MS says their beta testers were impressed enough with its stability and reliability though so it was decided it was good enough for now. Steve Gibson DigitalExtremes has announced their new project, a massive multiplayer persistant universe action game. Basically a combo of EverQuest and Unreal Tournament. The game title is Dark Sector. Tournament style gameplay into a massively multiplayer persistent universe.
Players carve out their destiny in a violent struggle for fortune and fame.
Begin your career as a bounty hunter tracking your target from Mars to the moons of Jupiter and then face off in an ice mine on Europa. DigitalExtremes is of course responsible for a lot of the work that went into UT along with Epic Games. Sounds pretty damn exciting. PowerPlay is an initiative started by Valve and Cisco to improve connections and ping times so that multiplayer games will be more fun for more people. No announcements on ISP pricing or technological details have been made though.