Quazal, makers of the Net-Z, Rendez-Vous and Spark! online multiplayer middleware today released one of the most significant version updates to their products, with significant upgrades to each of the three products.
Quazal Net-Z, the premiere in-game multiplayer middleware on the market, has now added in a true client-server topology to go alongside its existing award-winning peer-to-peer technology. More specifically, it introduces a generalized routing system that also enhances peer-to-peer connectivity.
Quazal Rendez-Vous, the eminently flexible lobby and matchmaking solution, has been enhanced with full support for Microsoft's Xbox 360 via LSP. This allows more developers and publishers to add increasingly advanced features to their Xbox 360 titles, including clans, tournaments, complex matchmaking and other innovative features that are limited only by their imagination. The first LSP-based Rendez-Vous titles will start shipping this fall.
Quazal Spark!, the 'lobby-in-a-box' solution built on top of Rendez-Vous improves its featureset with a flexible leaderboard and ranking system allowing developers to have multiple leaderboards with multiple ranking types within their game. Also, Spark! is now officially released for the Xbox 360 platform, running solely on Xbox Live, but sharing an integration profile with all other Spark! platforms, allowing for very rapid cross-platform lobby development. Finally, Spark! for the PLAYSTATION 3 has been enhanced for increased support for the PLAYSTATIONNetwork.
The PSP was ambition personified, so much so that it’s kinda wild to look back and realise what exactly Sony cooked up in 2004.
I still play my PSP. Sadly the UMD drive has stopped working, but I modded it to still be able to play my games (and then some). Such a great little portable.
The game looks like fun and here is the announcement trailer.
From the mid-1980s to the early part of the 2000s, light gun rail shooters were a staple in both arcade and home system gaming. Arguably, the genre started to really hit its stride in the mid-1990s. While games like Time Crisis, Virtual Cop, and House of the Dead, among others, dominated both the home system and arcade space, some one relegated to only home game systems. Today, we’ll be talking about a little-known cult game published by Sony called Project: Horned Owl. This game was developed by Alfa Systems, and all in all, this is a fun game.
Wow!
Xbox Live! just keeps getting better and better. With news of new Middleware and Microsoft upgrading their World Servers for their Xbox Live!, Live! Messenger (MSN), MSN and their new Microsoft Surface Technology, I'm damn glad I own an Xbox 360.