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…

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…

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…

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…

Three nights in New York

29 August, 2007 (14:12) | Business as usual, Hosting industry, Travelling! | No comments

This Saturday I will fly to New York again for a quick meeting with a game publisher and the developers of one of their big upcoming games.

This time NY is all about business :)

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…