers4.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 594px;\" title=\"Lone soldier\" /></p>\n\n<p>This doesn’t mean that the soldiers themselves necessarily needs to be born for greatness. Through soldier war games, even the most average individuals might find themselves discovering something deep within when exposed to extreme circumstances - not unlike reality.</p>\n\n<p>With this, they could find themselves rising above all expectations and unlocking something new inside them.</p>\n\n<h2>What Motivates a Soldier?</h2>\n\n<p>The basic strength of a soldier comes from within, but it is only through others that this strength is able to take form. This creates an individual capable of exceeding the abilities achieved of one person alone.</p>\n\n<p>Rising above the rank and file requires more than just a reverence for duty. It needs a deeper motivation, a drive which sets a super soldier above the rest. The most guiding factor here is one borne of the desire to protect.</p>\n\n<h3>Who is a Super Soldier?</h3>\n\n<p>While all soldiers fight for this end, a super soldier will understand this more deeply than most. Mostly likely, such a soldier game character would have experienced what might happen if the enemy succeeds first-hand.</p>\n\n<p>This creates a dichotomy within the super soldier. Fighting on the highest possible level requires letting go of the compassion which pushes them forward.</p>\n\n<p>Easy enough when the enemy is a demon, but considerably more difficult when pit against a fellow man.</p>\n\n<h3>Hero or Villain?</h3>\n\n<p>In this way, our ultimate soldier must be able to shift their focus rapidly between intellectualism, brutality and compassion. One slip off of this balance, even for a second, can make the difference between hero and villain.</p>\n\n<p>Such a super soldier must have the motivation to keep each section of themselves accessible, yet simultaneously measured.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Like actual soldiers, soldiers in video games do need a lot of training\" src=\"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week_7/soldiers6.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 592px;\" /></p>\n\n<h2>What Gear and Skills Does a Soldier Need?</h2>\n\n<p>When gearing up for combat, a super soldier doesn’t just need weaponry and armor. They also need a wide range of tools and skills to find the best solution to any given problem.</p>\n\n<p>A standard load-out for a soldier might cover all of their needs in basic combat, but that is just a start. It is only through creativity and the dexterity which comes through practice that this gear will lift them <em>from soldier to super soldier</em>.</p>\n\n<h3>Super Soldier Skills</h3>\n\n<p>Super soldiers are expected to fight far stronger enemies, and against far worse odds, than their non-super counterparts. Going in guns blazing might still be a feasible solution, but it’s not always the best course of action.</p>\n\n<p>Fighting smarter can be better than fighting harder, and can save many more lives in the process.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Developing characters in soldier games\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/vikings-war-of-clans/screenshots/2.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 577px;\" title=\"Vikings: War of Clans Hero\" /></p>\n\n<h3>Super Soldier Gear</h3>\n\n<p>Here are three of the most important tool types the super soldier would need:</p>\n\n<ol>\n\t<li><strong>Armor</strong> - designed to help protect from the shrapnel and attacks from both the soldier and their enemies.</li>\n\t<li><strong>Weapons</strong> - of which melee, short-range, long-range and explosive weapons are key considerations. These could be traditional or magic, as long as they fulfill the same basic function.</li>\n\t<li><strong>Knowledge</strong> – the ability to use these in traditional and unique ways. This is further aided by the technical knowhow to work with whatever unpredictable situation the soldier finds themselves in.</li>\n</ol>\n\n<h2>How Would the Most Powerful Soldier Evolve?</h2>\n\n<p>Not everything which makes a super soldier powerful can be learned in training. The ultimate soldier grows after each battle.</p>\n\n<p>In terms of experience, this growth could be generated through the player themselves. After each battle, we grow more familiar with each enemy. We become better accustomed to their attack patterns, and we unravel their strengths and weaknesses.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Combat Soldiers can make excellent soldier game players\" src=\"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week_7/soldiers7.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 592px;\" title=\"Combat Soldiers\" /></p>\n\n<p>This experience could also manifest as character power, with our super-soldier leveling up through experience points. Traditionally this results in higher hit points, but there are also many other potential avenues of growth, including passive and active skills.</p>\n\n<p>Experience defeating many of a certain enemy could grant a bonus to damage against that enemy, for example. Experience with certain weapons can boost super-soldiers' effectiveness with that weapon against all enemies.</p>\n\n<h3>Additional Important Skills in Soldier Games</h3>\n\n<p>Other useful skills here can be regenerating health, ammunition or shields, the ability to dual-wield weapons, and direct weapon upgrades.</p>\n\n<p>In this way, even a starting weapon might eventually become useful against the most powerful of enemies. This could be either in terms of direct damage or for utility usage. It could stun them and open up opportunities for bigger but slower weapons to hit more effectively.</p>\n\n<h2>How to Build the Strongest Video Game Super Soldier</h2>\n\n<p>Making the strongest video game soldier would require taking all of the above traits. It would combine them into a singular entity which would put even Doomguy and Master-Chief to shame.</p>\n\n<p>The ultimate soldier would be born into a time of conflict. They would have seen the horrors that would occur should the enemy achieve their goal.</p>\n\n<p>Working alongside their fellow soldiers would give our protagonist direction. It would reveal some of their strengths and help create a base of skill from which they could work.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Inspirations for soldier video games\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/new/magic_sign_art_work2.jpg\" style=\"width: 628px; height: 863px;\" title=\"Stormfall Hero Inspiration\" /></p>\n\n<p>From here, our soldier would be thrust into combat, working alongside their team.</p>\n\n<p>They would rise to a level which none of their fellow soldiers could manage.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Soldier practicing their skills\" src=\"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week_7/soldiers2.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 592px;\" title=\"Solider\" /></p>\n\n<p>Using skills and versatility to overcome seemingly impossible odds, the ultimate soldier would grow at an unprecedented rate. This could be through either supernatural boons or their own unparalleled battle-born prowess.</p>\n\n<p>Despite this power, the ultimate soldier would never forget their roots and what they are fighting for. Resisting the corrupting draw of ultimate power, the ultimate super-soldier would live to serve, placing the needs of the many above the needs of themselves.</p>\n","date":"2/12/2019"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_17/Header_1368x384_01.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13275"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/viking-food/"},"strings":{"title":"Traditional Viking Food: What did the Vikings Actually Eat?","category":"Insights","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"360000","description":"<p>What did the Vikings eat? The standard Viking was just like any other average person during the feudal period, who grew their own crops and raised their own animals.</p>\n\n<p>Due to being located in a <em>northern </em>climate, this meant that the Vikings grew barley, oats and rye, as these were the crops that grew best in their native soil. So was this all they ate? Not exactly. Below, we take a deeper look into their eating habits, crops and livestock.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">{{banner:default}}</p>\n\n<h2>What was the Viking Food Menu Based On?</h2>\n\n<p>Meat acquired from the livestock they raised also played a major role in the Viking diet. This included cows, horses, oxen, goats, pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks. </p>\n\n<p>In addition to this, they fished and hunted their local wilderness, eking out an existence as best as they could in a harsh and demanding time period of humanities history.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"505\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/Doy4knWLCIA\" width=\"853\"></iframe></p>\n\n<p><a href=\"/en/blog/iconic-viking-weapons/\">The Viking warriors</a> were renowned and feared across the world for their skills in raiding, pillaging and plundering.</p>\n\n<p>Yet, little is known to the vast majority of people about how the average, everyday Viking lived and survived during the Age of Vikings.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Selfoss, Iceland where Viking food still exists today in one form or another\" src=\"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week_4/selfoss.jpg\" title=\"Selfoss, Iceland\" /></p>\n\n<h2>The Staples of the Viking Diet</h2>\n\n<p>The average Viking farm was small, however, it was more than large enough to provide for their own family, allowing them to be largely self sufficient.</p>\n\n<p>Sadly, the Vikings were not known to write cook books and therefore not many ancient vikings recipes exist.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"505\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/ryWrox4JHh8\" width=\"853\"></iframe></p>\n\n<h2>Crops as a Basis for Viking Food</h2>\n\n<p>However, what we do know is that the grains the Vikings grew on their farm played a large part in the daily Viking diet. </p>\n\n<p>Using the oats and barley they harvested to make a flour, which was then turned into a dough and baked over an open fire on a griddle, the Vikings created a <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatbread\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">flatbread</a>.</p>\n\n<h3>Did the Vikings Eat Vegetables?</h3>\n\n<p>In contrast to their rough image, yes - the Vikings did include vegetables in their daily diet. The Vikings grew a vast variety of vegetables. Some vegetation was acquired from the wilderness.</p>\n\n<p>These included cabbage, onions, garlic, leeks, turnips, peas and beans.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Cabbage is an example of crops, a basis for Viking Food\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week_4/cabbage.jpg\" title=\"Cabbage\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Viking Food: Protein Rich</h2>\n\n<p>The Vikings could not survive on vegetation alone and required a steady supply of protein to supplement their diets. As mentioned in the opening of this article, the Vikings raised a large assortment of livestock and thus had a large selection of protein to add to the Viking menu.</p>\n\n<p>Vikings ate beef, goat, pork, mutton, lamb and poultry. Occasionally, they also ate horse meat in times of need.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Viking food: protein rich\" src=\"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week_4/beef2.jpg\" title=\"viking protein\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Viking Usage of Resources</h2>\n\n<p>Many animals which the Vikings tended were not only raised for their meat consumption, but also for the additional resources that they created.</p>\n\n<p>Viking cows were often well advanced in their years before being slaughtered for their meat, meaning that the Vikings milked their cows for dairy.</p>\n\n<p>Going further than this, the Vikings used the dairy they acquired, crafting cheese, skyr, curds and butter.</p>\n\n<p>Also, the Vikings gathered both duck and chicken eggs, of which made up a steady part of their diets.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/plarium-play/download-guest/?plid=147426&pxl=seo&appId=27\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<p>Additionally, the Vikings were skilled fishermen and hunters.</p>\n\n<p>They fished whatever fish they could acquire both from the ocean and from nearby freshwater sources. This was easily accomplished due to Viking settlements typically being located on the coastline.</p>\n\n<p>Fishing in fact made up such a large part of the Viking diet, that it is estimated it constituted 25% of their diet.</p>\n\n<h2>The Viking Meals</h2>\n\n<p>Having to grow, harvest, hunt, or gather their own food meant that the Vikings had to stick to a strict schedule and work as hard as they possibly could, in the time that they were given.</p>\n\n<p>Most of norse food was seasonal and therefore they needed to “make hay” while the sun shined, with little time to waste, they rose at the crack of dawn and began their daily chores.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Illustration of Haakon Jarl and his wife Tora Skagesdatter during a traditional Viking meal\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week_4/haakon_jarl.jpg\" /></p>\n\n<p>The first meal of the day was known as the “dagmál”, or “day meal”. This was the Vikings breakfast and was ate typically one to two hours after the days chores had begun. </p>\n\n<p>For the dagmál, the adults would usually eat some leftover stew from the cauldron, from the previous nights meal. Along with this, they would usually eat some bread and fruit if available.</p>\n\n<p>The children would have a serving of porridge and a combination of bread, dried fruits, or buttermilk.</p>\n\n<p>The second and last Viking meal of the day was known as the “náttmál”, or “night-meal”, and was held at the end of a working day.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Viking stew\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week_4/viking_stew.jpg\" title=\"viking stew\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Content of the Viking Meals</h2>\n\n<p>Meals were usually a fish or meat stew, prepared with vegetables, paired with bread. </p>\n\n<p>Occasionally, some fruits or nuts sweetened with honey, which was the only sweetener that the Vikings had at their disposal.</p>\n\n<p>To go along with their meals, the Vikings drank ale mead and buttermilk, all of which they crafted themselves.