If you want to be part of an attempt to break the world record for most participants in a first-person shootout, mark January 29th down on your calendar. MuchDifferent, a Swedish nonprofit dedicated to "development of over-the-top technology," will host a game of "Man vs. Machine" with the hopes of having 1,000 players participate. Eight single-threaded servers running Unity (the in-browser game engine and development platform powering this game) will handle this potentially massive traffic influx. Each server will load up a portion of the battlefield and all servers are linked together through PikkoServer, a dynamic load balancer and traffic router that will help keep the game from lagging out or crashing due to the massive number of...
