Running a Minecraft server is more than just hitting start — it’s about crafting a smooth, fun, and connected experience for your players. From installing modpacks on Exaroton to optimizing ...

New legislation in California would make it much more difficult to quickly shut down a failed live-service game.

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Hosting your own Minecraft SMP server can be a game-changing experience, whether you use free services like Aternos or run it from home. With the right setup, plugins, and community tools, you can ...

Minecraft 26.2 Snapshot 5 adds geysers, TNT Sulfur Cubes, mob tweaks, server upgrades and fixes. Java testers get a chaotic ...

Facepalm: Multiplayer servers for the real-time strategy game Stormgate will go offline at the end of the month after the infrastructure provider that hosts them was acquired by an AI company and ...

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 ...

Fortnite will finally allow creators to make their own officially-licensed Star Wars minigames, beginning this week. The ability to create Star Wars-themed games within Fortnite has long been promised ...

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In addition, GlassFish 8 embraces the future of concurrency in Java with support for virtual threads in its HTTP thread pools and managed executors, Mihalyi said. Virtual threads support enables the ...