GameSpy
GameSpy was a collection of software that in the area of Multiplayer - computer games was used. GameSpy was also an online PC and video game magazine. It was distributed by GameSpy Industries, as part of the IGN network.
Company history
The company was founded in 1997 in San Francisco. In March 2004, IGN , the operator of the online games magazine of the same name, took over the company for around 55 million US dollars and integrated it into its website network. Since 2005 Gamespy has been part of the News Corporation together with IGN . In 2012, IGN sold the technology division to Glu Mobile for around $ 2.8 million. The online magazine remained part of the IGN network. In February 2013, the media group Ziff Davis finally took over the IGN Network from News Corp. The new owner decided to focus on the core brands IGN and AskMen. As part of the realignment, the network sites GameSpy, UGO Entertainment and 1UP were therefore closed. At the end of May 2014, the multiplayer service was also completely discontinued.
function
The user selected the computer game he wanted to play from a list , and the program then loaded a list of game servers from a GameSpy master server. The program interrogated the game servers one after the other in order to determine the number of players and further server information and the latency (see ping ).
Another functionality was the automatic patching of installed games.
Components
The GameSpy software consisted of:
- GameSpy Arcade - Server Search Engine ( Server Browser )
- GameSpy 3D - Server Search Engine ( Server Browser )
- Roger Wilco - Voice Chat Tool
GameSpy Arcade
GameSpy Arcade was the main part of the software collection and supported first-person shooters , role-playing games and strategy games . In addition, it offered chat channels and board games such as chess or Monopoly for each game , the latter being played in the program itself. There was a free trial version and a paid version for purchase.
Supported games (selection)
- Age-o-Empires series / Age of Mythology
- America's Army
- Anno 1503
- ArmA 2
- ArmA 3
- Armada 2
- Baldur's Gate series
- Battle Realms
- Battlefield series
- flash war
- Borderlands
- Call of Duty
- Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
- Command & Conquer: Renegade
- Counter-Strike
- Crysis
- Doom 3
- DTM Race Driver 3
- Empire Earth 2
- Empire Earth 3
- Fallout Tactics
- Flight Simulator X
- Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
- Giants: Citizen Kabuto
- Gotcha!
- Half-life
- Halo: fight for the future
- The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth
- The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth 2
- The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth 2 - The Rise of the Witch King
- Heroes of Might & Magic 4
- Homeworld 2
- Knights of Honor
- NASCAR Thunder 2003
- NASCAR Thunder 2004
- Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2
- Neverwinter Nights
- No-One-Lives-Forever series
- Painkiller
- ParaWorld
- Quake II / Quake III Arena
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein / Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
- Rome: Total War
- Rush for Berlin
- SWAT 4
- SWINE
- Saints Row 2
- Sid Meier's Civilization II, III and IV
- STALKER
- Star Wars: Battlefront
- Stronghold / Stronghold Crusader / Stronghold Legends
- Test Drive Unlimited
- Unreal and Unreal Tournament series
- Vietcong 2
GameSpy 3D
GameSpy 3D almost exclusively supported first-person shooters (see below) and was a stripped-down version of GameSpy Arcade. There was also a free trial version and a paid version for purchase.
Games supported
- Aliens vs. Predator 2
- America's Army: Operations
- Baldur's Gate 2
- Battlestations Midway
- Battlefield 1942
- Battlezone II
- Blood (computer game)
- Chaser
- Code name: Eagle
- Command & Conquer: Renegade
- Daikatana
- Deer Hunter 4
- Descent 3
- Drakan
- Elite Force
- Global Operations
- Half-life
- Heretic 2
- Witches 2
- Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
- Kingpin: Life of Crime
- KISS Psycho Circus
- Medal of Honor
- No One Lives Forever
- Operation Flashpoint
- Quake
- Quake II
- Quake III: Team Arena
- Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein
- rune
- Serious Sam
- Serious Sam 2nd Encounter
- Shogo: Mobile Armor Division
- SiN
- Soldier of Fortune
- SWAT 4
- The Wheel of Time
- Tribes
- Tribes 2
- Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
- Unreal
- Unreal Tournament
Almost all of the data traffic for the online services of the Wii and Nintendo DS was handled via GameSpy servers, which ultimately led to the early shutdown of these services.
More server search engines
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2005-09-10/news-corp-dot-acquires-ign-for-650-million
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2012/08/02/glu-mobile-loses-3m-buys-gamespy-for.html
- ↑ http://kotaku.com/5986027/ziff-davis-shuts-1up-gamespy-and-ugo
- ↑ http://www.golem.de/news/glu-mobile-multiplayerdienst-gamespy-wird-eingetzt-1404-105619.html
- ↑ Source: http://www.gamespy3d.com/
- ↑ http://wiiki.wii-homebrew.com/Wiimmfi