We were back at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last week! It was an interesting and educative journey; GDC is a great opportunity to experience the many facets of the gaming world, from developers and publishers with big household names to indie developers and the different tools that enable them to enter the [...]
Back to GDC: Trends in the online gaming industry
04.04.2013 By:
Filed Under: All Posts, Industry Insights, Internap Buzz
Free-to-play model emphasizes need for data center services
01.17.2013 By:
The massively multiplayer online RPG (MMORPG) genre has thrived in two different payment models — subscription and free to play. If you look at the industry as a whole, it appears as if the subscription model laid the groundwork for the MMORPG, while the free-to-play style has helped the genre expand. However, there is a [...]
Filed Under: All Posts, Colocation, Content Delivery Network (CDN), Data Centers, Industry Insights
Too Much Console Gaming Doom and Gloom
12.06.2012 By:
A recent CNN article by Blake Snow, entitled “Why console gaming is dying” tried to investigate the reasons behind the current downward trend in both console hardware and game sales. According to Mr. Snow, the roots of this trend are found in the rise of social/mobile gaming, the evolution of consoles as home entertainment devices, [...]
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