Horizons: New Horizons Media on Gamespot

Gamespot has been feeding the pre-release launch over the past week with a few new items for you to take a look at.

The first is a brand new Q&A with everyone's favorite developers, David Bowman (DB) and Steve Snow (SS). In it, they discuss the various elements that are going into the launch effort for Horizons:

[i]GS: What has the team done to prepare for launch day to make sure that Horizons debuts in as stable and problem-free a state as possible?

DB: We've done many stress tests throughout the beta to allow us to optimize our systems for high levels of player load. Our website allows players to see the current load on all worlds. We created a queuing system that allows players to know where they are in the queue (which we anticipate will occur for launch and first weekend) for entry into the world. We have hardware and bandwidth standing by to allow us to quickly respond to high demand. I'm certain that there will be some unforeseen issues, since there usually are, but we've gone through all of the scenarios from previous launches and feel we are as ready as can be possible for the load.

SS: Testing, testing, and more testing. We have been trying to break our own systems since January now. We are not dumb enough to think we broke and fixed everything, but we have gotten enough of the issues out of the way that our customer support team can help out future consumers with any issues that may come up.

[/i]The entire reading is located here.

Finally, Gamespot has released its final trailer in the ongoing series of pre-release videos. You can find this trailer on Gamespot's Horizons Media page, and it is well worth it for you to watch! You will have to be a registered member of Gamespot to download the video, but fear not, registration is totally free with no strings attached.