Xbox

Section 8: Prejudice Brings Dedicated Servers To The Xbox 360

TimeGate Studios’ downloadable first-person shooter Section 8: Prejudice becomes the first Xbox 360 game to allow players to rent dedicated PC-hosted game servers. Fully configurable ranked and unranked servers for up to 32 players are now available through GameServers.com.


October 26, 2010
News

Local Aussie Servers For Homefront

Kotaku AU

With news of Blizzard’s issues with local servers still fresh in our minds, it’s a bit of a relief to hear that THQ and Kaos Studios are doing the right thing by Australians, commiting to providing dedicated multiplayer servers in Australia for their upcoming title Homefront.


September 14, 2010
News

New Site Petitions Black Ops Server Monopoly

Kotaku AU

In an effort to show Activision and Treyarch just how popular the idea of a server monopoly is amongst competitive PC gamers, a petition site has sprung up at FixBlackOps.com.


September 13, 2010
News

Call Of Duty: Black Ops Will Have Just One Dedicated Server Option

Stung by PC gamer outrage over the lack of dedicated server support in Modern Warfare 2, Activision has responded with something they’ll appreciate about as little: An exclusive deal making GameServers.com the only dedicated server option for Black Ops.


July 9, 2010
In Real Life

Dancing Man is the New Angry Hitler

Kotaku AU

He’s the yin to Angry Hitler’s yang. We’ll probably find out a lot more about this enthusiastic chap in the next few months. In this chronicle, we discover Dancing Man is an avid Call of Duty player.


February 21, 2010
News

Command & Conquer 4: No LAN Or Dedicated Servers Either

I suppose at some point this will cease to be news, but the franchises that made LAN gaming great continue to turn their back on it, providing a long slow obituary for the service. Command & Conquer is the latest.


February 17, 2010
News

Dedicated Server For Aliens Vs. Predator Coming Soon

Aliens vs. Predator released today, and PC players are stuck with peer-to-peer matchmaking for a little longer while Rebellion gets a dedicated server ready “in the next few days,” according to the studio.


January 28, 2010
News

No LAN Or Dedicated Servers For BioShock 2 Multiplayer

How dare 2K Games turn its back on the PC multiplayer community that made BioShock … oh … uh … that’s right. Well, they confirmed that BioShock 2 won’t support LAN gaming or dedicated servers anyway.


January 17, 2010
News

DICE Says It Won’t Profit Off Rented Servers For BFBC2

During the Modern Warfare 2 no-dedicated servers controversy, DICE was quick to say they would be supported in PC versions of Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Well, with one exception: Players would have to rent them, rather than build their own.


November 24, 2009
News

Then Vs Now: Infinity Ward On Dedicated Servers, Mods In 2007

How time changes men. In 2007, Infinity Ward were gushing over the important things in Call of Duty 4 PC, like dedicated servers, “fat pipes” and the involvement of the mod scene. Wonder what, in the intervening years, has changed?