25th March 2004, 3:45 PM
Quote:Famitsu reports that Chunsoft's Japanese RPG entitled Homeland will have online play. The game will be sold as two discs, one is for offline and the other for networked use. However, it isn't the kind of online gaming that you might envision. Players don't connect to an outside server. The GameCube itself becomes the server and players then can connect to it. The one who is hosting can't play normally, but instead has some controls over the game. It doesn't cost anything and the homebrewed server will be able to hold up to 30 people.
It's definitely an interesting idea.
N-Philes
Sometimes you get the scorpion.