Warhawk online run by PS3s literally

12 August 2007

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Posted by:Ferry

To quote Warhawk developer Incognito talking about the online functionality at the PlayStation blog: “Those of you familiar with Warhawk already know that the game features a very unique server method that we call “Integrated Game Server” or IGS for short. The Warhawk IGS method means that instead of us forcing players to be connected to the SONY “mothership” for any and all games, we instead let players host their own servers on their own PS3s. This is fairly unique and it enables a couple of really nice benefits.

First, since Warhawk is a global online game, our IGS method scatters game servers quite literally into player’s homes all over the planet — the US, China, Europe, Australia, and Japan! No matter where you live, what time you want to play, or what language you speak, you’ll always be able to get your game on. Secondly, this helps with latency (good ping times).”

But here’s the big surprise to your right, these aren’t regular computer server… “What you’re looking at is an enormous server cluster for Warhawk… of rack-mounted PS3s!

In addition to players being able to host their own servers, 32-player “dedicated” servers for your clan practices or 24-player “player” servers, SONY has made a great commitment to all of our Warhawk players by staging Warhawk Server clusters similar to this one all over the world.” Warhawk will be released in America on August 28th, in Australia on September 6th, and in Europe on September 14th, 2007.