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Tekken 6 Online Play Less Of A Turkey On Thursday
2:40AM Mike Fahey | If you’ve got any strength left to hold a controller after gorging yourself on Thanksgiving, why not hop online to give the eagerly-awaited Tekken 6 lag patch a spin? More »
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9:00AM David Wildgoose | Yep, we know you’re all experiencing problems with the new matchmaking system built into Modern Warfare 2. Maybe it’s working OK for US gamers, but it has been a nightmare for any Aussies trying to join a game without being killed by lag. So what to do? More »
Let’s All Play Modern Warfare 2
9:00AM David Wildgoose | Yep, we know you’re all experiencing problems with the new matchmaking system built into Modern Warfare 2. Maybe it’s working OK for US gamers, but it has been a nightmare for any Aussies trying to join a game without being killed by lag. So what to do? More »
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2:00PM David Wildgoose | That’s the word, according to Blizzard’s Rob Pardo. They’re “looking into” it, although there is nothing to announce right now. More »
Blizzard “Looking Into” Aussie StarCraft II Servers
2:00PM David Wildgoose | That’s the word, according to Blizzard’s Rob Pardo. They’re “looking into” it, although there is nothing to announce right now. More » 
Internode Proxy May Improve World of Warcraft Lag
12:00PM Logan Booker | The 2.3 update to Blizzard’s frightfully popular MMO World of Warcraft might have brought with it a nasty case of the high pings.
While latency for the online RPG usually varies between 200-500ms for Australian players, the higher end of this spectrum has been getting more of a workout than usual, according to user reports over at Oz telecommunications and ISP news site Whirlpool.
Adelaide-based ISP Internode believes the problem lies with various changes Blizzard made to the protocols used by WoW to communicate between the client and server.
With Blizzard apparently lacking the motivation to address the problem, Internode has come up with its own solution, in the form of a proxy.
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