Good news for people who like older games! With the GameSpy service shutting down soon, many games are on the multiplayer chopping block.
2K announced yesterday that many Civilizations games and the original Borderlands will move to Steamworks. The following games will be switching on May 31.
Borderlands®
Civilization® III
Civilization® III: Conquests
Civilization® III: Play the World
Civilization® IV
Civilization® IV: Beyond the Sword
Civilization® IV: Colonization
Civilization® IV: Warlords
Unfortunately, Borderlands and Civilization: Revolution on PS3 used GameSpy, and will lose multiplayer support.
The full list of 2K games known to be affected by the shutdown are listed here:
http://support.2k.com/hc/en-us/articles/201967707-2K-Online-Server-Migration-from-GameSpy-Technology
And the blog post announcing the fixes:
https://blog.2k.com/index.php/home/single/2k-announces-online-service-changes-for-legacy-titles
2K announced yesterday that many Civilizations games and the original Borderlands will move to Steamworks. The following games will be switching on May 31.
Borderlands®
Civilization® III
Civilization® III: Conquests
Civilization® III: Play the World
Civilization® IV
Civilization® IV: Beyond the Sword
Civilization® IV: Colonization
Civilization® IV: Warlords
Unfortunately, Borderlands and Civilization: Revolution on PS3 used GameSpy, and will lose multiplayer support.
The full list of 2K games known to be affected by the shutdown are listed here:
http://support.2k.com/hc/en-us/articles/201967707-2K-Online-Server-Migration-from-GameSpy-Technology
And the blog post announcing the fixes:
https://blog.2k.com/index.php/home/single/2k-announces-online-service-changes-for-legacy-titles
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Happy to see 2K patching Borderlands and CIV to use Steamworks. Odd more companies didn't use Steamworks already as most games ship on Steam. That said, I guess when Civ III and Borderlands hit Steam wasn't the defacto PC standard as it is now.