</p>\n\n<p>Once the náttmál was finished, the Viking day was largely complete.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Valhalla had some of the most famous Viking food\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week_4/valhalla.jpg\" title=\"Valhalla\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Viking Food Preparation</h2>\n\n<p>Many tools have survived from ancient Viking history and were typical of other households during the Middle Ages.</p>\n\n<p>These tools would look surprisingly familiar to most people today - this is because the Vikings were quite advanced and would eat their food with <strong>handmade wooden utensils and skewers</strong>, that look similar to what we use today.</p>\n\n<p>Once readied, the meat, along with the other ingredients that would be used to make the Vikings stew would be boiled in an iron, clay, or soapstone pot over the máleldr or “meal-fire”, which was the hearth used for cooking.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Rosala Viking Center showing Viking food preparation\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2019/week_4/Inside_Viking_House_in_Rosala_Viking_Center_in_Finland.jpg\" title=\"Rosala Viking Center\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Viking Food as the Base for Traditional Scandinavian Food</h2>\n\n<p>Sadly, as was mentioned previously, the Vikings did not record their recipes during the Age of Vikings. </p>\n\n<p>However, as the Vikings slowly transitioned and evolved from their “old ways” of raiding, pillaging and warfare, they began to integrate themselves more and more into everyday European life.</p>\n\n<h3>European Food Integrating in the Viking Diet</h3>\n\n<p>As their way of living evolved, they also began to adopt many of the culinary practices of their neighbours, integrating different spices and ingredients into their traditional norse food.</p>\n\n<p>The recipes and styles of cooking that followed this time period is what is now considered traditional Scandinavian food.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"505\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/hfU4Z4YtZgM\" width=\"853\"></iframe></p>\n\n<p>Although many of ancient Viking recipes are delicious in their own right, Scandinavian food has continued to evolve and become even more delicious, while at the same time still pays homage to the ancient ways.</p>\n\n<p>To this day, chefs from the Scandinavian region continue to reproduce, recreate and reinvent these ancient recipes, while at the same time plough forward into the new age, crafting delicious new meals that would make their ancestors proud.</p>\n","date":"1/24/2019"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/old/blog/en/2016/11/17.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13274"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/conventions/"},"strings":{"title":"20 Epic Geek Conventions You Need to Visit at Least Once in Your Life","category":"Insights","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"840000","description":"<p>For geeks, gamers, and self-identified nerds, there's nothing quite like a convention.</p>\n\n<p>Conventions allow us to meet up with like-minded fans who share the same interests and discuss our wild fan theories, hopes, and dreams for our favorite franchises. We can even get to meet the biggest names and creators behind the best geeky <a href=\"/en/games/\">games</a> and media.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">{{banner:default}}</p>\n\n<p>There are dozens of conventions around the world, catering to different groups: anime fans, gamers, and comic book geeks. Below, we've highlighted 20 of the very best conventions worth visiting, giving you all of the need-to-know information to start planning your next trip.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"The best conventions allow us to meet up with like-minded fans\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_49/image-1.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 400px;\" title=\"Conventions allow us to meet up with like-minded fans\" /></p>\n\n<h2 id=\"best-gaming-conventions\">BEST GAMING CONVENTIONS</h2>\n\n<h2 id=\"e3\">E3</h2>\n\n<p>The Electronic Entertainment Expo, better known as E3, is probably the best-known gaming event in the world. The big three gaming companies, Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo all use this convention to reveal exclusive games and new consoles, while famous publishers such as EA and Ubisoft host their own E3 events as well.</p>\n\n<p>Originally designed to give members of the press a chance to get hands-on with new games and get scoops for reporting, members of the public have since E3 2017.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"https://www.e3expo.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.e3expo.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Location:</u></strong> Los Angeles, California (USA)</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Dates:</u></strong> Every year in June</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Ticket price:</u></strong> $150 (early bird special) / $250 </p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Why it's so popular:</u></strong> E3 is an event that combines gaming and geekery with Hollywood as some of the biggest names not just in gaming, but in the world, have been known to attend. It's always chock full of huge announcements too so even if you aren't attending, you'll likely be following everything that goes on at E3 online.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"505\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/UKuS1BxVaSk\" width=\"853\"></iframe></p>\n\n<h2 id=\"gamescom\">Gamescom</h2>\n\n<p>Even bigger than E3 is German-based games convention Gamescom. This annual convention is known as the world's largest gaming event, as it draws in more than a quarter of a million attendees each year.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"/en/blog/navi-partnership/\">Gamers</a> from across Europe (and even further afield) converge to play the hottest games and discuss them over currywurst.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Gamescom is one of the most popular conventions around\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_27/gamescom.jpg\" title=\"Gamescom\" /></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//www.gamescom.global/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.gamescom.global/</a></p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Location:</u></strong> Cologne, Germany</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Dates:</u></strong> Every year in August</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Ticket price:</u></strong> 12.50 - 16 Euros per day</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Why it's so popular:</u></strong> Gamescom is considered more affordable, and its greater focus on the PC market and the fact that it is explicitly designed with consumers in mind makes it extremely popular.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"pax-west\">PAX West</h2>\n\n<p><a href=\"/en/blog/pax/\">The Penny Arcade Expo (PAX)</a> events are a series of gaming conventions that take place all over the world. PAX West is in the United States of America and is arguably the most well-known of all of the PAX shows.</p>\n\n<p>First held all the way back in 2004, the creators (who are also the team behind the Penny Arcade webcomic) have spent more than a decade making this a fun event for gamers and geeks to visit.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//west.paxsite.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">west.paxsite.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Seattle, Washington (USA)</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Dates:</u></strong> End of August to Early September every year</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Ticket price:</u></strong> $50 for a one-day pass</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Why it's so popular:</u></strong> PAX West features more big gaming reveals (including updates on games announced at Gamescom and E3), talks by developers and tournaments. Explosive Alan's editorial director <a href=\"https://twitter.com/MrPointyHead\">Dan \"</a><a href=\"https://twitter.com/MrPointyHead\">MrPointyHead</a><a href=\"https://twitter.com/MrPointyHead\">\" Maher</a> says that if you're \"feeling particularly extravagant,\" you can't go wrong with PAX West.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"egx\">EGX</h2>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"EGX is another one of the top conventions on our list\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_27/egx.jpg\" title=\"EGX\" /></p>\n\n<p>Previously known as the Eurogamer Expo, <a href=\"/en/blog/egx-eurogame-expo/\">EGX is created by Eurogamer</a> - the European video game publication which has been covering games conventions for over a decade. As such, you could say that they have a lot of experience in figuring out what works (and what doesn't) when it comes to throwing a great gaming bash.</p>\n\n<p>There's also EGX Rezzed, which is a more indie-focused games convention which takes place each year in London, England.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//www.egx.net/egx\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.egx.net/egx</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Birmingham, England</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> September every year</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> £15 - £70</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> Dan Maher explains that \"if you're mainly interested in seeing the latest and greatest, [EGX also offers] informative developer sessions, esports tournaments, a career fair, retro gaming, cosplay, and tabletop gaming.\" This makes it a solid mix of major reveals and more community-focused fun.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"esl-one\">ESL One</h2>\n\n<p>The ESL One events are a series of esports competitions that take place all around the world. ESL One New York is an event focused on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive while ESL One Cologne attendees will watch people play Dota 2.</p>\n\n<p>There are also ESL One events in Katowice, Genting, Birmingham, and Belo Horizonte.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"en.esl-one.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">en.esl-one.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Location:</u></strong> Katowice (Poland), New York (USA), Genting (Malaysia), Birmingham (UK), Belo Horizonte (Brazil), Cologne (Germany)</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Dates:</u></strong> Throughout the year</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Ticket price:</u></strong> $29 - $169</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Why it's so popular:</u></strong> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/admstevens\">Adam Stevens</a>, the owner of BC-GB Esports, describes the atmosphere at ESL One as \"electric.\" The fact that it lets you see some of the most talented CS:GO and Dota 2 players do what they do best is also a huge draw.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"dreamhack\">DreamHack</h2>\n\n<p>DreamHack is another series of esports-focused events, hosting tournaments for games such as Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and StarCraft 2.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"DreamHack is another huge and very popular conventions\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_27/DREAMHACK.jpg\" title=\"DreamHack\" /></p>\n\n<p>More than 300,000 people attend DreamHack events around the world each year, and many more choose to tune in to live streams on platforms such as YouTube and Twitch (which, admittedly, hosts its own HUGE event - <a href=\"/en/blog/twitchcon/\">TwitchCon</a>).</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//dreamhack.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">dreamhack.com/ </a></p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Location:</u></strong> USA, Sweden, Spain, Canada</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Dates:</u></strong> Throughout the year</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Ticket price:</u></strong> $30 - $535</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Why it's so popular:</u></strong> As mentioned by Adam Stevens, esports events can be a thrilling experience. It's an exhilarating feeling to watch your favorite team secure a clinching victory or watch an underdog take down a popular player. DreamHack lets fans watch that up close. </p>\n\n<h2 id=\"insomnia-gaming-festival\">Insomnia Gaming Festival</h2>\n\n<p>Insomnia Gaming Festival began life as a LAN gaming tournament which would let gamers battle to be the best, but more recently it has grown into a fun-filled gaming convention. A hugely popular event, it prides itself on being the UK's biggest gaming festival.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//insomniagamingfestival.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">insomniagamingfestival.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Birmingham, England</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> Throughout the year</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Ticket price:</u></strong> Pricing varies</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Why it's so popular:</u></strong> Dan Maher explains that Insomnia Gaming Festival provides a \"vast range of alternative activities to keep you entertained\" as well as \"an opportunity to forge new friendships, interests and even careers.\"</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Insomnia Gaming Festival is the most popular convention in the UK\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_27/insomnia.jpg\" title=\"Insomnia Gaming Festival\" /></p>\n\n<h2 id=\"playstation-experience\">PlayStation Experience</h2>\n\n<p>Sony often tends to make major announcements at E3, but for several years now it has also hosted its own PlayStation-specific gaming event called PlayStation Experience.</p>\n\n<p>Held annually at the end of the year, Sony has used the occasion to make surprise reveals and updates on some of its biggest franchises, including The Last of Us.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//www.playstation.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.playstation.