Who owns gamespy

They have ceased to do so since about or possibly longer. In , Quake is released, as one of the first 3D multiplayer action games to allow play over the internet. In , GameSpy receives angel investment funding from entrepreneur David Berkus. The company also releases MP3Spy.

GameSpy quickly reached profitability. GameSpy shuts down its RadioSpy division, backing away from an online music market dominated by peer-to-peer applications such as Napster and Gnutella.

GameSpy releases GameSpy Arcade. On July 30th, , The GameSpy Debriefings ended with an episode consisting of all of and only the main crew, who have since started up their own podcast The Comedy Button, without GameSpy. The new podcast will be similar in content to the GameSpy Debriefings. BSkyB Wikimedia Foundation. On the other hand, stand-alone mods are also free to set up their own hosting services. The Battlefield 2 mod Project Reality has already developed a replacement, while a solution for BF2 itself is still in the works.

To be fair, most of the games that used GameSpy's servers are old, to say the least Battlefield and Halo both have been around long enough to spawn 10th-anniversary collectors' editions, for examplebut that doesn't mean they shouldn't still be playable. Players feel its bad enough when they need a constant server connection in order to play a single-player game, but even worse if they'll be locked out if and when those servers, for whatever reason, go down.

An Activision representative told Polygon that the publisher's catalog will be unaffected by the shutdown. Epic has been "phasing out" GameSpy for its Unreal series of first-person shooters, said a spokesperson, adding, "We're spinning [up an in-house solution] next week and we don't foresee any impact. That said, direct IP connection to servers should work even after GameSpy services are no longer available.

We've reached out to Glu Mobile and all the companies involved to find out what will happen to GameSpy-based games after May 31, and what the publishers' plans are for those titles. We'll update this article with any responses we receive. Update: "There are a few titles for which Capcom utilizes GameSpy's matchmaking services for online gameplay.

It's been fantastic. Just to be clear, we're not being shut down because PC gaming isn't a big, important, and growing thing -- because it is. That's not even debatable. It's not even because the GameSpy staff did a bad job of talking about it. Why is this closure happening, then?