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He meant "Triumph of the Nerds"

@Rinedog They have their own servers because PSN doesn't offer any hosting services. Go back to the original Xbox Live announcements and EA's reactions to it and you will see the history there..

Concept art suggests Incarnate breast jiggle technology.

Ah, Toril. Memories. I miss Sojourn.

@TheDarkWayne Yeah. I hope they can do something more creative than just another Zynga game clone.

@BtheCarp Read his twitter responses -- for even small feature changes like the "controversial" GameFlow, people send him death threats. People really need to get a life.

@Shadowbender Madden is already halfway through alpha; they aren't making creative direction changes at this point so that's why Ian said it's in good hands.

@Keen and Graev It's simple, really, they are using a Service-Oriented-Architecture rather than just a distributed cluster of identical servers (aka shards). Each service is generally some kind of network endpoint (RPC, Thrift, WS-*/SOAP, etc) with a well-known shared address via some kind of discovery service (Bonjour, WS-Discovery, UDDI, etc). When the leaf node which accepts connections from players needs to fetch some information or process some work, it connects out to an available service of a type. They could either be using a traditional hw or sw network load balancer, such that it doesn't even need to be aware of the amount of services of that type (just one address) or the discovery might have that functionality built in (communicating back and forth about load metrics with the services or doing watchdog duties).

Yep, just another Witch Hunt...

At least Human Revolution kept the IP, main tenets, and gameplay style. XCom is just a 50's X-Files shooter with name slapped on so not to lose the trademark.