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Las Vegas, Nevada (USA)</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> December every year</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> $65 - $75</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> PlayStation Experience offers a lot for PlayStation fans including hands-on time with the latest and greatest PlayStation games, developer interview sessions (and the chance to meet those developers), and all of the announcements that Sony makes each year. But it also lets fans of the Sony consoles meet with one another and enthuse about their favorite games, characters and more.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"best-anime-conventions\">BEST ANIME CONVENTIONS</h2>\n\n<h2 id=\"anime-expo\">Anime Expo</h2>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Anime Expo (AX) might be the most popular anime convention in N. America\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_27/ANIMEEXPO.png\" title=\"Anime Expo\" /></p>\n\n<p>Anime Expo (also known as AX) boasts itself as the largest anime convention in North America. With approximately 100,000 anime enthusiasts attending the event each year, including cosplayers and casual fans alike, we think that it has more than earned that right.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//www.anime-expo.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.anime-expo.org/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Los Angeles, California (USA)</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> $35 - $80</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> July every year</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> Some may call anime a very niche interest as it is typically created in the Japanese language and therefore hasn't easily made it to the West. But the Anime Expo in LA stares down that assumption, allowing anime fans to enjoy the medium together even as many mainstream critics don't understand it.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"otakon\">Otakon</h2>\n\n<p>Otakon is to the East Coast what Anime Expo is to the West. The three-day event has been taking place since 1994, letting anime lovers from far and wide share their appreciation for anime as well as the broader scope of Asian pop culture including video games, manga, music, and movies.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//www.otakon.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.otakon.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Washington, D.C. (USA)</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> Subject to change, approx. $75</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> August/September every year</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> Otakon offers a wide range of anime-related activities, including retrospectives of anime that aired in the 1980s/90s, there are live musical performances of theme music and soundtracks, and cosplay and dance events.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"jump-festa\">Jump Festa</h2>\n\n<p>Since 1999, the publisher of the Jump anthologies has held Jump Festa, a party allowing people to celebrate their love of all things manga and anime.</p>\n\n<p>While the event is primarily known for its anime announcements, video games and movies are also represented here.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Jump Festa is a popular Anime convention that includes also gaming\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_27/jumpfesta.jpg\" title=\"Jump Festa\" /></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//www.jumpfesta.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.jumpfesta.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Tokyo, Japan</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> Entry is free</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> Third week of December</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> As mentioned, Jump Festa is often home to many major anime announcements including new runs of popular series like Tokyo Ghoul, One Piece, Dragon Ball and My Hero Academia.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"animejapan\">AnimeJapan</h2>\n\n<p>Bigger still is AnimeJapan, which is actually the largest anime event in all of Japan despite only being created in 2014.</p>\n\n<p>It was created as a merging of the Tokyo International Anime Fair and the Anime Contents Expo, allowing the two teams to put their minds together to host a real blowout of an annual anime event.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//www.anime-japan.jp/en/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.anime-japan.jp</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Tokyo, Japan</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> $16 - $500</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> March every year</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> AnimeJapan draws some of the biggest companies in the anime industry, including domestic and international companies. They host displays, stage shows, sales, and events, making this one entertaining event for mainstream anime fans in particular.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"a-kon\">A-Kon</h2>\n\n<p>Both the east and west coasts of the USA have anime conventions, so it's only fair that the south has one too! A-Kon is the longest running anime convention in North America and it draws an attendance of over 30,000 people each year.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//a-kon.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a-kon.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Fort Worth, Texas (USA)</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> $25 - $55</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> First week of June every year</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> The south isn't often catered to when it comes to conventions like this, so A-Kon stands out. Attendees also appreciate the chance to see up and coming artists at artists alley as well as community events such as trivia nights, panels, cosplay contests, singalongs and more.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"A-Kon is probably the best anime convention in southern USA\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_27/a-kon-1.jpg\" title=\"A-Kon\" /></p>\n\n<h2 id=\"japan-expo\">Japan Expo</h2>\n\n<p>Aren't able to get to Japan or the USA? Then Japan Expo, which takes place in Europe and is the largest of its kind outside of Japan, may suit you well. Taking place across four days, this massive event is attended by almost a quarter of a million people each year.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//www.japan-expo-paris.com/en/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.japan-expo-paris.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Paris, France</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> 14 Euros - 300 Euros</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> July every year</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> European anime fans who can't afford to get to the US or Japan flock to Japan Expo every year. It features idols of Japanese culture including artists and game developers, masterclasses that teach you how to improve your anime creation skills as well as fan-focused events like panels.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"best-comic-book-conventions\">Best Comic Book Conventions</h2>\n\n<h2 id=\"san-diego-comic-con\">San Diego Comic-Con</h2>\n\n<p>Founded in 1970, San Diego Comic-Con now draws over 150,00 attendees each year and is a huge staple on the gaming, comic book, movie and television promo circuit. There is often a massive waiting list for tickets to get into SDCC due to its popularity.</p>\n\n<p><b><u>Official site:</u></b> <a href=\"//www.comic-con.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.comic-con.org/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> San Diego, California</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> $42 - $276</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> July every year</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"San Diego Comic-Con could be one of the biggest comic conventions in the world\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_27/sdcc.jpg\" title=\"San Diego Comic-Con\" /></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> Every year, SDCC features major reveals every year and panels with the biggest stars in the business. For example, SDCC 2018 included panels with the casts of Doctor Who, The Walking Dead, Star Trek: Discovery and many, many more.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"comiket\">Comiket</h2>\n\n<p>Comiket (or Comic Market) is a \"dōjinshi\" (self-published works) fair that takes place twice a year in Japan. Despite this sales event starting as a grassroots effort some years ago, it has absolutely ballooned and over 500,000 people attend it each year.</p>\n\n<p><b><u>Official site:</u></b> <a href=\"//www.comiket.co.jp/index_e.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.comiket.co.jp/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Tokyo, Japan</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> $7</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> August and December</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> Going to Comiket means the chance to discover little-known works by artists who don't yet have a following. Who wouldn't want to jump on the bandwagon before the bandwagon for that artist is even up and running? </p>\n\n<h2 id=\"mcm-comic-con\">MCM Comic Con</h2>\n\n<p>MCM Comic Con is England's answer to SDCC. It takes place twice a year and focuses on a strong mix of both UK popular culture as well as the popular culture from Japan that has found fans in Europe.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//www.mcmcomiccon.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.mcmcomiccon.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> London, UK</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> May and October</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> £17 - £150</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> Dan Maher has a lot of praise for this event because it hits all of the right, geeky spots. Maher is a fan of hybrid conventions and says that \"it’s a safe bet to say that if you love video games, you’ll likely enjoy comics, anime, sci-fi, films, cosplay, music or all of the above.\"</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"MCM Comic Con is a UK-based popular convention\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_27/mcm.jpg\" title=\"MCM Comic Con\" /></p>\n\n<h2 id=\"new-york-comic-con\">New York Comic Con</h2>\n\n<p>First held all the way back in 2006, New York Comic Con is the largest comics convention on the east coast of the USA. It gets almost 200,000 attendees each year, which is a heck of a lot of people gathering to talk about all things sci-fi and geekery.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//www.newyorkcomiccon.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.newyorkcomiccon.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> New York, USA</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> October every year</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> $12.50 - $50</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> NYCC draws in some of the biggest names in the business. 2018's guests include Lois Lane herself Teri Hatcher, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Danai Gurira of Black Panther and The Walking Dead, Jason Momoa of Aquaman and Game of Thrones, and many more.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"fan-expo-canada\">Fan Expo Canada</h2>\n\n<p>Not one to be left out, the great white north has its own comic convention too in the form of Fan Expo Canada. Attended by more than 130,000 people each year, Canada clearly has a thing for comics.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//www.fanexpocanada.com/en/home.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.fanexpocanada.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Toronto, Canada</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> August to September</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> $25 - $569</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> Fan Expo is a major stop when it comes to Canadian promo tours meaning that major names like Jason Momoa, Michael J. Fox of Back to the Future fame, and even the cast of Xena: Warrior Princess has shown up.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"oz-comic-con\">Oz Comic-Con</h2>\n\n<p>Not a Wizard of Oz fan convention, Oz Comic-Con is actually Australia's \"premier\" comic convention. Australian comic book lovers can attend to discuss cosplay, comics, video, and anime.</p>\n\n<p>It also takes place in several places across the country meaning that you won't necessarily have to travel too far to go.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Oz Comic-Con takes place in Australia\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_27/ozcomiccom.jpg\" title=\"Oz Comic-Con\" /></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Official site:</strong></u> <a href=\"//ozcomiccon.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ozcomiccon.com/</a></p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Location:</strong></u> Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney Australia</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dates:</strong></u> Throughout the year (depending on location)</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Ticket price:</strong></u> $20 - $65</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Why it's so popular:</strong></u> Again, this is a major press stop for big international comic productions (including blockbuster comic book movies and TV shows) and so big names are likely to attend, drawing a massive crowd.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"up-and-coming conventions\">Up-and-coming Conventions</h2>\n\n<p>Although the geek conventions mentioned are some of the most popular and well-known, they aren't the only ones drawing crowds. GeekGirlCon is, as the name would imply, is a convention that targets women in science, tech and gaming. (Re)Generation Who is a smaller but no less entertaining convention solely focused on Doctor Who. It shows that no matter how much of a niche your geeky interests, there is likely a convention out there for you.</p>\n","date":"10/16/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"alt":"","href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_49/header.