Or you can log on to a game server and try your luck against total strangers blasting Nazis or aliens, though it's more fun to "frag" a friend.
Enter Sibblingz: a startup that Tuesday launched a cloud-based game server that allows game developers to more quickly and easily create free-to-play games with micro-transactions in them, across Facebook, iPhone and the Web simultaneously.
Goblinworks is hoping to host the entire game on one server, meaning all players will exist in the same game world at the same time.
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The game already uses the server-side architecture for a wide range of game processes, and moving all that processing power to the PC would be no simple hotfix.
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It appears that the company placed a copy of the game on its public server, under password protection, for select reviewers to download and try out.
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The Linksys Powerline AV 4-Port Network Adapter Kit (PLSK400). (Includes one 1-port powerline adapter and a 4-port powerline adapter) This kit is ideal for the home media room where users can connect a TV, game console, media server and networked DVD player.
Where, for example, should a copyright or trademark claim involving in-game content created on a server in the U.S. by a player in Japan using software provided by a server owner in France be enforced?
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Game play from an NVIDIA GRID server feels like that from a console next to a TV.
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Since everyone is on the same server and since the game is so huge and demanding that no PC could render everyone at the same time, this system ensures that everyone can play together but also apart.
It allows you to hand-wave weak sales or bad reviews and blame outside factors like pirates or server failures in the event the game struggles.
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Netflix uses hundreds of ELBs, but only "a handful" failed -- devices using these specific ELBs, including game consoles, were unable to access the server.
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This left many believing that they would have to game on their own, as the overflow server would prevent them from being able to slay fiends with friends.
Each server can deliver up to 36 game streams.
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Until the server syncs and tries to save your game in their cloud storage, and then it fails.
Second, remember that when they decide to shut down a server for an always-on-DRM game, even if it's really just a single player game, it is legally unplayable.
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But ask a gamer, and the answer may well be the name of a server that hosts his or her favorite massively multiplayer online game (MMOG).
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Even Microsoft is getting into the game with its Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) that enables SQL Server customers evolve their SQL databases to Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architecture to take advantage of commodity hardware.
The four runners up in this category included a game called Neutron Craft by Bradley Pollard, aged 18, , a web server called Pancake by Yussuf Khalil (15), a file synchroniser built by Hannes Westermann, also 17, called BerryBox and a music player called RasPod from 17-year-old Aneesh Dogra.
The original Battlefield games were great, one could set up a small server and play capture the flag with their friends, or just play the game anytime, anywhere.
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In fact, the game sounds like it should be a very strong offering, with an overhaul to the server engine, the graphics engine, the UI, the gameplay, and just about everything else.
In one of its latest messages, an EA spokeswoman said it had added server capacity and rolled out a quick fix to SimCity servers to speed up game play and get more people into the game.
Gamers struggled to download the game from the Origin servers and, once they had it, they struggled to find a server with enough room for them.
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