{"id":881,"date":"2014-12-16T17:40:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T01:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=881"},"modified":"2014-12-16T17:40:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T01:40:51","slug":"microsoft-launches-xbox-live-servers-in-australia-to-speed-up-online-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=881","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft launches Xbox Live servers in Australia to speed up online gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced that it\u2019s putting local Xbox Live data centers in Australia and New Zealand so gamers can enjoy faster online gaming.<\/p>\n<p>The company said in a press release\u00a0that because it\u2019ll be hosting Xbox Live in Australian data centers, Xbox One players will enjoy faster connection speeds, centralized local hosting and improved reliability on \u201ccertain Xbox One games\u201d with further support coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>Xbox gamers in the southern hemisphere have previously needed to connect to overseas sources to get games and play online, so the news is great for those who have seen slow speeds and drop outs previously.<\/p>\n<p>The new servers are online as of today and support a small number of\u00a0games, including Titanfall, Forza Motorsport 5, Sunset Overdrive, Halo Master Chief Collection and Forza Horizon 2 at launch.<\/p>\n<p>Source- <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/microsoft\/2014\/12\/17\/microsoft-launches-xbox-live-servers-australia-speed-online-gaming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Next Web<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced that it\u2019s putting local Xbox Live data centers in Australia and New Zealand so gamers can enjoy faster online gaming. The company said in a press release\u00a0that because it\u2019ll be hosting Xbox Live in Australian data centers, Xbox One players will enjoy faster connection speeds, centralized local hosting and improved reliability on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-microsoft","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}