Patrick Healey of Boise, Idaho (foreground) frags his colleague inside a hacked version of Quake 3. Microsoft Research's distributed systems and security group has developed a P2P gaming scheme called Donnybrook that distributes character movement and location information more efficiently. Players can engage in massive multiplayer battles with dozens of friends all at once without encountering slow rendering problems. By working around a residential broadband connection's inherent limitations, Microsoft's Jay Lorch says his team's software can "make games way more epic."
