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Archive for "Jan 2010"

How to configure your Left 4 Dead 2 server for more than 8 slots. Up to 32, even!

Popular L4D2 modder and map maker Sky has written a great tutorial for configuring your Left 4 Dead 2 server to support more than 8 players.  With his instructions you can have up to 18 or 24 players on a single L4D2 server!  That’s a lot of madness. Naturally, we have a test server up [...]

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HostedGameServers.com now has a YouTube channel. Subscribe and stuff.

If you watch the footer of our site (everyone does, right??!) then you’ll notice that I added an ‘HGS Youtube Channel’ link. It’s not horribly important, but it does generate more links to the site. If you subscribe you can have a free cookie. Anyway, here it is: http://www.youtube.com/user/HostedGameServers Share on Facebook

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Feast your eyes on some awesome AvP3 (Aliens vs Predator 3) in game footage.

Just looking at the new AvP3 videos make me drool! I know it’s excessively bloody and gory, but the amount of ways you can play makes this a winner alone. You can use a variety of weapons and tactics, as well as finishing moves and an amazing first person experience. AvP3 has win all over [...]

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Aliens vs Predator 3 (AVP3) is now accepting pre-orders!

AVP3 is on pre-order and releasing soon so we’ve made it so you can pre-order your game server online now too.   You will be asked for your email and sent a special link when your server is available for purchase.  All it takes to reserve a server right now is your email. Once reserved, [...]

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BioShock 2 Removed from HGS!

Okay.  I’m crying as I write this.    BioShock 2 has confirmed they aren’t supporting dedicated servers.  They will be doing peer to peer only. That means that less than 24 hours after putting BioShock 2 up on the site… it’s coming right back down. Between this and Modern Warfare 2, I’m beginning to wonder: “Where are [...]

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Is GameServers.com down for you? Try HGS :-)

I was looking at our webmasters data and realized that we’re one of the top results for ‘gameservers.com down’…  So if you’re Googling around thinking ‘man… gameservers.com goes down a ton!’ then maybe you should switch to Hosted Game Servers!  We’re up and rockin’! Here’s our list of games. Share on Facebook

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It’s time to Pre-Order your BioShock 2 Hosting!

That’s it.  It’s time.  It’s here.  Not only can you pre-order http://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/8859/ on Steam, but you can pre-order your game server too.   You will be asked for your email and sent a special link when your server is available for purchase.  All it takes to reserve a serer now is your email. Once reserved, [...]

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We’re Google sandboxed. Drat.

Basically, we’re totally blocked for searches for ‘game servers‘ but we rank #7 in a search for ‘game severs‘… Yeah, I know… awesome.  The reason is because I had an old Modern Warfare 2 link in my sitemap.  Google crawled on it then promptly de-listed me in paranoid fashion. In time, and with more backlinks, [...]

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Ticket System Deployed!

When you bother us by writing support, you’ll now notice you get a reply with a link to your ticket’s history in our ticket system. We’re moving up in the world, aren’t we?!?! If you’re used to emailing support@hostedgameservers.com – that will still work; just remember to reply via the ticket system instead of sending [...]

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BioShock 2 Added to site. Pre-order coming soon.

We’re proud to announce BioShock 2′s addition to the site.  BioShock 2 will not only kick butt, but probably be a mainstream game for a good time to come.  With the ability to gain XP and customize yourself with different skills and abilities, I see some real staying power here. We’ll open up pre-order in [...]

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