One of the great features of MMOs is playing with your friends or guild. The social aspect of MMO keeps people playing over long periods of time because of the friendships they form. In looking at how ...

While many loot shooters have featured ‘instanced loot’ for players over the years, Borderlands 3 has taken things a step further. Normally, ‘instanced loot’ would only allow players to pick up their ...

After recently spending a fair amount of time playing both City of Heroes and Guild Wars I got to thinking about what it was that appealed to me so much about online games. The answer was simple, the ...

When working in WCF you should be aware of the concepts of instancing, throttling, and concurrency to build services that are scalable and can provide better throughput. Throttling in WCF is used to ...

Long time EverQuest icon and now Vanguard: Saga of Heroes designer Brad McQuaid talked extensively on instancing in massively multiplayer games. WTF is instancing? Long story short its like creating a ...

Geometry instancing is enabled by default when the Shader Model 3.0 path is being used, so it is enabled by default on any GeForce 6 board, providing you have forced the Shader Model 3.0 path, or are ...

If you regularly use Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps on Windows 10, you have some good news coming your way. Microsoft has announced that starting with Windows 10 version 1803, developers can ...