A Minecraft hosting server allows users to customise the physics of the game the way they want. It allows users to pick and add players to their fantasy world of building blocks, assign them roles, as ...

The Entertainment Software Association, in its infinite wisdom, has told a California Senate committee that private and community servers are illegal and amount to piracy.

Minecraft master Craftee explores the authentic and original multiplayer experience designed by the creators of the blocky world. Lake Powell nears "dead power pool"—what it means for millions of ...

We're now just five days away from Battlefield Hardline multiplayer ceasing to function on Xbox and PlayStation. Servers go offline for good on Monday, 22nd June. EA revealed its intention to take the ...

Minecraft Java 26.2 Chaos Cubed update introduces Sulfur Caves, Sulfur Spikes, Friends List support, Vulkan graphics options, new music tracks, gameplay fixes, and quality-of-life improvements across ...

Senior backend engineer at KAYAK building systems at scale. Writes about distributed systems, AI and tradeoffs. The software integration paradigm has broken down. For decades, backend engineers built ...

Minecraft Java’s Friends List brings easier invites, peer-to-peer worlds, and privacy choices. Here is why this small feature could change co op play.

Stormgate, a game made by former StarCraft 2 developers, aimed to "boldly advance" real-time strategy games by lowering the barrier to entry in an otherwise inaccessible genre. Three years after its ...

PCWorld reports that Stormgate’s multiplayer services are shutting down after its server provider Hathora was acquired by Fireworks AI and is exiting game infrastructure. The AI industry’s expansion ...