Inside the gaming industry
Well, here you see the worst caste scenario.
The Battlefield 2 Ranked game servers maintain a constant connection to the EA/GameSpy backend for stats processing.
If this connection is interrupted, all players are dropped, the game servers crash. Not just one game servers, but…
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…
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…
Yes, gaming season 2007/2008 is coming closer every day. In the next few months 6 huge multiplayer games will hit the stores:
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In yesterdays post I discussed the biggest problem in the online game industry. Today I will discuss a solution that has already been put into practice by two publishers.
Licensing: new developments
EA (Electronic Arts) started in the summer of 2005 with ‘ranking’-software. EA handpicked a few companies…
Given the current market, a market filled with lots of small gamehosters and a few bigger professional ones, the question is not ‘if the market will change’ but ‘when does the market change’.
The situation nowadays
Nowadays the quality of service gamehosting…