Dedicated Multiplayer Server Support Confirmed for Australia
Melbourne, Australia, March 1, 2011 — THQ Inc. (NASDAQ:THQI) today launched multiple dedicated servers across Australia for Homefront, a new First Person Shooter (FPS) from internal developer Kaos Studios®.
The servers are live as of today. Featuring a competitive multiplayer suite, including unique game play elements: Battle Points and Battle Commander, Homefront is scheduled for release in Australia on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION® 3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC on March 17 2011.
“THQ and Kaos are committed to providing dedicated multiplayer servers around the world for both console and PC versions of Homefront. Furthermore, the PC SKU will allow gamers to set up and host games on their own servers, a feature that has been slowly disappearing from the online space in recent years,” said Drew Como, Director of Infrastructure, THQ.
“By providing gamers with best-in-class server support for a genre-leading 32 player competitive multiplayer experience, Homefront sets the bar for working with the FPS community to deliver a quality experience you’ll want to come back to,” added Como.
About Homefront
2027. A once proud America has fallen, her infrastructure shattered and military in disarray. Crippled by a devastating EMP strike the USA is powerless to resist the ever expanding occupation of a savage, nuclear armed Greater Korean Republic.
Abandoned by her former allies, the United States is a bleak landscape of walled towns and abandoned suburbs. This is a police state where high school stadiums have become detention centers, and shopping malls shelter armoured attack vehicles. A once-free people are now prisoners… or collaborators… or revolutionaries.
Join the Resistance, stand united and fight for freedom against an overwhelming military force in Homefront’s gripping single player campaign penned by John Milius (Apocalypse Now, Red Dawn). Stand alongside a cast of memorable characters as an emotional plot unfolds in this terrifyingly plausible near-future world. Experience visceral, cinematic first person shooter action as you fight your way across Occupied USA using guerrilla tactics, and commandeer military vehicles and advanced drone technology to defeat the enemy.
Multiplayer brings epic warfare to the online arena as infantry, tanks, attack helicopters and combat drones battle across huge, open battlefields. A rich feature set offering layers of tactical depth combined with game-changing innovations like Battle Points and Battle Commander set a new benchmark in online warfare.