Online-gaming service provider GameSpy Industries acknowledged this week that it had sent an Italian hacker a cease-and-desist letter requesting that he remove advisories and utilities that highlight ...

It appears that yet another popular website will be closing its doors forever due to "business issues." Gamespy.com has just announced that it will be shutting down its website along with all of its ...

The GameSpy server shutdown at the end of this month continues to loom over (mostly older) PC games, but we can add another game to the safe list. The original Halo: Combat Evolved will be playable ...

GameSpy is shutting down on May 31, and the Internet is furious. See, there’s this list floating around of all the multiplayer PC games that will be rendered unplayable by the imminent demise of this ...

Today, multiplayer gaming is easy. You hop onto a game, press "play online," and in moments, you're in an arena playing with people all over the world. Sometimes the game matches players with the same ...

When GameSpy Technology---which hosted games such as Crysis, Battlefield 1942, and the original Halo---shut down its servers at the end of May, it left a bevy of games and gamers stranded offline. But ...

GameSpy began in 1996 as a fan-hosted server for the original Quake. By the early 2000s, GameSpy was the online multiplayer platform, adding dozens of games every year. More than 800 games have used ...

UPDATE #4 22/04/2014: 2K will be migrating the PC versions of Borderlands, Civilization 3 and Civilization 4 - along with their expansions - to Steamworks following GameSpy's multiplayer server ...

Alas, today we had to say goodbye to friends and co-workers, as well as begin the process of bidding a fond farewell to both 1UP and GameSpy. Why? Given the state of the market and the economy, it ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Like a lot of you (I'm guessing), I've never even tried the multiplayer modes in the terrific ...

Computer game developer Firaxis Games Inc. had already sold millions of copies of its Civilization series when the Baltimore area company decided it needed a new wrinkle. The game, which lets players ...