Ever since I played my first Massively-Multiplayer game I have been addicted. Not to the games, but to know how they can possibly work. Managing thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of simultaneous players is no small feat. When I moved to the games...

So, my very first post on my shiny new blog! I should probably say a little about me otherwise nobody will know who I am or what I do and that might be sort of pointless... My name is Joe Hegarty and I'm a Network Programmer at Lionhead Studios which...