Diablo III patched, servers break in the process
Oh dear - it looks like the latest Diablo III patch did more than nerf the monk - it also broke the servers.
Battlefield Bad Company 2 Servers Die, Reset Stats And More
[Update: Since the time of writing, EA has updated us on their blog with details about the server issues, what they are doing about it and who is effected. You can read all about it here .] Battlefield Bad Company 2 released this week for PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 and has had a couple of hiccups over its …
EA Still Closing Down Online Servers
EA have announced that they will be closing down even more of their online servers. Almost all of the games having their servers closed down are pretty old ones that no one is really playing, well I assume that that's why is closing them. The list includes a bunch of titles such as the Godfather for PS3 and Xbox 360 as well as Mercenaries 2 for PC, Lord of the Rings: Conquest for Xbox 360 and PS3 as well as Army of Two in Asia and for PS3 only. You can see all of them here . I guess that this all makes a lot of sense, you can't keep running these servers forever, and especially not if there are only a handful of people ever using them. When are Microsoft and Activision going to be shutting down the servers for Halo 3 and Modern Warfare 2? I hear that nobody plays those games anymore.
And it’s down – MAG Servers Crash
I have never seen a beta crash under load before. They have had other glitches but the amount of people who are trying out the MAG beta has to be a fair amount fewer than those expected to pick up the title on launch day and still the servers have crashed. This is very bad news for those who were …
MAG: End of Beta Roundup
The MAG beta is coming to an end and it’s time to look back and answer that all important question. Is it any good? Well in a nutshell… No… nah we’re just joking it is apparently really good. Unfortunately we didn’t get a Beta invite (must have got lost in the mail) but GamesRadar has put up a pretty lengthy …
Over 50% of Age of Conan's servers getting axed.
Funcom is now in the process of shutting down/merging a whole whack of their Age of Conan servers, presumably to save costs and keep their not-so-popular MMO afloat. Of the 49 initial servers, only 19 will remain in service for the unwashed barbarians players. The American audience took with biggest hit with a closure of 19 of the 25 servers. …
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