Gaming World has moved house, and the new place is a lot bigger

On 21 October the whole site packed up in Finland and moved to a far more powerful machine in New Jersey. It took about two minutes, and most of you are now a lot closer to us.

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We moved. On 21 October the whole of Gaming World, the site, the API behind it, the forums, every review and every preview, packed its bags in Helsinki, Finland and set up home in New Jersey, USA. If you blinked you missed it: the site was down for about two minutes, and then it was back on the new machine as if nothing had happened.

A much bigger house

The new server is in a different league from the old one. It has four times the processor cores and six times the memory. The old box did a good job for us, but it was starting to feel cramped, and this is the kind of upgrade that changes how the whole site feels. Pages come back faster, searches come back faster, and there is a huge amount of room left over for whatever we build next.

Closer to most of you

The move across the Atlantic was not an accident. Most of the people who read Gaming World are in North America, and until this week every page they opened had to make the trip to Finland and back. Now the site, the search and the API sit on the same side of the ocean as most of our readers. That means snappier page loads, quicker responses when you post or vote, and a site that should keep up as more people find it.

What you need to do

Nothing at all. Your account, your comments, your votes and everything you have written are exactly where you left them. Same address, same logins. If anything does look wrong to you, a broken page, a missing picture, a button that does nothing, tell us and we will fix it. Thank you to everyone who has been reading, writing and sending us games while we grew out of the old place.

The Gaming World Discord came along for the move too. Come and say hello at discord.gg/PNFqAgVkxu.

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