GameSpy and Vivendi Universal Games Announce Two-Year Strategic Technology and Services Partnership
"Vivendi Universal Games is pleased to be util izing the GameSpy solution for bringing its games to the online community," said Kelly Zmak, Vice President of Development. "Outsourcing this process allows us to focus on the craft of making games, something our gaming users will appreciate when they see our latest advances on that front."
"GameSpy provides Vivendi Universal Games with a time-saving, cost-effective solution for putting our games online," noted Jim Wilson, Executive Vice President of Development, VU Games. "Their long-standing history as a leading enabler of online gaming and their attractive business models make this relationship the right strategy for VU Games as we take more of our PC and console titles online."
"GameSpy is excited to offer our services to VU Games and look forward to a long-term relationship," noted Mark Surfas of GameSpy Industries. "GameSpy.net's suite of services offers strong value to developers and publishers when considering the real-world hurdles they face when bringing games online."
GameSpy.net offers game developers and publishers multiple 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, Microsoft, Infogrames, Take 2 Interactive, CDV, and Dreamcatcher Interactive.
About Vivendi Universal Games
Headquartered in New York, Vivendi Universal Games (http://www.vugames.com) is a global leader in multi-platform interactive entertainment. A leading publisher of PC, console and online-based interactive content, Vivendi Universal Games' portfolio of development studios includes Black Label Games, Blizzard Entertainment, Coktel, Knowledge Adventure, NDA Productions, Sierra Entertainment and Universal Interactive. Through its Partner Publishing Group, Vivendi Universal Games also co-publishes and/or distributes interactive products for a number of strategic partners, including Bits Software, Crave Entertainment, Fox Interactive, Interplay, Majesco, Mythic Entertainment and Simon & Schuster, among others.
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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