Category: Game industry

i3D.net to host Race 07 worldwide

8 November, 2007 (14:17) | Business as usual, Game industry | 2 comments

Last Wednesday, gameserver provider (GSP) Interactive 3D and game developer SimBin, signed a exclusive hosting agreement for SimBin’s newest game title “RACE 07 – The Official WTCC Game”. Interactive 3D (i3D.net) will be the worldwide ‘Official SIMBIN hosting partner‘ for…

Bigger is better; why do some developers go the wrong way?

14 October, 2007 (17:08) | Game industry | No comments

Rumors say Battlefield 3 will support up to 40 people per team. With two teams in each online play, the server supports 80 people. The more players, the bigger the server, the better.

Gameserver with a large number of slots have…

Serverbrowser censorship

14 October, 2007 (16:37) | Game industry | No comments

A few days ago it became clear Valve actively filters the ingame serverbrowser on specific parameters disallowing any gameserver they dislike. In this specific case Valve filters out any gameserver larger than 24 slots for the game Team Fortress 2. The…

i3D.net expands: new locations, new servers

2 October, 2007 (12:24) | Business as usual, Game industry | 2 comments

Yup, we’re growing, in Europe and in a little while even beyond European borders:

i3D.net adds two additional locations: Frankfurt, Germany and London, United Kingdom. We are already active in Amsterdam and Rotterdam in The Netherlands.

Our Frankfurt location is already online…

One game, two gamers

14 September, 2007 (14:53) | Game industry | No comments

Crysis released a press announcement yesterday which shed some light on the multiplayer servers of this new upcoming EA game.

Rather than providing the community partially working features we limit this for the DX10 version only. Due to the strong hardware…

The underdog: Frontlines Fuel of War

12 September, 2007 (16:54) | Game industry | No comments

A few months ago I wrote about the big upcoming games in the last quarter of 2007. I totally missed one big upcoming game, Frontlines: Fuel of War, by THQ. This game will be a Battlefield 2 killer. The gameplay is…