'CounterStrike' session sets record

Hardware maker Unisys announced Wednesday that its ES7000 server helped set a record for the most online game players ever hosted on a single server. The feat occurred last week at DreamHack 2004, a major computer conference in Sweden.

Game enthusiasts at the conference set up a session of the popular shooting game "CounterStrike" with 1,160 simultaneous players hosted on a single Unisys server, equipped with 32 Intel Xeon 2.2GHz processors and 32GB of memory. The Guinness World of Records recognized the session as a world record earlier this week.

1,160 people?

How can you have that many people in the same game? Aside from the fact that that many people would leave NO room to move on a map, counter-strike only allows 32 people to be in a game at once.

[Dachi]

Possible answer.

They probably had several IP's configured on the server and binded the CS servers to them. I am sure not all the CS servers out there are on their own dedicated hardware just to let 15 or 20 people play a game against each other.