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13257"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/viking-history/"},"strings":{"title":"What Happened to The Vikings? A Brief History","category":"Insights","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"660000","description":"<p>Feared, ruthless, noble, vicious, skilled, respected - these and many other words could be used to describe the Vikings. For a period of time, these proud warrior people dominated all others in their part of the world.</p>\n\n<p>But, who were the Vikings? Where were they from and ultimately, what happened to them?</p>\n\n<p>These questions and many more, are going to be the focus of this article, as we delve into the rich history of the Viking society and their people. </p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">{{banner:default}}</p>\n\n<h2>Where Did the Vikings Come From?</h2>\n\n<p>The Anglo-Saxons labeled the Vikings as Danes, but as was later learned, this was not entirely correct. The Vikings were indeed a diverse people, hailing from all over the Scandinavian region, including Norway, Sweden <em>and </em>Denmark.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Where Did the Vikings Come From?\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/old/blog/en/2016/11/25.jpg\" style=\"width: 934px; height: 296px;\" /></p>\n\n<p>The Scandinavian region would later on indeed have trouble containing these people within its borders, as they flooded outward, exploring, trading with and pillaging large swathes of Europe throughout the time period that earn the title of the Viking Age.</p>\n\n<p>The Age of Vikings, as history now knows it, was between 700AD to 1100AD and was a period in time in which the Vikings struck fear into the heart of all those they opposed, raiding and pillaging the seaside, as they wrecked havoc across a once peaceful land.</p>\n\n<h2>Who Were the Vikings?</h2>\n\n<p>The Vikings were first and foremost warriors from the Scandinavian region. These nordic warriors are often depicted as villains or barbarians, and for a good reason given their common practice of raiding and pillaging defenseless coastal towns and monasteries all across Europe. This description, however, does not fully encompass the whole sum of Vikings.</p>\n\n<p>It is easy to answer the question of who were the Vikings with a simple Hollywood depiction or definition of them, but this would be ignorant to the facts, as numerous examples exist that showcase a people who just wanted to live a normal everyday life.</p>\n\n<p>The Vikings were a diverse people, who yes, included warriors, but also consisted of skilled tradesman, farmers, merchants, seafarers, and peaceful settlers.</p>\n\n<h3>What does 'Viking' Even Mean?</h3>\n\n<p><strong>The term Viking itself means pirate or raider.</strong> As one can assume, many Scandinavian people would not have called themselves a Viking during this time period. Yet, to those being raided, they were all known as Vikings, as this was the only aspect of their culture that they were sadly exposed to before they were run through and put to death.</p>\n\n<p>Vikings could not solely rely on raiding distant places to provide for their people. They needed to settle locations, farm the land, and tend to livestock.</p>\n\n<p>Others would travel great distances to trade their goods, including <a href=\"https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/articles/zw3qmp3\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">overland through Russia</a>, reaching as far as Constantinople, in what is now known as modern-day Turkey. Still, others would make the journey to Baghdad in Iraq, proving that the reach of the Vikings was far indeed.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"What happened to the Vikings?\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/old/blog/en/2016/11/22.jpg\" style=\"width: 934px; height: 296px;\" /></p>\n\n<h2>What Language Did the Vikings Speak?</h2>\n\n<p>As the Vikings traveled the world, they were forced to communicate with vastly different populations and thus in different languages. However, in their homeland, Vikings spoke the language known today as <strong>Old Norse</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken throughout much of the Scandinavian region, including the Faroe Islands, Iceland, and Greenland. Parts of Russia, France, the British Isles and Ireland all had regions which communicated in Old Norse as well, unsurprisingly given the heavy Viking influence that those regions would have been under during the time period.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/B_VxajWYG-4\" width=\"560\"></iframe></p>\n\n<p>Many ancient runes and carvings have been discovered by historians that reveal the use of Old Norse. The runic script is known as <a href=\"https://www.vikingrune.com/2008/11/younger-futhark-runes/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Younger Futhark</a> or Scandinavian runes. It is a runic alphabet that consisted of 16 characters and of which was used predominantly during the Viking Age, fading out of use as their power and influence began to wane.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/plarium-play/download-guest/?plid=147426&pxl=seo&appId=27\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>What Did the Vikings Trade?</h2>\n\n<p>As previously noted, the Vikings were capable of reaching far distances, over both land and sea, as they were some of the, if not the most skilled seafaring folk of the time. Which is precisely one of the reasons why they dominated so many others they encountered.</p>\n\n<p>But, what did they trade throughout their travels? What did they bring with them?</p>\n\n<p>Commonly, Viking traders sought luxury goods, <a href=\"http://www.teachinghistory100.org/objects/viking_scales_and_weights\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">such as silver</a>, silk, spices, wine, jewelry, glass, and pottery. All of which were in demand where the Vikings hailed from.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"What did the Viking trade?\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/new/24.jpg\" /></p>\n\n<p>To purchase these goods, Viking traders would bring domestic products to trade, such as honey, tin, wheat, wool, wood, iron, fur, leather, fish and walrus ivory.</p>\n\n<p>Unfortunately, touching on a much darker side of Viking history, they were also prolific buyers and sellers of human slaves.</p>\n\n<h2>The Vikings Attack Across Europe</h2>\n\n<p>Although it is true that not all Vikings were ruthless raiders and pillagers, it still is a reality that they earned this reputation for a reason. They were killers that rejoiced in their successes, fondly recounting their victories to their loved ones after returning home after a solid campaign of reaving.</p>\n\n<p>The first officially recorded raid on the Anglo-Saxon region was around 787 and was the beginning of a struggle that would last for hundreds of years to come.</p>\n\n<p>At first, the Vikings were foolishly welcomed when they were first spotted off the coasts of Britain. The local population headed to the shore unarmed to greet them. This was a mistake that they would soon come to regret, as the Viking horde rampaged across the coastline, slaughtering the innocent and defenseless in kind.</p>\n\n<h3>The Vikings Arrive to the British Isles</h3>\n\n<p>Their fierceness and veracity confused and confounded the local population of Britain, as the Vikings were more than willing to target once sacred locations, such as Christian monasteries, which were flush with gold, silver, livestock and other various forms of wealth.</p>\n\n<p>To many, this was unheard of, but to the Vikings hoping for an easy victory, it was a no-brainer. There was no moral dilemma in sacking these holy monasteries, as they were a pagan people and did not adhere to the religion that dominated these foreign lands.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Vikings attacked foreign civilizations\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/old/blog/en/2016/11/17.jpg\" style=\"width: 934px; height: 296px;\" /></p>\n\n<p>As the years unfolded, hostilities between both the Viking people and the Anglo-Saxons would continue to ratchet up, increasing in both scale and brutality.</p>\n\n<h2>The Great Viking Invasion</h2>\n\n<p>Facing mounting resistance from the lands of Ireland and Britain, and having plucked all the “easy” targets, the Viking people decided that a more coordinated effort would be needed if they wished to expand their dominance and thus crack open the true riches that the Anglo-Saxons possessed.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"The great Viking invasion\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/new/vikings_voyages.jpg\" /></p>\n\n<p>In 865 a massive army was formed, known as the Great Danish Army or, depending on whom you asked, the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Heathen_Army\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Great Heathen Army</a>.</p>\n\n<p>This was a coalition of Norse warriors from all over the Scandinavian region, with the bulk of the forces originating from Denmark.</p>\n\n<p>Previously, Viking raids used simple hit-and-run tactics, quickly striking and pillaging before any real, strong defense could be mounted. These tactics satisfied the Viking people, but like so many that came before them, they would increasingly want more.</p>\n\n<p>The legends state that to solve this problem, the Viking people would need a much larger, more capable force. One that would be able to penetrate deeper into the Anglo-Saxon lands, and allow their people to settle the region as their own.</p>\n\n<h2>The Viking Army</h2>\n\n<p>This army was led by three of the legendary warrior Ragnar Lodbrok’s five sons: Hvitserk, Ivar the Boneless, and Ubba Ironside. The size of the force is unknown to historians, but it is estimated to be one of the most massive armies of the time.</p>\n\n<p>This campaign against the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms lasted a gruesome 14 years, most of which were filled with terror and suffering.</p>\n\n<p>The King of East Anglia, Edmund the Martyr, offered the invading forces many horses as a gift, hoping to appease them. Unsurprisingly, the Viking forces did not accept this gift and proceeded to devastate the lands of East Anglia, killing Edmund in the process.</p>\n\n<h2>What Happened to the Vikings?</h2>\n\n<p>The Vikings continued their campaign of destruction against the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms throughout the 14-year war.</p>\n\n<p>Over several years of back and forth warfare, the Great Heathen Army dominated most of Northern England, taking control of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms known as Northumbria, East Anglia and a large portion of Mercia.</p>\n\n<p>However, the Vikings invasion began to grind to a halt as division began to form within their ranks and their armies began to fracture into two separate forces.</p>\n\n<h2>Who Defeated the Vikings?</h2>\n\n<p>This would be the beginning of the end of their campaign, as the Vikings suffered a <a href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/Battle-of-Edington\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">significant defeat at the hands of Wessex</a>, the only region to hold out against the Vikings. Led by King Alfred, the armies of Wessex defeated half of the Viking forces in the Battle of Edington in 878, forever crushing their hopes of dominating all of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms.</p>\n\n<p>This setback to the Viking forces gave the lands of Wessex enough time to begin to create a strong standing army and fortifications that would continue to stifle the Viking incursion.</p>\n\n<p>However, the people of Britain still found themselves under much of Viking rule and the lands were essentially carved in half, with the Vikings dominating the Northern parts of the region, while the people of Wessex, led by King Alfred controlling the South.</p>\n\n<p>This would remain this way for much of the remainder of the Viking Age.</p>\n\n<h2>The End of the Viking Age</h2>\n\n<p>When the Age of Vikings began, most of Europe was loosely organized, consisting of militia forces that found it hard to quickly mount a formidable defense against the Viking \"shock and awe\" style tactics.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Who defeated the Vikings?\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/old/blog/en/2016/11/18.jpg\" style=\"width: 934px; height: 296px;\" /></p>\n\n<p>As the years progressed and as the constant threat of raiding went on, the people of Europe began to band together to organize standing armies, and build proper fortifications.</p>\n\n<p>These adequately defended fortifications, and well-trained armies would make Vikings raid tactics unviable and thus unprofitable. To the Vikings, this would be the beginning of the end for their reign of dominance. Their success would ultimately be their own undoing.</p>\n\n<p>The once soft targets were soft no more, as even Church monasteries began to build easily defended tower location, into which they could quickly move their valuables and surround with a solid defense against Viking raids.</p>\n\n<p>Other towns simply moved further inland, making it more difficult for Viking raiding parties to use their notorious hit-and-run tactics against them.</p>\n\n<p>In the end, as is often the case throughout history, money cast the deciding vote, and if a venture is no longer profitable than business will move elsewhere. That is precisely what the Viking people did.</p>\n\n<h2>Where are the Vikings Today?</h2>\n\n<p>The Viking people were never defeated, and they were not conquered. However, they were slowed down and repelled, which Forced them to change their tactics and eventually their whole way of life. The times changed and so too did the Vikings.</p>\n\n<p>Being explorers by nature, they engaged with and interacted with countless cultures. These cultures slowly began to seep into and affect their way of life as they adopted many of the practices and religions of foreign lands.</p>\n\n<p>Christianity, which was spreading across most of the known world at the time, was embraced by the once pagan society and flourished within Viking culture towards the end of the Viking Age.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Where are the Vikings Today?\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/old/blog/en/2016/11/20.jpg\" style=\"width: 934px; height: 296px;\" /></p>\n\n<p>Most historians attribute the year 1066 as the year in which this bloody age ended. The final straw was the Battle of Stamford Bridge, in which the Norwegian king Harald Hardrada was <a href=\"https://www.historyhit.com/facts-about-the-battle-of-stamford-bridge/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">repelled, defeated and killed in combat</a> as he sought to reclaim a large part of England.