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BF3 awards

Stewie — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:57:39 +0000

Battlefield 3 received great ratings and awards in the past months – this award list is located in the Dice lobby.

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Branding in suite 24 at SmartDC

Stewie — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:32:24 +0000

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New servers in Sydney, Australia

Stewie — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:00:55 +0000

Stefan returned from his trip to Sydney; he doubled our local presence and setup network for a new game launch:

Homefront launch party

Stewie — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:06:21 +0000

We attended the Homefront launch party in San Francisco. The city was also host to the GDC and Homefront was featured on almost every billboard in town.

Homefront is coming!

Stewie — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:59:54 +0000

This huge bill board is at 47th and 7th, Times Sq, in New York City

New suite, new racks, new servers

Stewie — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:50:11 +0000

The datacenter technicians are racking new HP servers in our newest suite at the SmartDC datacenter in Rotterdam. This new high density suite houses 32 racks each with 44 1u servers, totalling 1408 servers. All racks have 96 switch ports available and custom made PDUs to allow this many servers to be used in every rack. A truly amazing sight.

Free Battlefield Heroes game server?

Stewie — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:55:20 +0000

On www.battlefieldheroes.com, ShadeShooter announced a very special promotion:

One of our trusted server providers i3D.net have gone nuts this year with an offer that you just can’t refuse. For a limited time only you will be able to get your hands on a free, yes, FREE! Battlefield Heroes trial server in London (England).

These servers will allow you a feel of what it is like to run your own server for a trial period at no cost to you. These servers will remain online until November 10th, so the faster you take advantage of this offer, the longer you can be the KING or QUEEN of your own server.

How to get in on this incredible offer?

Create an account at i3D.net

Click on game servers and select “order new gaming package” from the drop down menu.

Choose the option that states “Free London Game Server” that includes Battlefield Heroes.

Complete any other sections as needed.

Server Renewal

If you enjoy having your own Battlefield Heroes server to play in and change to your own liking then it doesn’t have to end there, does it?

Simply contact i3D’s support department and request for an extension before November 9th and not only will you get your own server, but as an added bonus for extending it, you will gain a whopping 25% discount AND you don’t pay any set-up fees.

But wait…there’s more!

Included with this free server offer, i3D are also offering a 50% discount on TeamSpeak 3 and Ventrilo when ordering a new game server!
And don’t forget those bonus Battlefunds. When you order a server with i3D.net you also get several 50 Battlefunds codes for you and your friends.

Let’s not forget, Christmas is just on the horizon, so why not get into the festive cheer early with i3D.net’s offer.

i3D.net Free game server counter hit 2000 game servers! Wow!

One thousand new servers

Stewie — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:20:48 +0000

Hosting provider i3D.net recently installed one thousand new servers in the SmartDC Rotterdam data center. More than 75% of these servers is an HP hardware configuration.

i3D.net choose HP as a second brand to it’s growing server base. Together with Dell, HP completes the i3D.net signature dedicated server line.
HP servers deliver quality and expandability, allowing customers to grow on demand. The new batch of servers has the following three configurations:

HP DL180
Dual Intel Xeon Quadcore 5506
8 GB ram
12x 1 TB disk with raid

HP DL160
Dual Intel Xeon Quadcore L5630
12 GB ram
2x 250 GB disk with raid (max 4)

HP DL120
Intel Xeon Quadcore X3430
4 GB ram
250 GB disk (max 4)

i3D.net expands Tokyo location

Stewie — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:31:24 +0000

Hosting provider i3D.net expanded the Tokyo data center location. This location serves the Japanese and local Asian market with Xbox360 and PlayStation 3 game servers. An investment of 35 million Japanese Yen was made.

Thanks for the cake!

Stewie — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:39:07 +0000

Dutch television station BNN send us cake! Yummie!

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