1. Battlefield servers experience troubles
(Articles/Video Game News)

EA's servers yo-yo, publisher promises reset. EA's Battlefield: Bad Company 2 severs have experienced down time today, forcing the publisher to perform emergency maintenance. Click here to read the ...

2. PC Assassin's Creed II stumbles on Ubisoft DRM
(Articles/Video Game News)

... Assassin's Creed II. While attempting to play the single-player campaign, GameSpot has received error messages stating that Ubi.com's online servers are down and that an accurately inputted user name and ...

3. Valve Bringing Steam To Macs In April
(Articles/Video Game News)

... purchased games on Steam for PC will be able to play them all for free on their Macs as well, thanks to the new Steam Play feature. Also, multiplayer (sharing servers, lobbies, etc.) will be cross-platform ...

4. Ubisoft: "Our servers are under attack"
(Articles/Video Game News)

Players locked out of games again. Some players have been locked out of their Ubisoft games again as the publisher's servers buckle under demand. Click here to read the full article  ...

5. Ubisoft apologises for DRM issues
(Articles/Video Game News)

... of its servers for the issue. Click here to read the full article  ...

6. EA resets servers for Battlefield: Bad Company 2
(Articles/Video Game News)

360 maintenance will be finished within the hour, promises publisher. EA is in the process of resetting the online servers for the Xbox 360 version of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - following problems ...

7. Patriot Box Office
(Articles/Hardware News)

... directories on networked servers is frustrating. It’s up to you to organize your files before connecting to the Box Office, but we wish its UI was smarter at discovering and sorting files. This seems to ...

8. Assassin's Creed II DRM Requires Internet Connection
(Articles/Video Game News)

... kicks you and automatically reverts back to your last save point. Do. Not. Want. This means playing the game will be impossible if Ubisoft's servers are down. It will not function on a laptop on an ...

9. Assassin's Creed II PC requires net connection
(Articles/Video Game News)

PC Gamer looks into Ubi's DRM. PC Gamer has said that a constant net connection is required to play Assassin's Creed 2 on PC. And if you lose connection with Ubi's servers it kicks you out of your game. ...

10. EA shuts more online servers
(Articles/Video Game News)

360, PS3 and PC servers get the chop. EA has said that several more online servers for its games will close across March and April. Here's the word. Click here to read the full article  ...

11. HP MediaSmart EX495
(Articles/Hardware News)

... MediaSmart 3.0 software as a free upgrade in the near future.   Finally, the EX495 is actually $100 cheaper than its predecessor—though still almost twice as expensive as Atom-based Home Servers. If you ...

12. Western Digital WD TV Live
(Articles/Hardware News)

... behind. The player earns its Live moniker with a built-in Ethernet port, so it can browse and play files off media servers, and network shares off your home network. High-def videos stored on a local ...

13. BioShock 2 Multiplayer: No LAN Support, Dedicated Servers Or Unranked Matches
(Articles/Video Game News)

... chance that the revelation that 2K Marin’s continuation of the BioShock saga will not include LAN support or dedicated servers for multiplayer might cause at least some frustration to surface among multiplayer ...

14. Assassin's Creed II to use new PC DRM platform
(Articles/Video Game News)

... online servers. The publisher notes that if it stops supporting its Online Services Platform, a patch will be released so that "the core game play will not be affected." Ubisoft also said that the online ...

15. EA to close numerous online servers
(Articles/Video Game News)

Servers for "older EA titles" up for the chop. EA has released a service update informing people still playing really old football games on PS2 and Xbox that the online servers will soon be closed ...

16. Left 4 Dead 2 PC update released
(Articles/Video Game News)

...  Reduced Dedicated Server max search ping to 150 ms Teams that prefer listen servers will no longer be matched with teams that prefer dedicated servers Official dedicated servers are now preferred ...

17. Infinity Ward teases PC Modern Warfare 2 mod tools
(Articles/Video Game News)

... a console-esque online multiplayer matchmaking service for the PC edition, one that denied desktop gamers the ability to operate dedicated servers or create custom mods. And while desktop gamers vehemently ...

18. Sony Mentions Charging For PSN
(Articles/Video Game News)

... If there is a plan for pay-for-play, it isn't public yet. Below are Chatani's words. Parse them as you see fit: "Servers and the like have running costs... after we sell the hardware, though, we continue ...

19. Modern Warfare 2 PC cheaters banned
(Articles/Video Game News)

Infinity Ward has conducted a wave of bans aimed at culling cheaters on the PC version of Modern Warfare 2. The developer's decision to ditch dedicated servers was supposed to make illegal tinkering ...

20. Left 4 Dead 2 patch is out
(Articles/Video Game News)

... problem when rendering lots of decals, notably when fighting tanks with shotguns Fixed rcon response not working on Linux dedicated servers Fixed matchmaking problem matching into Advanced and Expert ...