Just maybe mute the all the voice channels before you start your session…

Getting multiplayer servers set up for games is a challenge, on top of all the work that goes into making games themselves. There’s an awful lot to contemplate, including the type of hardware, how many players to expect, the sorts of matchmaking types to support and an awful lot more. It’s why dedicated servers that run in the cloud – on systems like Amazon’s Web Services and Microsoft’s Azure. Microsoft wants even more developers to use Azure.

Battlefield 1 was left out of the initial server discussion, and rightfully so as they're getting their servers next week.

It's time for our yearly chat about local servers.

The final decision was no, but before you get all up in arms, let's take a minute to consider the outcome of not having local servers for League of Legends and what we can larn from Dota 2.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 will have dedicated servers, hosted locally. That's what this ping data suggests.

Let’s face the facts here. Thanks to a recent games sale based on seasonal climates by a certain other company, your bank account ain’t looking so great right now. And while googling how to make dog food palatable, you’re probably still going to want some more games for the collection. Well good news then, because there’s more than one place …

South African Dota 2 players have been buzzing all morning after a reddit thread confirmed that South Africa will have local Dota 2 servers. Not long after, MWEB GameZone announced that they will be hosting these servers.