GameSpy Details Open Initiative, New Tools Pricing

"GameSpy Technology's VP Todd Northcutt is excited about the web's ability to enable everyone to aggregate and shape data to their needs. In response, he pushed his team to develop GameSpy Open, a new outgrowth of the matchmaking company's technology. It allows developers to mine for data in their own titles and the community for the games to harness that data how they see fit, via GameSpy's APIs....[Quoting Todd Northcutt:] Our vision for GameSpy Open is to empower all games to become more social through open data access....We want to put the wealth of amazing data that games can generate back into the hands of the community. They have seemingly infinite time and energy and are able to do so much more with open access to this data than either we or the developer can, given fixed resources...."