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Ready At Dawn is to partner with the UK-based game server hosting specialist Multiplay to host its new physics-based arena brawler, Deformers, which releases today. Multiplay previously hosted Respawn’s Titanfall 2 and Tripwire Interactive’s Killing Floor 2 last year. Using its own hybrid cloud orchestration service, Multiplay’s technology allows Ready …
Read More »GameSpy shutdown means 50 EA games will terminate online support
The closure of GameSpy’s online multiplayer servers is going to affect 50 EA games, the publisher has said. The list includes Battlefield 1942 on PC and Mac, Bulletstorm on PS3, Crysis and Crysis 2 on PC and a host of DS titles including some FIFAs and Need for Speeds. Since …
Read More »EVE and Dust 514 to merge servers tomorrow
CCP will tomorrow merge its established PC MMO EVE and experimental PS3 shooter Dust 514 tomorrow. The most notable change will be the inclusion of Dust players in EVE’s chat system. Dust mercenaries will also be able to join EVE corporations and accept contracts from NPC Faction Warfare militias. EVE …
Read More »FIFA 11 among several EA titles to lose online features
EA has announced a list of titles whose online support will be terminated on January 11th. The most notable game is FIFA 11, for which both online play and Ultimate Team functionality will be shut off. Also facing the chop are NFL 11, NBA Jam and FIFA Manager 11. The …
Read More »Molyneux admits "it’s not good enough" but don’t you dare lose faith in Curiosity
What your article says is right. We were not prepared for the numbers that hit our app. "I can be as proud as I like about how hard people have worked and how quickly they’ve implemented a completely new server system – it’s miraculous – but at the end of …
Read More »Molyneux apologises for Curiosity’s technical troubles
Developer 22Cans and Peter Molyneux have apologised for the technical troubles that have so far plagued the launch of debut title Curiosity: What’s Inside The Cube?. In a video that you can see below Molyneux promises that the team believes it has the solution to its server problems, which as …
Read More »Old Republic has ‘up to 1.5m’ players
It’s been live less than a week but Star Wars: The Old Republic could have as many as 1.5m users signed up already. EA’s subscription-based PC MMO went on sale in UK retailers today, although customers who pre-ordered it early have been able to log in and play it since …
Read More »Fresh round of EA online culls announced
EA will shut down the online servers for 31 of its titles over the next few weeks, it has been confirmed. Affected titles include Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09, FIFA 09, The Sims Carnival, Madden 09 and Madden 10 on PSP and FIFA Street 3. Also due for the chop …
Read More »GT5 gets browser gameplay mode
A new and interesting inclusion in Sony’s Gran Turismo 5 has been revealed that will allow gamers to play some aspects of the game remotely via a web browser. GamePro reports that the B-Spec mode – essentially a management option where gamers don’t race per se but instead control the …
Read More »Ubi servers suffer fresh attack
Publisher Ubisoft has revealed that the servers set-up to facilitate its new PC game DRM strategy are once again under attack in what many are presuming is a further protest against its anti-piracy measures. Players of both Assassin’s Creed II and Silent Hunter 5 – the first two games from …
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