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FYI, there's 2 parts to the GameSpy brand. IGN sold the technology group, behind in-game online middleware used by over 1,000 games (including BF 1942 e.g.) to

• Lockyy 14y ago
  This is what I was looking for. Was wondering what implications this had for the games that relied on Gamespy for multiplayer. Would have been a shame if games like Crysis Wars that still has nice multiplayer community was also closed because the Gamespy client had been shutdown.
• jonheller 14y ago
  Interesting, thanks. I didn't realize they were two separate entities. I remember Gamespy as being one of the first software options to easily facilitate multiplayer gaming back before it was baked in to most games.
  • jschuur 14y ago
    GameSpy, the standalone server browsing client of the early 2000s which evolved from the Quake specific QuakeSpy was originally a third party developed app by 3 programmers and brought in-house by company behind the 'Planet' brand of community web sites. Eventually, the newly renamed GameSpy Industries created in-game solutions to provide server browsing and more as middleware and hosted the backend services used by these games. GLU Mobile inherited that backend for legacy games still using it, and now need to figure out how to license it out (or collect pending licensing fees from games that have been out for 5-8 years).