</p>\n\n<p>This would be the last major Viking incursion into the lands of Europe, and from this point on integration into the broader European community accelerated, as the Vikings slowly but surely shed the titles of raiders and pirates, and became just another part of European society.</p>\n\n<p>They would no longer be referred to as Vikings, but rather as Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, Icelanders, Greenlanders, and Faroese.</p>\n\n<p>The Age of Vikings had come to an end, but the history and the legends they left behind would live on throughout history, art, and culture until the end of time.</p>\n","date":"10/3/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"alt":"","href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/old/blog/en/2016/11/25.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13255"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/what-is-arg/"},"strings":{"title":"Alternate Reality Games ","category":"Insights","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"600000","description":"<p>The game of marketing is an increasingly difficult one to win.</p>\n\n<p>With marketing of the past, you only needed a catchy jingle (\"Just One Cornetto\"), a nonsense slogan (McDonald's \"I'm Lovin' It!\"), or an advert that crams all of the world's biggest musicians and sports superstars into one incredible crossover (Pepsi's Superbowl ads) to make an impact.</p>\n\n<p>However, in 2018, successful marketing is defined as a marketing campaign that has gone viral, that has got its hooks into the population and has got everyone on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram talking about it.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"What is an ARG?\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_25/arg-axe.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"Viral marketing isn't enough these days\" /></p>\n\n<p>The problem is, figuring out how to make a marketing campaign that's going to \"stick\" and make an impact with people is no easy feat. Some of the <a href=\"https://edit.co.uk/blog/the-top-10-viral-marketing-campaigns-of-all-time\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">most well-known viral marketing campaigns</a> of the last decade include Old Spice's \"look at your boyfriend, now look at me\" advert and a dancing miniature pony, as choreographed by mobile phone network Three. These are hardly the easiest formulas to replicate.</p>\n\n<p>In place of capturing lightning in a bottle, many marketers think that they have found a solid strategy in the form of ARGs. Being a more interactive marketing experience, ARG combines the ability to get people talking with the sort of positive silliness that makes people feel good about a brand. You're going to be seeing more ARGs pop up very soon, so let's explore the genre even more.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">{{banner:default}}</p>\n\n<h2>Alternate Reality Games Explained</h2>\n\n<p>The acronym ARG stands for <strong>Alternate Reality Game</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>An alternate reality game is a marketing campaign or a form of gaming that uses real-world elements as part of a narrative or a larger story. Essentially, An ARG is like one big treasure hunt.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"An ARG game is like one big treasure hunt.\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_25/arg-2.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"An ARG game is like one big treasure hunt.\" /></p>\n\n<p>For example, an ARG may ask players to solve clues that they find in real-life, before using the solutions to unlock information that is available in a digital format. This may include finding a symbol written on a monument in \"invisible ink\" that is only visible through the use of an app on your smartphone or tablet. Alternatively, it may be a letter given to you by someone in real-life (a representative for the game), that, when translated, shows you the URL of a website which hosts additional clues.</p>\n\n<p>ARGs may be easy to solve or quite complicated to work through, depending on the target market and the intentions of the ARG's creator. If you have planned your ARG out for a lengthy amount of time, it doesn't make sense if someone with a fifth-grade education can quickly solve the clues. On the other hand, if your target audience is prone to frustration or has been shown to have very little patience, clues that require a significant amount of work aren't the way to go. You may think it's ingenious to create a clue in Njerep, but unless your players are part of the <a href=\"https://www.pacsafe.com/blog/6-of-the-rarest-languages-still-spoken-today.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">four people in the world who speak it</a>, they are going to be stumped and incredibly annoyed.</p>\n\n<h2>4 Epic Examples of ARG Games That Went Viral</h2>\n\n<p>Let's take a look at some clever ARG campaigns that have done astonishingly well. The following ARGs not only got everyone talking, but they actually led to success:</p>\n\n<h3><strong>Fortnite Season 5 ARG</strong></h3>\n\n<p>A recent - and incredibly exciting - alternate reality game campaign was held for Epic Games' juggernaut Fortnite. The multiplayer shooter game is known for its many iconic locations, including areas like Tilted Towers, Loot Lake, and Snobby Shores, as well as its stylized, multi-colored llamas that players can smash for loot.</p>\n\n<p>Likewise, innocuous pieces of scenery such as the \"Durr Burger\" mascot from the fictional Fortnite food chain of the same name are also iconic to players. So, when unusual things started happening, Fortnite players were quick to take notice.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/Al0vL_H-sPY\" width=\"560\"></iframe></p>\n\n<p>The Fortnite ARG kicked off ahead of the game's fifth season, with the theme of \"worlds collide.\" As such, players saw the game's <a href=\"https://www.polygon.com/fortnite/2018/7/9/17549234/fortnite-arg-llamas-europe\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">llamas start appearing in real life</a> all over the world (including the streets of Barcelona and in phone boxes in London). A Durr Burger mascot even showed up on a beach in California.</p>\n\n<p>The ARG was a massive success, appealing to the game's naturally inquisitive audience and a gaming media that fuelled interest and got everyone hooked, waiting to see what would come next.</p>\n\n<h3><strong>Overwatch Sombra Reveal ARG</strong></h3>\n\n<p>The players of Overwatch, Blizzard's multiplayer shooter, have proved themselves to be an incredibly curious bunch. Gamers are already known for the way in which they pore over job listings for hints of new titles, read into LinkedIn profiles for any whiff of a hotly anticipated sequel, and data mine every new update to find unreleased content. The Overwatch community kicks that up a notch.</p>\n\n<p>The ARG for Overwatch character Sombra built on all of that, in a game that took almost six entire months to complete.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Overwatch Sombra ARG\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/new/SombraARG.jpg\" title=\"Overwatch Sombra ARG\" /></p>\n\n<p>The Sombra ARG began in July 2016, when players spotted some hexadecimal values in the reveal video of Ana, a new sniper character who recently joined the game. The ARG ended in November 2016 when Blizzard officially announced Sombra during its annual Blizzcon event.</p>\n\n<p>The ARG included translations (mostly of Spanish, Sombra's native language), barcodes, QR codes, ciphers, encrypted messages, directions, datamoshing, email analysis, phone numbers and more. Every sort of clue Blizzard could come up with - players were able to solve. It was a community-wide effort that got people outside of the hardcore Overwatch community talking too.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/plarium-play/download-guest/?plid=147426&pxl=seo&appId=27\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h3><strong>No Man's Sky Waking Titan ARG</strong></h3>\n\n<p>No Man's Sky, the space exploration game from developer Hello Games, had already proven itself to be a massive technical feat. The game uses procedural generation to create all of its flora, fauna, planets, stars, animals, and just about everything that players see. It also enjoyed consistent updates since launch, in an effort to make good on the expectations fans had held since the game was first announced.</p>\n\n<p>To try and make the next update process feel more \"fun,\" Hello Games launched a set of Waking Titan teasers in the run-up to the game's huge Atlas Rises update in mid-2017. The update introduced new story content, a new race, improvements to key gameplay features, and a small but meaningful introduction of multiplayer co-op.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/J4yjOtLD1c8\" width=\"560\"></iframe></p>\n\n<p>The ARG included <a href=\"https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-06-07-no-mans-sky-community-deciphers-cryptic-hello-games-cassette-message\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">cassette tapes sent to the No Man's Sky community</a>, ASCII, spectrographs and more. Hello Games even brought its ARG back (with lots more new clues and teasers) to promote its hotly anticipated No Man's Sky NEXT update which launched in mid-July.</p>\n\n<h3><strong>Frog Fractions 2 ARG</strong></h3>\n\n<p>The ARG that revealed Frog Fractions 2 had been called one of the most trolling ARGs in the games industry ever, partly because of how ludicrous the entire thing seemed.</p>\n\n<p>The famous community ARG sleuth group, the Game Detectives, were the first to discover this campaign. They soon began to put the pieces together of something they called the \"<a href=\"https://kotaku.com/indie-games-most-cryptic-mystery-apparently-just-a-fro-1789010586\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Eye Sigil conspiracy</a>.\"</p>\n\n<p>The Detectives spotted eye sigil logos in more than 19 indie games on Steam. They were able to piece together a map from the sigils found in games like Quadrilateral Cowboy and Duskers. This map was then linked to a letter soup in Firewatch, which eventually led to some teasing videos and, as we've already given away, a teaser for Frog Fractions 2 - a game available through another title called Glittermitten Grove.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Frog Fractions 2 ARG\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_24/FrongFractions2.png\" style=\"width: 843px; height: 572px;\" title=\"Frog Fractions 2 ARG\" /></p>\n\n<p>The entire thing took two years to unravel, picking up steam during that time, though many were entirely surprised that Frog Fractions 2 developer Twinbeard Studios had managed to get so many fellow indie devs on board with the ARG.</p>\n\n<h2>What Makes a Successful ARG Game? </h2>\n\n<p>While it's difficult to figure out exactly what makes a successful viral marketing campaign (a la Old Spice), there are some clear beats of what makes a good alternate reality game.</p>\n\n<p>The first big tip is to make sure that the payoff is worth it. The Frog Fractions 2 ARG, for example, was captivating, up until the moment that fans realized that it was for Frog Fractions 2. That's not to say that people weren't excited for the game (they were) but due to the size and scope of the ARG and how it involved so many big names in the industry, many expected it to be for something far more significant.</p>\n\n<p>The tone of the eye sigil and the games that it was present in also seemed heavily at odds with the Frog Fractions franchise and its far more humorous tone.</p>\n\n<p>Another critical factor is that they mustn't last too long - or, at least, not longer than the community can handle. Blizzard Entertainment admitted that it's \"not very good\" at creating alternate reality games after Overwatch fans complained that its ARG, while engaging, was too cyclical and was stretched out for too long.</p>\n\n<p>The fact that leaks of character art also confirmed that Sombra was in development a while before she was officially unveiled meant that fans felt that their efforts were somewhat wasted. Keeping a lid on things is a must for any ARG designer.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Keeping a lid on things is a must for any ARG designer\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_25/arg-1.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Why Are ARGs Becoming More Popular? </h2>\n\n<p>The success of alternate reality games is very much a reflection of the current games industry as well as the broader marketing world. In gaming right now, we are seeing the rise of games which are focused on community, on collaboration, and on the sense of belonging to something or a cause greater than one's self.</p>\n\n<p>Traditional team building exercises in the workplace may involve building rafts out of straws and bits of cardboard, but in 2018, the real bonding exercise is poring over spreadsheets with your buddies trying to figure out where the ARG clues will take you next.</p>\n\n<p>Meanwhile, on the marketing front, ARGs are on the rise because consumers and gamers have grown bored with traditional marketing campaigns. According to an <a href=\"https://www.marketingweek.com/2017/06/29/arrogance-brand-purpose-distrust-ads/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">advertising study by Trinity Mirror</a>, 69% of the 1,000 consumers interviewed (690 people) say that they distrust advertising. The study highlighted the \"arrogance\" of some brands' marketing as well as \"huge exaggeration\" and overpromising.</p>\n\n<p>In the games industry, with its bullshots (screenshots that have been edited to reflect better visuals than the game actually has) and trailers that are entirely CGI or include gameplay run on powerful PCs that the average gamer couldn't possibly afford, players may be especially distrusting of traditional video game marketing. As the entire industry shifts to a more community-focused, open-armed, feedback-embracing way of doing things, it makes sense that the idea that video games are marketed should do the same.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"ARGs usually consist of an adventurous element\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_25/arg-3.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"What is an ARG?\" /></p>\n\n<p>ARGs are the perfect balance between excitement and community involvement, which explains why they are so appealing to marketers and PR people, as well as the players that participate in their campaigns.