With its connected gaming technology already integrated into hit titles like Red Dead Redemption, Mario Kart Wii and Crysis, GameSpy is turning its sights to the independent game community.
The company has announced the GameSpy Open initiative, which will make its entire catalog of multiplatform online game technology available free of charge to small development studios. That will allow burgeoning game makers to offer services including cross-platform multiplayer, leaderboards, cloud data storage and community services (such as buddy lists and matchmaking).
After the recent announcement that Gamespy would no longer support hundreds of multiplayer games, a BF2 mod and a security analyst came together to create their own version of Gamespy that's open source for anyone.
From The Podcast...
"On this episode of The Podcast the Xbox One get dis-kinected as Microsoft has finally announced a Kinectless SKU at $100 less.
Gamespy is shutting its doors which means that gamers will lose access to more than a few classic multiplayer environments like the majority of the Battlefield series.
Sony’s E3 announcements have possibly leaked out on NeoGaf, and the boys dissect whether this could possibly come to pass.
Finally, the topic turns to the first image of Batfleck that’s been making the rounds, fake veins and all."
May 31st marks the end of an era as the GameSpy servers, the network behind countless multiplayer titles, is closing it’s virtual doors. Hundreds of titles across multiple platforms will be affected by the shutdown, some temporarily as multiplayer services are transferred to other services, while others will be shut down permanently.
