We’ve written on several occasions about GameRail, the private gaming backbone providing low-latency connections to gamers. The service has announced that it is shutting down:
It is with deep regret to announce that the GameRail network has been discontinued at this time. Thank you to the gamers who have participated in the GameRail trial and support of its development […]

Is fast memory really worth it? The folks at Tom’s Hardware set out to find out, and the result is Tom’s Ultimate RAM Speed Test. Here’s an excerpt:
Memory vendors have become excellent at marketing their latest high-end products: DDR3-2000 speeds are currently considered state of the art for enthusiast Intel platforms based on Intel’s P35, […]

Bigfoot Networks has announced a new feature for its popular Killer NIC high-performance gaming network card. Killer Bandwidth Control lets gamers fine-tune how their Killer network card dedicates bandwidth to their games and other applications. Through a simple GUI interface, users can set how Killer should allocate bandwidth usage from other […]

High-speed gaming network GameRail is using routing services from Internap Network Services (INAP) to enhance its low latency connections to its audience of hard-core gaming customers, the companies announced today. Internap helps aggregate local broadband traffic and activity on to GameRail’s nationwide private network, which connects users directly to game sites.
GameRail […]

Computer maker Dell announced Friday that it will be spnsoring two of the world’s most recognized gaming teams – Team Pandemic and Ubisoft’s Frag Dolls. “With these sponsorships, Dell is ratcheting up its ability to network and play directly with college student and women gamers, via gaming events, online forums and other […]

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If you were foolish enough to get The Orange Box for the PS3 despite its negative previews, then you’re most probably moping about how bad the loading times and the framerate are, among other things. Well, there’s good news: there’s a very good chance of a patch coming.
But forget the speculation you’ll read—we’ve got proof. […]

The World Series of Video Games has announced that it is cancellling the remainder of its scheduled events. Series organizer Games Media Properties cited growing competition in the professional gaming circuit as a major factor. “We have been grateful for the generous support provided by Intel and other sponsors since our inception,” the […]

A quick update: Back in February we reported that the FPS Rantings blog from blog network B5 Media was shutting down. In fact, it was just going on hiatus, and is now back and being regularly updated by Michael Leano.

A strange story from Gizmodo: A Brazilian gang kidnapped one of the leading players of GunBound, a turn-based RPG-style multiplayer online game, hoping to obtain his password and sell the account. One of the criminals’ girlfriends arranged a meeting with the gamer via Orkut, the Google-run social network that is huge in Brazil. When he […]