</p>\n\n<p>It's because of all this that we should expect to see more alternate reality games crop up in future. They may not all be continent-spanning juggernauts or industry-wide conspiracies that take years to decipher, but as marketers and players figure out what works and what doesn't, we will get to follow and take part in more ARGs that keep us on the edge of our seats.</p>\n\n<p>Bring on the cryptic clues and the marvelous mysteries because the age of the ARG is upon us.</p>\n","date":"8/29/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_25/arg-3.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13241"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/iconic-viking-weapons/"},"strings":{"title":"Top 9 Viking Weapons and Viking Armor Used on the Battlefield","category":"Insights","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"420000","description":"<p>Throughout most of history, there has often been a boogeyman - an opponent so strong, so furious, they have kept a nation awake at night and rulers wringing their hands in frustration, as they scramble to tackle this foe.</p>\n\n<p>Some of those opponents were the notorious Vikings.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">{{banner:default}}</p>\n\n<p>The Vikings, hailing from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, were known as fierce and formidable foes who went largely unopposed throughout their reign in history <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_Age\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">from AD 700 to 1100</a>.</p>\n\n<p>During this 400 year period, known by many as the Viking Age, the Viking people were both feared and respected for their skill with weaponry and armor, on which we will focus on throughout the course of this article.</p>\n\n<h2>Known Viking Weapons</h2>\n\n<p>In AD 787, three Viking boats or longships landed in Southern England, where they fought the local population, starting a conflict with England that would last for hundreds of years.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"The axe is one of the most iconic Viking weapons\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_22/VKN_Blog-images---Vikings-weapons_3.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"The Viking axe\" /></p>\n\n<p>During the numerous battles that unfolded over many years, the Vikings used many weapons, but one, above all others, never strayed far from their side.</p>\n\n<h3>Viking Axe</h3>\n\n<p>All Vikings rode the waves and leaped into battle with a weapon in hand. More often than not the Viking axe was their weapon of choice.</p>\n\n<p>With a cutting-edge ranging from 3 to 18 inches in length, depending on the wealth of the owner, and a long handle, the Viking axes gave their wielder a tremendous advantage in reach. They were typically worn at the waist, held in place with a belt.</p>\n\n<h3>Ulfberht, the Viking Sword</h3>\n\n<p>Although commonly associated with the axe, Vikings were a people born into warfare so it should come as no surprise that they would not limit themselves to merely one choice of weaponry.</p>\n\n<p>The Ulfberht, aka the Viking sword, was not as commonly seen as the Viking axe. Iron was in limited availability during this era of medieval weapons and was thus typically only possessed by the more wealthy in Viking society.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Ulfberht, the Viking Sword\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_22/VKN_Blog-images---Vikings-weapons_1.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"Ulfberht, the Viking Sword\" /></p>\n\n<p>However, the typical Viking sword was still a formidable weapon of destruction. T double-edged blade was roughly 35 inches in length, worn over the shoulder and made reachable with the right hand.</p>\n\n<h3>Bow and Arrow</h3>\n\n<p>Although Vikings were best known as skilled, close quarter combatants (and they most certainly were), they were not limited purely to this style of fighting.</p>\n\n<p>Vikings quickly discovered that the bow and arrow, which they initially used for hunting, could also be used as an effective way of vanquishing their foes.</p>\n\n<p>A skilled Viking archer could shoot an average of twelve arrows per minute before the inevitable close quarter combat would begin.</p>\n\n<p>Taking advantage of this skill, Viking warriors would often unleash a barrage of arrows from their boats before making landfall and engaging their opponents in face-to-face combat.</p>\n\n<h3>Viking Spear</h3>\n\n<p>One Viking weapon that fit both roles of both close and ranged combat was the Viking spear, which ranged between 3 to 10 feet in length and thus came in many various styles.</p>\n\n<p>Some Viking spears were designed to be thrown at great lengths, while others were much more sturdy, making them ideal for close quarter combat.</p>\n\n<h3>Seax, the Viking Knife</h3>\n\n<p>The last form of weaponry Vikings equipped in their vast utility belts of slaughter was the knife. Although they ranged in size and quality, these blades were never far from reach during the Viking age, as even slaves were <a href=\"https://blackguard-customs.myshopify.com/blogs/news/113278853-viking-knives\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">permitted to keep one</a> in their possession.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Seax, the iconic Viking Knife \" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_22/VKN_Blog-images---Vikings-weapons_5.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"Seax, the Viking Knife\" /></p>\n\n<p>The Seax was a much higher quality knife, owned by the wealthy within Viking society. It was much larger and more lethal than the typical fighting knife, often having a curved blade.</p>\n\n<p>Although these top 5 Viking weapons were the most typically used by the Scandinavian people during this period in medieval history, they were far from the only ones used.</p>\n\n<p>The Vikings were versatile warriors, who were more than capable of picking up any form of weaponry and using it, if need be, in a pinch. The Vikings were much more than just brutish warriors as many would have them illustrated.</p>\n\n<p>They were also skilled craftsmen who were capable of producing armaments of defense and beautiful, stunning works of art, such as the Viking longboat.</p>\n\n<h3>Viking Armor</h3>\n\n<p>The Vikings, feared throughout the lands for the havoc they wracked across the coastline during the Viking age, were respected warriors known for their cunning and ruthless tactics.</p>\n\n<p>Yet, they were no fools; they knew that to survive in their way of life, they must protect themselves with armor such as shields, helmets and body armor.</p>\n\n<p>Viking armor was typically crafted out of thickly padded leather, which gave the wearer some protection from edged weapons. The average Viking often wore it into battle.</p>\n\n<p>Chainmail, another favorite form of armor at the time, was reserved for the more wealthy, as iron was in high demand and incredibly expensive.</p>\n\n<h3>Viking Helmet</h3>\n\n<p>Not all Vikings wore a helmet, however, if they were able to, they did, as the added protection saved many lives in close quarter combat.</p>\n\n<p>The Viking helmet was relatively simple in construction, often being a simple bowl shape in design with a metal nose guard protruding from the center.</p>\n\n<p>Despite popular belief, there is little evidence to suggest that Viking helmets <a href=\"http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/viking_helmets.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">were adorned with horns</a>, as they often depicted having. Horns gave little to no additional protection and were just another thing for an enemy to grab hold to during combat. Viking warriors were nothing if not practical.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Typical Viking shield\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_22/VKN_Blog-images---Vikings-weapons_2.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"Viking shield\" /></p>\n\n<h3>Viking Shield</h3>\n\n<p>The history of the Viking shield is an interesting one. Only a few examples of them have survived throughout history, which has led to a series of debates amongst historians about their construction methods.</p>\n\n<p>However, some prized artifacts have been found, answering some questions.</p>\n\n<p>During the Viking Age, warriors charged into battle wielding a shield, which was typically round in design and <a href=\"http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/viking_shields.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ranged on average 30-35 inches in diameter</a>.</p>\n\n<p>A warrior usually crafted their shield by themselves, customizing it to match their fighting style and size.  A Viking shield could neither be too big nor too small, as it would render the wielder too slow or too exposed, respectively.</p>\n\n<p>All surviving examples of Viking shields are made from solid butted planks, which consist of spruce, fir or pine.</p>\n\n<h3>Viking Ship</h3>\n\n<p>We would be doing a disservice if we did not touch on the marvel known as the Viking Longships, feared across the known world during the Viking age.</p>\n\n<p>Without the Viking boat, the Vikings rise to power would never have happened and their style of warfare which resulted in their rapid spread would have been dead in the water.</p>\n\n<p>Norsemen were likely the most capable seaman of their time, sailing their boats around the world and reaching as far as America in the West and Asia Minor in the East.</p>\n\n<p>Contemporary foreign sources of the period describe the Viking boat as follows:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>The Viking ships had flexible, clinker-built hulls that followed the waves as living beings.</li>\n\t<li>The best ships are compared to dragons, birds and sea serpents.</li>\n\t<li>The Viking ships could quickly be drawn up on a beach.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Viking ships contained many different kinds of weapons\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_22/VKN_Blog-images---Vikings-weapons_4.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"Viking longship\" /></p>\n\n<p>Although many stories have been passed down throughout the ages, very few Viking longboats were discovered to this day. When they are, they are already broken and shattered to pieces.</p>\n\n<p>Regardless, the reality is apparent: the Viking Age was dominated by the Viking longboat, as these brave warriors sailed the seas, pillaging, conquering and permanently placing themselves in the history books until the end of time as some of the most capable warriors this world has ever seen.</p>\n","date":"7/10/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_22/VKN_Blog-images---Vikings-weapons.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13226"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/best-browser/"},"strings":{"title":"What is the Best Browser for Gaming? The Top 6 Browsers","category":"Insights","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"300000","description":"<p>Are you into online games, but tired of glitches, popups, and latency issues? If you're looking for the best browser for your gaming needs, search no more.</p>\n\n<p>Read on to discover more about some of the best browsers for 2021 gaming. <strong>Focusing on safety, speed, and reliability, this guide is designed to help you find the best browser for your needs.</strong></p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">{{banner:default}}</p>\n\n<h2>Google Chrome</h2>\n\n<p>According to statistics, Chrome remains the most popular browser out there, with <a href=\"https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">over 90% of market shares</a>. </p>\n\n<p>However, just because it’s the most popular, doesn’t mean it’s the best browse for online gaming.</p>\n\n<p>One thing everyone knows is that Chrome is fast. There are many metrics for measuring the speed of a browser, but several platforms have noted that Google now auto-blocks any ads that violate Coalition for Better Ads guidelines. In practice, this means there are fewer things to load per page meaning faster page load times.</p>\n\n<p>The browser works well on mobiles too, meaning you’ve got great cross-platform compatibility. When you combine this with fewer pop-ups and fast loading times, <strong>Chrome is, arguably, the best browser for HTML5 type of games</strong>, both on <a href=\"/en/games/platform/pc-games/\">desktop</a> and <a href=\"/en/games/platform/mobile-games/\">mobile</a>.</p>\n\n<p>However, Chrome is a notorious <a href=\"/en/blog/ddr5-ram/\">RAM</a> hog, especially if you're using multiple tabs. <em>For this reason, it's recommended that you minimize the number of windows you have open when gaming.</em></p>\n\n<h2>Safari</h2>\n\n<p>When you consider Safari’s place in gaming, it's perhaps obvious to say that it's the best choice Mac users, as it’s been designed specifically for Apple devices. Don't let its nature as a default browser fool you, however, as Safari has also proved itself as an excellent choice for Facebook games no matter your OS.</p>\n\n<p>Because Safari 11 gives users the option to auto-block videos, it means you’re faced with fewer distractions and data drains. As Facebook continues to ramp up its video ads, it’s nice to have a browser that can shut them off. The only real downside is that, like most browsers, Flash is no longer supported.</p>\n\n<h2>Internet Explorer 11</h2>\n\n<p>Some people love to criticize Internet Explorer because it’s not the fastest browser on the market, mainly because many people grew up with a sluggish search experience. While it still may not be the quickest, it is still one of the best browsers around.</p>\n\n<p>IE11 uses your Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) for all graphics and text rendering, and it’s capable of processing graphics-heavy pages more efficiently. This is great for strategy MMO players, who play <a href=\"/en/games/platform/browser-games/\">games on their browser</a> with a lot of units and action on-screen simultaneously.</p>\n\n<p>Additionally, with IE being the default browser for older versions of Windows, the latest software is compatible with the touch browsing capabilities of Windows 8, making it a great fit for mobile and tablet devices.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"The best browsers change the way we connect\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/speed.jpg\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Microsoft Edge</h2>\n\n<p>Although it’s still somewhat underused by gaming fans, <a href=\"https://news.microsoft.com/en-gb/2018/04/26/these-are-the-new-features-you-have-to-try-in-xboxs-next-update/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Edge links perfectly with Xbox Live</a>. By accessing the browser via the console, you can not only pick up where they left off in a game, but also mute any unnecessary sounds, read page content aloud, and upload files to their PC.