Comments on: Verizon Offers Free Dedicated Servers http://www.aeropause.com/2006/08/verizon-offers-free-dedicated-servers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=verizon-offers-free-dedicated-servers Aeropause is a video game blog that explores game culture, trends, technologies and innovations Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:19:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Jason Henderson http://www.aeropause.com/2006/08/verizon-offers-free-dedicated-servers/comment-page-1/#comment-13761 Jason Henderson Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:31:07 +0000 http://www.aeropause.com/wordpress/2006/08/verizon-offers-free-dedicated-servers/#comment-13761 I'll tell you how console games are supported-- whereas PC games are supported through hosted servers OR through virtual LAN hosting, console games are supported through virtual LAN hosting. So if your Xbox is on your network and mine is on mine, we can launch and join Call of Duty on our Xboxes as if we'd LANed them together. Neat, huh? Basically, PlayLinc creates a fake LAN on the net, and you can launch anything on it. This is actually how Xbox Live works as well-- the host runs the game on his machine. But hosted servers are strictly for PC games. I’ll tell you how console games are supported– whereas PC games are supported through hosted servers OR through virtual LAN hosting, console games are supported through virtual LAN hosting. So if your Xbox is on your network and mine is on mine, we can launch and join Call of Duty on our Xboxes as if we’d LANed them together.

Neat, huh? Basically, PlayLinc creates a fake LAN on the net, and you can launch anything on it. This is actually how Xbox Live works as well– the host runs the game on his machine.

But hosted servers are strictly for PC games.

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