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PunkBuster is a computer program that is designed to detect software used for cheating in online games. It does this by scanning the memory contents of the local machine. A computer identified as using cheats may be banned from connecting to protected servers.
Starting from the release of Battlefield 3 in 2011 until November 2019, every first-party game EA published on PC was exclusive to the Origin service. In late 2019, EA began releasing their games on Steam again, starting with Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order ; however, the game still uses the Origin client to launch. [ 28 ]
Windows: Yes: Discontinued: Officially shut down on February 8, 2013. ... Servers shut down on April 26, 2018. [22] ... but the game is still playable on Xbox and PC ...
Windows: Source engine: Proprietary license Tactical episodic shooter. Single/Multiplayer. Marathon: Bungie: 1994-12-21 2007 Mac OS (original), ported to Linux, OS X and Windows via AlephOne: Aleph One: GNU GPL (code) Released as freeware and source code. Nexuiz: Alientrap 2005-05-31 2009-10-01 (2.5.2) Linux, OS X (10.4 or later), Windows ...
Battlefield 4 is a 2013 first-person shooter video game developed by DICE and published by Electronic Arts.The game was released in October and November for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, and is the sequel to 2011's Battlefield 3, taking place six years later during the fictional "War of 2020".
Battlefield 2142 is a 2006 first-person shooter video game developed by DICE and published by Electronic Arts.It is the fourth game in the Battlefield series. Battlefield 2142 is set in 2142, depicting a war known as "The Cold War of the 22nd Century", in which two military superpowers – the European Union (EU) and Pan Asian Coalition (PAC) – battle for the remaining unfrozen land during a ...
GameSpy was an American provider of online multiplayer and matchmaking middleware for video games founded in 1999 by Mark Surfas. [2] After the release of a multiplayer server browser for Quake, QSpy, Surfas licensed the software under the GameSpy brand to other video game publishers through a newly established company, GameSpy Industries, which also incorporated his Planet Network of video ...
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. They also receive and process each ...