</p>\n\n<p>Edge stands out as a great browser for console gamers, especially for users already integrated into Microsoft's Xbox ecosystem. Edge also uses <a href=\"https://www.tomsguide.com/news/chrome-firefox-edge-ram-comparison\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">less RAM than Chrome or Firefox</a>, which is a big plus for players on older systems.</p>\n\n<p>The big downside? Edge no longer supports Macromedia's Flash. Noticing a pattern yet?</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/plarium-play/download-guest/?plid=147426&pxl=seo&appId=27\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>Firefox</h2>\n\n<p>Once enjoying around a 30% share of the browser marketplace, Firefox is no longer the force it once was.</p>\n\n<p>That said, Firefox is still one of the safest and most reliable web browsers, though, comparatively, not as fast.</p>\n\n<p>In 2020, however, thanks to the Firefox Quantum update, the browser now uses less RAM - though still more than most. If you were a former Firefox user who was discouraged due to slow speeds, it might be worth re-investigating.</p>\n\n<p>Firefox also works well with virtual and augmented reality, and <a href=\"https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/04/03/mozilla-brings-firefox-augmented-virtual-reality/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">can now process VR and AR content more efficiently</a> after their 2018 update.</p>\n\n<p>It’s fair to say Firefox is one of the top browsers for PC games - as long as you don't want to play Flash games, of course.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Security is an important element for the best browsers\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/security.jpg\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Opera</h2>\n\n<p>Despite being one of the lesser-user browsers, Opera easily punches above its weight. In fact, Opera can be considered one of the fastest browsers out there for those with slow systems.</p>\n\n<p>Opera has a turbo protocol that reroutes traffic, increasing processing speeds for users with low bandwidth. It also compresses data, so pages load faster, as well as auto-blocking unwanted adverts.</p>\n\n<p>Thanks to this trio of features, users can enjoy browser <a href=\"/en/games/genre/mmo-games/\">MMO games</a> even if they don’t have a powerful desktop or connection. Furthermore, Opera, unlike the others on this page, still supports Flash - as well as also being a high-powered gaming browser by today's standards.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"The best browser depends on user needs\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/availability.jpg\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Choose the Best Browser for Your Gaming Needs</h2>\n\n<p>The browser industry is so varied, with each company excelling in different areas, so the reality is that each product has its pros and cons.</p>\n\n<p>In terms of convenience, Google Chrome is the best for gaming, because it’s fast and easier to set up for HTML5 games.</p>\n\n<p>However, Firefox is a great alternative, and its VR and AR support makes it a serious contender, standing out as an early frontrunner in terms of supporting next-gen technology.</p>\n\n<p>If you're a fan of older, non-HTML5 titles, then Opera is essentially your only choice. The browser supports Flash and hosts an enormous classic game library.</p>\n\n<p>In conclusion, there are plenty of browsers to choose from, each suitable for a <em>variety </em>of different types of player.</p>\n<script type=\"application/ld+json\">\n{\n  \"@context\": \"https://schema.org\",\n  \"@type\": \"BlogPosting\",\n  \"mainEntityOfPage\": {\n    \"@type\": \"WebPage\",\n    \"@id\": \"https://plarium.com/en/blog/best-browser/\"\n  },\n  \"headline\": \"What is the Best Browser for Gaming? 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You’ve survived sniper fire and out of control vehicles, and took down your fair share of rival players.</p>\n\n<p>The battle is reaching its inevitable climax.</p>\n\n<p>{{banner:default}}</p>\n\n<p>The tension mounts as you discover that there are only you and one opponent left. You can practically taste that chicken dinner. You creep around the side of the one remaining house on the map, sliding stealthily through the side door, when…. <em><strong>BANG! </strong></em>Standing, or rather ‘camping’ behind it is the same guy that has killed you in the previous round.</p>\n\n<p>In fact, it feels like this person has been stalking you all day, popping up at every turn, and ruining any hope you ever had of winning a match. The red mist begins to descend.</p>\n\n<p>Further down in this post we will discuss in detail each of these 5 steps in order to rage less, and enjoy the game more:</p>\n\n<ol>\n\t<li>\n\t<p><em><strong>Take a Break</strong></em></p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p><em><strong>Lower That Difficulty</strong></em></p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p><em><strong>Watch, Learn, Rinse, Repeat</strong></em></p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p><em><strong>Take Your Anger Elsewhere</strong></em></p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p><em><strong>Ask for Help</strong></em></p>\n\t</li>\n</ol>\n\n<p>But first, some basic background information:</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"reacting-to-video-games\">Reacting to Video Games</h2>\n\n<p>When this happens, we generally fall into one of two categories, we either A) realize what is happening within our own mind and try to cool down, or B) we end up stressing out, screaming out loud, or in the case of some - hurling the controller across the room.</p>\n\n<p>If you fall into the first category, then you most probably know how to control the anger that bubbles up inside the vast majority of us when we lose at a <a href=\"/en/games/\">game</a>. But if you happen to fall into the second category, things can take a rather unpleasant turn.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"why-does-gamer-rage-happen?\">Why Does Gamer Rage Happen?</h2>\n\n<p><strong>The reasons that we experience ‘gamer rage’ are no different from those for road rage or any other sort of anger management issues.</strong> It is often rooted in the perceived feeling of not being good enough or being mistreated, and it is hard to ignore.</p>\n\n<p>Now, there is always the option to put the game down and stop playing, but for those of us who put video games at the top of our ‘pleasurable activities list,’ this is something we don’t really want to do.</p>\n\n<p>So, is it possible to completely control and lower our stress levels when playing games? Or is the suppression of these feelings the best we can hope for? Well, that very much depends on you and whether you can identify your triggers early.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"warning-signs-of-video-game-rage\">Warning Signs of Video Game Rage</h2>\n\n<p>Triggers are aspects of games that begin the cycle of anger we experience when ‘gamer rage’ rears its ugly head. These triggers are present for all of us, and some are worse than others.</p>\n\n<p>Similar to the aspects of life we enjoy, our triggers vary from person to person. For some of us, it could be when a particular player seems to target us repeatedly. For others, it could simply be struggling to pass a certain level. In general, these triggers tend to be <a href=\"https://www.futurity.org/frustration-fuels-video-gamers-aggression/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">related to performance rather than the game content</a>.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Many things can trigger your gamer rage\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/rage-2.webp\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 555px;\" title=\"Many things can trigger your gamer rage\" /></p>\n\n<h2 id=\"what-are-the-main-symptoms-of-gamer-rage?\">What Are the Main Symptoms of Gamer Rage?</h2>\n\n<p>You can usually recognize it the moment you start to feel like your thoughts are out of your control. It is often accompanied by a raised heart rate, faster breathing, sometimes shaking, and the clear sense of utter rage. The clenching of teeth, sweating, stomach aches, and even dizziness have all been reported as early warning signs of an impending rage. There are other symptoms, but it really does depend on your particular psyche as to whether you exhibit them.</p>\n\n<p>Find our what your triggers are, and you are on your way to dealing with them. If you find it hard to decipher what exactly is triggering you, it may help to ask a friend who you play with regularly. Those of us who ‘rage quit’ games regularly may notice that it is easier to see the triggers from the outside, rather than from within.</p>\n\n<p>Here are our top 5 tips to decrease gamer rage's instances and its effect on us:</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"1.-take-a-break\">1. Take a Break</h2>\n\n<p>Taking a break from a particularly frustrating level is something that should help you calm down quickly. Just like with many other problems, taking your mind off the game can immediately make you feel more relaxed. It also has a critical side-effect of sometimes improving your performance on your return.</p>\n\n<p>Ever spent hours trying to pass a level on a game, only to take a short break, come back and beat it immediately? That may not be a coincidence. A <a href=\"https://www.spring.org.uk/2012/07/the-incubation-effect-how-to-break-through-a-mental-block.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">learning technique called “incubation”</a> has been discussed in the music industry from quite some time, and the idea centers around the fact that your brain will continue to decipher the things you learn in everyday life, even when you are not consciously thinking about them. This mostly happens when we sleep, often letting us wake up with a fresh perspective on a problem.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Taking a break from playing helps deal with gamer rage\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/rage-3.webp\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 555px;\" title=\"Take a break\" /></p>\n\n<p>This phenomenon was initially observed in musicians learning new instruments, but the premise is the same for any skill you wish to learn. If you are gaming into the small hours with diminishing success, perhaps it might be time to take a little break or call it a night and start fresh tomorrow.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"2.-lower-that-difficulty\">2. Lower That Difficulty</h2>\n\n<p>The next option might be considered a cop-out, but it is worth considering.</p>\n\n<p>No matter what your friends may say, turning down the difficulty is <strong>NOT </strong>a criminal offense. If you find that a game has stopped being fun, is it really that much of a sin to lower the difficulty a notch?</p>\n\n<p>Purists may scorn, but we aren’t all born with cat-like reflexes or the patience of a saint. We shouldn’t feel guilty for wanting to complete a game either.</p>\n\n<p>The only reason anyone plays video games is to have fun, so when that stops, it may be time to finally admit you are more of a hey, not too rough kinda person.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"3.-watch,-learn,-rinse,-repeat\">3. Watch, Learn, Rinse, Repeat</h2>\n\n<p>If turning down the difficulty makes you recoil in abject horror (or if you are playing an online game, it's just impossible) then you really are only left with one option. You need to get better.</p>\n\n<p>Now, you may think that is a trite statement, and to a point it is, but with the resources available to us these days, you really haven’t exhausted all avenues unless you have watched a tutorial video or two.</p>\n\n<p>If full-on walkthroughs are not your style, then perhaps a video that discusses tips and techniques would suit you better? Or for sports and competitive online games, watching a few experts on Twitch could give you a new take on why you happen to be so embarrassingly poor at a particular game.</p>\n\n<p>‘Knowledge is power,’ as they say, so find out who are the best players in the world at your game and start taking notes.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"4.-take-your-anger-elsewhere\">4. Take Your Anger Elsewhere</h2>\n\n<p>When you simply can’t calm down, sometimes it can be a cathartic experience to take your anger out somewhere else.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Making time for other hobbies and interests lowers the chances of gamer rage \" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/rage-4.webp\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 555px;\" title=\"Take Your Anger Elsewhere\" /></p>\n\n<p>If you do find other activities alleviate stress for you, it might be a good idea to do just that. For those of you who own a boxing bag, the answer would seem obvious, but for those who don’t, taking a break from that challenging game and loading up another that you practically have a doctorate in could give you that much-needed relief from failing over and over.</p>\n\n<p>Once you have found your heart rate is back to normal, you can pour yourself a lemon iced-tea, light a candle, and try to tackle that unforgiving game again.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"5.-ask-for-help\">5. Ask for Help</h2>\n\n<p>If you are someone who is generally quick to anger, be that in gaming or other aspects of your life, it could be a good idea to <a href=\"http://www.priorygroup.com/mental-health/anger-management/symptoms-of-anger-management\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">look into real anger-management</a> and self-help techniques.</p>\n\n<p>Being \"mindful\" of your overall mental health is nothing to be sneered at. For those who suffer from anger issues, these facets can impede our happiness to a point where it affects our work life or our relationships. If things ever get to this level, learning how to avoid these situations and how to deal with them could be imperative in cementing your long-term happiness.</p>\n\n<p>Learning breathing techniques, how to clear your mind, and how to distract yourself can mean the difference between being the best version of yourself possible, and being that angry person that other people tend to avoid.