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Defunct
  
May 31, 2014

Ceased operations
  
May 31, 2014

Headquarters
  
Costa Mesa, San Francisco

Founded
  
30 April 1997

Parent organization
  
Glu Mobile

Former type
  
Subsidiary of Glu Mobile Inc.

Industry
  
Computer and video game industryGame MiddlewareGame development tool

Key people
  
Todd Northcutt (Division Vice President)

Website
  
www.GameSpyTechnology.com at the Wayback Machine (archived July 22, 2014)

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GameSpy Technology (also known as GameSpy Industries, Inc.), a division of Glu Mobile, was the developer of the GameSpy Technology product, a suite of middleware tools, software, and services for use in the computer and video game industry.

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Technology

GameSpy Technology consisted of an array of portable C SDKs that plug into hosted web services that provided the following functionality:

  • Game advertising and player matchmaking
  • Player and team scores and statistics gathering, arbitration, ranking, rules processing, and leaderboards
  • Arbitrary game data storage and retrieval for files to atomic data
  • Team, guild, and clan services and management
  • NAT Negotiation
  • In-game purchases and downloadable content
  • Presence, authentication, game invites, and instant messaging
  • Player chat rooms
  • CD key authentication
  • Voice communication
  • HTTP, XML, and socket data transport

    • Supported platforms

  • Microsoft Windows
  • Mac OS
  • PlayStation 3
  • PlayStation Portable
  • Nintendo Wii
  • Nintendo DS
  • Nintendo DSi
  • Linux
  • iPhone

    • Integrated Technology Partners

    Game Engines

  • Unreal Engine 3

    • References

    GameSpy Technology Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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