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A large multiplayer experiment put 100 people on a single game server with nuclear weapons enabled, and it drew close to a million engagements. Viewers are reacting to the chaos that follows when dozens of players gain access to devastating firepower at once, with many debating how quickly the server would descend into all-out destruction.
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EA's classic 2005 shooter Battlefield 2 is being released as open source, according to reports circulating among gaming communities. The move would let fans freely access, modify and preserve the code of the landmark multiplayer title. Players are discussing what this means for community-made mods, private servers and long-term preservation of a game that shaped large-scale online warfare shooters.