</p>\n\n<p>If your anger is getting out of control, never feel embarrassed about wanting to seek help. It is a widespread problem and one that is much easier to deal with once you possess the right knowledge.</p>\n\n<h2 id=\"it’s-supposed-to-be-fun,-right?\">It’s Supposed to Be Fun, Right?</h2>\n\n<p>The most important piece of information to take away from this is that gamer rage doesn't mean that you need to stop playing games. It is worth remembering that the vast majority of us are very passionate when playing video games, and that passion can sometimes lead to angry when things don't go our way.</p>\n\n<p>Rather than thinking you need to eradicate all negative feeling while you play, be aware that you can appease these feelings, without taking the ‘edge’ out of your game.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Don't rage quit - have fun!\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/rage-5.webp\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 555px;\" title=\"Don't rage quit - have fun\" /></p>\n\n<p>Stress is what we are looking to avoid in our downtime, so go easy on yourself next time you are on a poor run. If you continuously come away from a gaming session feeling angry and drained, it will be worth your while to address the issue head-on. We all feel the urge to \"rage quit\" from time to time, but when it interferes with our enjoyment of gaming, a change is needed. Frustration is fine - anger isn’t; so for the sake of your own mental health, address the problem rather than letting it define you.</p>\n","date":"6/19/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"alt":"Gamer rage can take all the fun out of gaming","href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/rage-header.webp"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13219"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/we-play-war-games/"},"strings":{"title":"War Games: Why Do We Love Playing at War","category":"Insights","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"480000","description":"<p>War is horrible. No one wants to go to war, or live through one.</p>\n\n<p>So what is it about slipping into the muddy boots of a WWII soldier, tightly grasping the plasma cannon of a space marine, or sending your troops to a bloody adventure that we love so much?</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Why do we play war games?\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_24/why-we-love-playing-war-games-1.jpg\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 628px;\" title=\"Why do we play war games?\" /></p>\n\n<p>The fact is, there is a whole multitude of reasons. However, what we're interested in are the most basic thoughts, feelings, and emotions that make us want to play <a href=\"/en/games/genre/war-games/\">war games</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Naturally, before we delve into our psyches and have ourselves a shootout with the forces of darkness, we need first to define what is a war game.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">{{banner:default}}</p>\n\n<h2>What are War Games?</h2>\n\n<p>It is a common belief that all war games have the same three characteristics:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>The War Aspect</li>\n\t<li>The Game Aspect</li>\n\t<li>The Simulation Aspect</li>\n</ul>\n\n<h3><strong>The War Aspect</strong></h3>\n\n<p>Not all games are actually about war.</p>\n\n<p>Part of what makes a game a war game is simulating the “the activity of war” and the right vocabulary and jargon.</p>\n\n<p>Only games that depict the act of war, not necessarily realistically, can be called war games. The concept doesn’t have to be front and center, but an online war game can’t be one without war.</p>\n\n<h3><strong>The Game Aspect</strong></h3>\n\n<p>Not all war simulation can, or should be classed as war games.</p>\n\n<p>For example, military maneuvers may be a simulation of war, but they don’t have a lot to do with gaming.</p>\n\n<p>If the previous aspect enforced the idea that a war game needs to deal with war, this one emphasizes that a war game needs to be an actual game.</p>\n\n<p>Games usually compel participants to compete against each other or cooperate against a common enemy. This in turn, “forces” players to think creatively and come up with new strategies to complete their goal.</p>\n\n<p>If a simulation provides opportunities for strategic thinking, then you can call it a war game.</p>\n\n<h3><strong>The Simulation Aspect</strong></h3>\n\n<p>Good war games simulate actual war in some way.</p>\n\n<p>They do so in various levels of realism, but by definition, playing them should provide some insight into the world of warfare (without the actual death part). From strategic planning to the conditions a person may encounter, these games replicate a situation of war to a greater or lesser degree.</p>\n\n<p>Most games do not focus on educating their players about what’s it like to fight a war or lead an army, but that is a byproduct of any good war game.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"The three aspects of war games\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_24/why-we-love-playing-war-games-2.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 400px;\" title=\"The three aspects of war\" /></p>\n\n<p>The United States military, as well as other armies around the world, have historically valued the simulation army games can provide.; so much so, that the US Army has developed its own army game as a <a href=\"https://www.americasarmy.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">training and recruitment tool</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Now, this isn't to say that every war game is trying to be like the real thing.</p>\n\n<p>Every war game exhibits some level of the three aspects we've outlined here. However, that doesn’t mean they all exist in equal measure. Usually, promoting one aspect will most likely result in diminishing the other two. The more game-like your game is, the less of <a href=\"/en/blog/city-building-games/\">a simulation</a> it becomes, and vice-versa.</p>\n\n<p>For example, fantasy <a href=\"/en/games/genre/mmo-games/\">MMO</a> war games work great as games, and they do deal with the subject matter of war, but they aren’t very good war simulations. Nevertheless, they are still war games.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/plarium-play/download-guest/?plid=147426&pxl=seo&appId=27\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>The History of War Games</h2>\n\n<p>Games about war have been around for centuries.</p>\n\n<p>We’ve been playing at war ever since someone picked up a deck of cards and invented the popular card game “War” (when that happened precisely is lost to history). Ever since, we have been pretending to be at war in every medium imaginable, from cards to board games to video games.</p>\n\n<p>The first video game about war was \"Spacewar!\". It was a space combat game developed in 1962 on the PDP-1 minicomputer. Incidentally, “Spacewar!” is also one of the first video games ever made, which tells us a little bit about human nature and the games we like to play.</p>\n\n<h3>The First War Game</h3>\n\n<p>However, the first war game was developed in February 1980, and was called “Computer Bismarck.” It was a turn-based strategy game where players acted as the British forces, fighting against the battleship Bismarck and other German units. The German side was controlled by another player or by a computer AI, called “Otto Von Computer.”</p>\n\n<p>As you can see below, “Computer Bismarck” wasn’t much to look at. You can barely make out Great Britain (on the right) or Iceland (at the top) against the purple Atlantic Ocean.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Computer Bismarck was the first war game\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_23/compbismarck15.jpg\" style=\"width: 620px; height: 326px;\" title=\"Computer Bismarck was the first war game\" /></p>\n\n<p>Since then, war games have made tremendous strides and became the most popular type of video game. The rise of the first-person shooter in the 1990s gave birth to blockbuster franchises such as Call of Duty, Battlefield, and Wolfenstein. They helped establish war as the “go-to” subject of video games. It is so popular; there's even a game called Darksiders where you play the actual personification of War.</p>\n\n<p>Today, you can find war games in every genre and on every device, from narrative-heavy adventures to explosion-filled military shooters on mobile. But there’s one genre that’s almost entirely focused on the concept of warfare, and that’s strategy. Both turn-based strategy and real-time strategy games from across the years have brought wargaming to <a href=\"/en/games/platform/pc-games/\">PCs</a> around the world with franchises like Command & Conquer, Total War, and WarCraft.</p>\n\n<p>These eventually led to the rise of the MMO <a href=\"/en/games/genre/strategy-games/\">strategy games</a>, where a lot of modern war games find their audience.</p>\n\n<h2>Online War Games Make Us Better People</h2>\n\n<p><strong>Why do we love going to war in video games?</strong> For the challenge and satisfaction of outthinking and outmaneuvering our (virtual) enemies.</p>\n\n<p>Us humans love competing, usually caring about being <strong>better</strong>, and improving in certain fields.</p>\n\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/why-we-compete/403201/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">study by the Harvard School of Public Health</a>, almost half of the participants said they would rather earn $50,000 in a world where the average salary is $25,000 than make $100,000 in a world where the average is $200,000.</p>\n\n<p>Similarly, the study shows that people preferred to have a relative advantage and not an absolute one. In other words, people want to be smarter and better looking than their friends and coworkers, not necessarily the most intelligent and attractive person in the world.</p>\n\n<h3>Playing at War Games as a Sense of Accomplishment</h3>\n\n<p>We want to be better than our peers, and that is a fundamental human trait.</p>\n\n<p>So when you play war games - where the aim is to outsmart other players through a combination of strategy, logic, and foresight - you don't really care how good you are overall. You just want to be <strong>better </strong>than the person on the other side of the screen.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Competition is a major incentive in war games\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_39/war-general-illustration-3.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 464px;\" title=\"We constantly compete to be better than one another\" /></p>\n\n<p>To put it another way, we all want to be a big fish in a small pond.</p>\n\n<p>Of course, as you progress through the game, your pond will gradually increase in size. However, truly skilled players will grow at the same rate to ensure they remain the proverbial shark.</p>\n\n<h2>A Cocktail of Hormones and Emotions</h2>\n\n<p><strong>Another reason</strong> we seem to enjoy army games, aside from the fact that they test our powers of logic, strategy, and planning, is that they appeal to our most basic instincts.</p>\n\n<p>As suggested in this <a href=\"https://www.npr.org/2013/02/11/171698919/video-game-violence-why-do-we-like-it-and-whats-it-doing-to-us\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">piece from NPR</a>, two things are guaranteed to make a situation or narrative more appealing: sex and violence.</p>\n\n<p>According to Iowa State University professor Douglas Gentile, war games and shooters cause a cocktail of stress hormones, such as cortisol, noradrenaline, and testosterone, to be released into our bloodstream – the same hormones would have been released were we in actual combat.</p>\n\n<h3>Real-life vs Playing at War</h3>\n\n<p>In a real-life situation, these hormones would be used by the body to create a fight-or-flight response. However, as Gentile points out, they also turn us on and make us find a game more engaging.</p>\n\n<p>\"When you know you're safe, having that heightened sense of stress can be fun,\" explains Gentile.</p>\n\n<p>This theory is confirmed by iStrategyLabs' Megan Zlock, a self-confessed gamer. Zlock claims that a storyline is instantly made more impressive and immersive if there's an element of danger added to the mix.</p>\n\n<h3>Adding a Storyline to Complete the Creation of a War Game</h3>\n\n<p>\"If you want to create a good narrative, you need to create conflict, and violence is a really easy way to create conflict,\" said Zlock.</p>\n\n<p>Violence is a stimulant that, when triggered in the right setting, can be extremely enjoyable. Clearly, this is the case when it comes to immersive online war games. You’re in a war-like scenario; your body is tense from the stress of competition and the desire to win, so your brain reacts appropriately.</p>\n\n<p>Exercising a degree of control over such a situation can fill you with an intoxicating sense of power; especially if that control resulted in besting another player. Add in your stress hormones, and the resultant cocktail is one you're only too willing to drink for hours and hours.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Conflict is a great motivator\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_24/why-we-love-playing-war-games-4.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 400px;\" title=\"Conflict is a great motivator\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Why We Play War Games</h2>\n\n<p>Playing war games helps us show the world, and more specifically our enemies, that we are better than them: our strategy smarter, our reflexes sharper, and our skills superior.</p>\n\n<p>The thrill of competition, combined with the sense of power and accomplishment we derive from taking back control over seemingly chaotic situations are the reason war is such a prevalent theme in video games.</p>\n","date":"5/22/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"alt":"","href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_24/why-we-love-playing-war-games-3.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"12953"}}],"listArticles":[{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/twitchcon/"},"strings":{"title":"TwitchCon (2022) is Back with a BANG!"},"images":{"preview":{"alt":"TwitchCon 2022 is gonna be BIG","href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2022/twitch-con-1.webp"}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"14873"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/gaymer/"},"strings":{"title":"Are You a Gaymer? 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