GameSpy Technology

GameSpy Industries, Inc.

Former type	Subsidiary of Glu Mobile Inc.
Industry	Computer and video game industry Game Middleware Game development tool
Founded	Irvine, California (1997)
Defunct	May 31, 2014
Headquarters	Costa Mesa, California and San Francisco, California
Key people	Todd Northcutt (Division Vice President)
Parent	Glu Mobile Inc. (2012-present) IGN Entertainment, Inc. (2000-2012) Independent (1997-2000)
Website	GameSpy Technology's Official Site (Offline as of July 25, 2014)

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.

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^[1]
• Player and team scores and statistics gathering, arbitration, ranking, rules processing, and leaderboards^[2]
• Arbitrary game data storage and retrieval for files to atomic data^[3]
• Team, guild, and clan services and management
• NAT Negotiation
• In-game purchases and downloadable content
• Presence, authentication, game invites, and instant messaging^[4]
• 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

External links

• GameSpy Technology's Official Site

References