Minecraft's multiplayer is one of the factors that has helped the game maintain its popularity for so long. Jumping into a survival world with friends and going on adventures or killing an afternoon ...

Competitive pressure from open-source software is threatening to redraw the Java application server landscape, just as it has shaken up the operating systems realm. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

It's not an option I would recommend too much in the long run, because to play, that person will have to be connected and with the server running at all times. In other words, every time you want to ...