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GameSpy, also known as GameSpy Industries, is a division of IGN Entertainment, which operates a network of game Web sites and provides online video game-related services and software. GameSpy dates back to the 1996 release of an internet Quake server search program named QSpy. The current company is headquartered in Irvine, California. It is currently controlled by News Corporation, the 92.3% shareholder of its parent company, IGN - which was bought for $650 million on September 8, 2005. GameSpy includes coverage for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PSP, Xbox, Xbox 360, Nintendo GameCube, Wii, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, N-Gage, Wireless, PC, and Retrogaming.

Origins

In 1996, Quake marked the beginning of the internet multiplayer real-time action game scene. However, finding a Quake server on the internet proved difficult. Gamers could only share IP addresses of known servers between themselves or post them on gaming websites. To solve this problem, a team of three programmers formed Spy Software (consisting of Jack "morbid" Mathews, Tim Cook, and Joe Powell) and created QSpy (or QuakeSpy). This allowed the listing and searching of Quake servers available across the internet.

Following the success of Quake, additional internet multiplayer-capable games were soon released. Spy Software rebranded QSpy to GameSpy, while adding functionality for newer titles. The name of the GameSpy software was later changed to GameSpy3D, during the commercialization of the grassroots software project.

The original QSpy program borrowed the "spy agent" theme from Microsoft's Spy++, a Windows development debugging tool. Spy++'s executable icon can be seen as the inspiration for the QSpy tool. The "spy agent" theme continues to the present day through the GameSpy logo and its network of websites.

According to the GameSpy3D website as of March 2006, the three original programmers still remain members of the core GameSpy3D programming team.

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