Free ‘webbased’ shooters for 2008

29 May, 2008 (13:36) | Game industry | 3 comments

This year two new online shooters will be released for free. Quake Live and Battlefield Heroes are scheduled for release in the 2nd half of 2008. Both games rely on advertising and a large online social community as they are free for…

THQ: Dedicated XBOX360 servers in upcoming beta

21 December, 2007 (23:35) | Game industry | No comments

FRONTLINES: FUEL OF WAR MULTIPLAYER DEMO CONFIRMED FOR XBOX LIVE!

And Kaos Studios have been listening to your feedback…

Xbox 360 owners were able to get an early taste of Frontlines: Fuel of War’s single player mode thanks to last week’s demo, but…

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…

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…

Back from NY, new business to look forward to

10 September, 2007 (12:30) | Business as usual, Game industry | No comments

Last week I had the privilege to meet with the guys from one of the hottest game development studios, and it was great. Our company will have to prepare for a new exciting project for multiple locations all over Europe. We’re looking…

Hosting XBOX360 and PS3 gameservers

18 August, 2007 (17:18) | Game industry, Hosting industry | No comments

With the growing console market, hosting console gameservers is a very wise decision considering the number of console gamers is growing faster than pc-gamers and the gameserver hosting is a b2b transaction instead of b2c. Console gamers pay for their…