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Reimagining Virtual Events for Thousands of Attendees
Since being placed under lockdown in March, many of us have turned to the freedoms of the virtual world. Imaginations have been captured and it has borne rise to a diverse set of events and activities including avatar concerts, the flourishing trade of virtual goods...
What Does the Future of eSports Look Like?
There seems to be more appetite than ever for gaming as a spectator sport. Last year, eSports drew in a total audience of 443 million people, a 12% increase in growth in 2018. This figure is expected to grow another 11.7% this year. The pandemic has brought even more...
Meet the Team: Q&A with Chris Sinclair (SDK developer)
As part of our new Meet The Team series, you’ll meet members of our team who work hard to deliver great products and hopefully get a sense of what it's like working at Hadean. If you want to find out more about joining our team, take a look at our Careers page. To...
Why Does Cloud Gaming Need Cloud-Native Development?
Last week, Juniper Research released a whitepaper titled Will Cloud Gaming Change the Way We Play?. It discusses the impact that cloud gaming and other subscription models are already having on the video game industry and a forecast for the anticipated value of the...
Is Gaming The Future of Social Networking?
Games are increasingly becoming social spaces. 56% of the most frequent gamers play multiplayer games and spend an average of 7 hours per week playing with others online. 55% of them point out that video games help connect them with their friends. Such is our desire...
Opening Up New Possibilities with Minecraft
Minecraft adopts Hadean's Aether Engine to dynamically scale new gaming experiences We are delighted to be working with Mojang Studios on the best-selling game of all time, Minecraft. The project, which kicks off this month, will utilise Aether Engine to explore all...
Container History and Linux Namespaces Part 2: Cgroups
Recap In the last article we looked at a(n incomplete) history of containers and dived a bit into Linux namespaces, which help you partition parts of your system and limit their capabilities. However, namespaces aren’t so useful for limiting hardware resources. This...
Container History and Linux Namespaces Part 1
Some Container History Virtual Machines, allowing the emulation of hardware and running operating systems inside one another, have existed for over 50 years. They’re great for hosting heterogeneous systems, but have a performance overhead. Docker started getting...
How Can MMOs Better Prepare for their Own Popularity?
Last month, Media Tonic’s Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout got off to a bit of a false start. 1.5 million users tried to connect within the first 24 hours and the game couldn’t handle the weight. Even more dramatically, in March of this year Last Oasis was taken offline...