Author: Marcel Faust

As a server host in an always-online environment, it’s crucial to communicate in a way that’s both informative and easy to understand, especially when explaining why private servers [...]

If we want to discuss the video game phenomena of recent decades without including Roblox, we might as well just stop this ongoing series and put our heads in server cases. However, Roblox is not [...]

The phrase “Winner Winner Chicken Dinner” originates from the time of the Great Depression, when people played and bet on street games and in casinos. The winner was able to afford a [...]

Challenging and fun are often cited as main criterias of individual types of games. These two words emphasize the idea that engaging in a daunting task, which requires effort and skill, can still [...]

The popular blend of base-building and collective monster hunting V-Rising has become even bigger and better with the release of the new “Secrets of Gloomrot” update. In addition to [...]

In our last episode, we talked about the history, pros and cons of Peer-to-Peer gaming. This time, the sole focus lies on a game that has been sold, at least, 240 Million times on PCs and [...]

We have been hosting games for twenty years now. Twenty years of connecting players all around the world with the help of a dedicated server structure. However, it should come to no surprise that [...]

By now it shouldn’t come as a surprise that we at GPORTAL are advocates for moddable gaming experiences. Mods bring in new talents for companies and game publishers, diversify the in-game variety [...]

Welcome (back) to part four of our retrospective view on how important games in video game history influenced the server hosting industry. This text, just like the last one, focuses on how the [...]