Think piece: Let modders shape your game
“Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.” Maybe it was this quote by Christopher Reeves that the Barotrauma team took to heart during the development of [...]
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From Pong to Ping: Modding Times
Welcome back to our ongoing series in which we shine a light on different aspects of the video game history and the impacts they had on game hosting services, as thoroughly explained in our last [...]
Think piece: Is survival possible without dedicated servers?
Survival games tend to magnetically attract lots of players. They usually include open-ended gameplay but more than often choose to offer a story that can be completed alone or with a group of [...]
From Pong to Ping: 20 years online
Welcome to our second part of “From Pong to Ping”. In this series we’re going to look at the evolution of hosted gaming from different angles, through the eyes of a game hoster with twenty [...]
Think piece: Multiplayer should be your new standard
It only took a week before Hogwarts Legacy, the excitingly anticipated role playing game that allows players to experience the magical world of Harry Potter on their own, made headlines with [...]
From Pong to Ping: A Retrospective
37.000. This number reflects how many private G-Portal servers the multiplayer hit “V Rising” needed at its peak to fulfill the ever increasing demands of its players and proves that it was [...]