Stormgate Multiplayer to End in April After Provider Acquisition

Frost Giant Studios announced that its real-time strategy game Stormgate will lose online multiplayer functionality at the end of April, following the acquisition of the game's server provider by an AI company. The developer, composed of former Blizzard Entertainment designers from Warcraft III and StarCraft II, shared the news on March 31 via the game's official Discord server. Based in the United States, Frost Giant plans to release an offline patch to preserve single-player and local modes, but competitive online features essential to the game's community will cease without a new hosting partner.

The disruption stems from Hathora, Stormgate's server orchestration provider, being purchased by Fireworks AI. Hathora informed clients in March that it would discontinue game services within 90 days to focus on AI inference and low-latency compute operations. "Our game server orchestration partner, Hathora, has been purchased by an AI company, and they are winding down their service at the end of April," Frost Giant stated in the Discord update. "This will create a planned outage for Stormgate's multiplayer modes. Stormgate will be patched so that it can be played offline, but...