Collapse of "Ye Olde" Blizzard is one on the most interesting stories in the video game industry right now. Especially in light of the resurgence of houses like

Collapse of "Ye Olde" Blizzard is one on the most interesting stories in the video game industry right now. Especially in light of the resurgence of houses like Capcom and SquareEnix. Would make a really interesting documentary actually! The lesson seems to be: there has been a paradigm shift in game dev that is just as momentous as the introduction of sound to cinema. Namely, using public cloud infra to introduce the illusion of LAN play with zero network lag. By distributing 128 tick servers in major regions, that magical 35ms ping time can be achieved. And the promise of render frame accuracy in client side prediction becomes real. Every game is essentially a fighting game now ;) Frost Giant engineers chat about SC2, RTS in general & BRAND NEW footage from their WIP project!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUHwzSQYYPE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUHwzSQYYPE