GameSpy and Codemasters announce 18-Month Strategic Technology and Services Partnership
Under the agreement, Codemasters will incorporate GameSpy's solutions into select titles that feature online game play, including IGI 2: Covert Strike and Pro Race Driver. In addition, GameSpy will manage the back-end services for Codemasters online games for these titles, providing server, bandwidth and reporting support.
"GameSpy's services provide us with easy-to-use solutions to dealing with bandwidth and other potential online headaches," notes David Solari, US Senior Marketing Manager for Codemasters. "By outsourcing these tasks to GameSpy's experts, we can focus our energy on making the best possible games."
"GameSpy offers companies like Codemasters cost-effective solutions to real world problems," notes Mark Surfas, chief executive officer of GameSpy Industries. "GameSpy.net's suite of services can relieve game developers of typical hassles, freeing them up to work on the game play and other vital issues essential to a game."
GameSpy.net offers game developers and publishers four distinct toolkits that easily integrate with a game to provide Matchmaking, Community Building, Administrative and Networking functionalities.
The GameSpy.net back-end infrastructure supports these functions for hundreds of thousands of players across hundreds of games across multiple platforms. GameSpy.net also offers consulting, custom development, file serving, and server hosting services to its technology customers. GameSpy.net customers include such leading game publishers as Electronic Arts, Activision, Infogrames, Take 2 Interactive, CDV, and Dreamcatcher Interactive.
About Codemasters
Codemasters is a leading developer and publisher of best-selling interactive entertainment products for a global audience on current and future gaming platforms and channels. Established in 1986, the company's dominant brands include Colin McRae Rally, TOCA, LMA Manager, and Operation Flashpoint. The company is headquartered in Southam, Warwickshire UK and maintains European operations in Germany, France, Spain, and Benelux. The company has its US headquarters in New York and maintains an online gaming facility in Oakhurst, CA. More information about the company and its products is available online at www.codemasters.com
About GameSpy Industries
GameSpy Industries is a leading content and technology company targeted at the gaming and entertainment industries. Its GameSpy Network of web sites, including GameSpy.com and FilePlanet.com, reaches the largest audience of hard-core gamers available on the Internet, according to all the leading Internet measurement firms including Media Metrix and comScore. GameSpy is also the publisher of GameSpy Arcade, GameSpy 3D and Roger Wilco!, leading software products that enable multi-player gaming for millions of gamers worldwide. GameSpy also develops and licenses technology products and services which are incorporated into hundreds of PC and console games, providing multi-player functionalities, security, data collection, and in-game advertising to most major game publishers. The privately held company, which was founded in 1995, is based in Irvine, Ca.
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