Those worried that Frontlines’ epic 50-player online wars would wreak havoc and destruction on Xbox Live can worry no more. In celebration if its recent launch, THQ has set up 90 dedicated servers for the game’s online play.

Unfortunately, only one map currently supports 50 players, but THQ has said that there is a possibility of more maps in the future that will allow massive wars.

Frontlines: Fuel of War was released on Monday, February 25th, and should have hit most retailers yesterday.

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Those who were somewhat unimpressed with the demo for Kaos Studios’ new action title Frontlines: Fuel of War may be interested to hear that the game’s online multiplayer will support up to 50 players.

The Xbox Live multiplayer demo supports 32 players right now, but 50 is a pretty big leap. A developer on the official forums stated that they actually reached 73 players when testing, but they are “taking baby steps” right now.

With all of the stellar first-person shooters available right now, I wasn’t very taken with Frontlines. However, now I feel like I at least have to try the full title when it hits.

Frontlines: Fuel of War hits Xbox 360 and PC on February 25th, 2008.

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According to the folks over at the Angry Pixel, their source at Microsoft informs them that the upcoming Halo RTS, Halo Wars, will make its way to PC as well as Xbox 360 and feature cross-platform play via Microsoft’s Games for Windows – LIVE.

Not many games currently support cross-platform play, with Shadowrun and Universe at War: Earth Assault being two of them.

While this is good news for PC owners who don’t own an Xbox 360, I can’t imagine that playing an RTS on your 360 against an opponent on a PC would be very fair at all. Even though Ensemble Studios, the developers behind Halo Wars, have stated that they’ve worked out the kinks in controlling an RTS on a console, I can’t imagine that it’s anywhere near as fluid or as easy as using a keyboard and mouse.

UPDATE: When asked about a PC version of Halo Wars, a Microsoft Rep told IGN this:

“Halo Wars is being developed from the bottom up for the Xbox 360 and its control scheme to ensure that we deliver a groundbreaking console RTS experience. Given that, we have no plans to develop ‘Halo Wars’ for Windows Vista at this time.”