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2. List of local multiplayer video games by system - Wikipedia

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   That said, according to the dataset gathered by the website Co-optimus (also incomplete but with more than 1000 games), there's a clear peak in local multiplayer games around the 7° generation of consoles coinciding with the popularization of online multiplayer games on consoles like the PS3 and XBOX 360. Local Multiplayer Games Throughout the ...

3. Game server - Wikipedia

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   A game server (also sometimes referred to as a host) is a server which is the authoritative source of events in a multiplayer video game. The server transmits enough data about its internal state to allow its connected clients to maintain their own accurate version of the game world for display to players.

4. Minecraft server - Wikipedia

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   A Minecraft server is a player-owned or business-owned multiplayer game server for the 2011 Mojang Studios video game Minecraft. In this context, the term "server" often refers to a network of connected servers, rather than a single machine. [ 1 ]

5. LAN party - Wikipedia

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   At bigger LANs (e.g. 5 or more people) the host or a friend of the host will use a spare PC as a game server to serve all the participants. Usually the host and/or the owner are administrators. The group can play together in another server as well if they wish as long as they are in the same LAN.

6. List of multiplayer online battle arena games - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of multiplayer online battle arena games, sorted chronologically. Information regarding date of release, developer, platform, setting and notability is provided when available. Information regarding date of release, developer, platform, setting and notability is provided when available.

7. Cross-platform play - Wikipedia

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   With the availability of the Internet, games have included online multiplayer components, allowing two or more users to play simultaneously on different computer systems. Games released for a platform may be able to take advantage of platform-specific networking libraries to accomplish this, such as the Winsock layer for Microsoft Windows ...

8. Matchmaking (video games) - Wikipedia

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   Server browsers made online gaming easy for the first time and its popularity grew rapidly as a result. Matchmaking saw its next major evolution with the release of Halo 2 in 2004. The clan culture needed to support dedicated servers had not made the leap to consoles , and expecting players to self-host had proved limiting.

9. Multiplayer video game - Wikipedia

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   A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, [1] either locally on the same computing system (couch co-op), on different computing systems via a local area network, or via a wide area network, most commonly the Internet (e.g. World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, DayZ).