Private: 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...
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...
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...
Everything You Think You Know About Cloud Gaming Is Wrong Cloud gaming holds multiple meanings depending on who you talk to. Shrouded in ambiguity and carrying a certain mystique, it often looks like a new method of distribution; the premise of on-demand gaming being...
Building the future of cloud-based MMOs with EVE Aether Wars Creating compelling multiplayer experiences is one of the toughest challenges game developers face today, especially at scale. The technical complexity in building and running an online multiplayer game,...
Net Relevancy and Compression: How to Push Gbps of Gamestate Over The Internet Building massively multiplayer online games has a problem: the internet. Specifically, the internet connection close to the user, the “last mile”. These links have much lower bandwidth than...
