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| GameSpy Upgrades ATLAS Game Competition System IGN Entertainment's GameSpy has announced a major upgrade to its ATLAS game competition technology. Announced at last year's Game Developers Conference, ATLAS has been well-received by publishers and developers, having powered statistical tracking and competition for best-selling titles like Command & Conquer 3, Unreal Tournament 3 and Crysis. ATLAS is the videogame industry's only one-stop-shop for publishers and developers to easily create advanced statistical systems for use in tournaments and competition both in-game and on the Web. The new, upgraded ATLAS technology suite includes: · Track Thousands of Statistics: Dramatically expands the number of statistics that can be tracked per player, allowing developers to track thousands of statistics for every gamer. Designed for maximum flexibility, ATLAS statistics can be used to enhance the player experience, as well as to guide future development. · Web Publishing: Publish real-time gameplay stats directly to a game's Web site or in game applications through the ATLAS API. · Revamped Leaderboards: New leaderboard functionality makes rankings easier to user for gamers and simpler to create for developers. · GameSpy Arena Re-launch: Redesigned GameSpy Arena 2.0 provides developers and publishers with a turnkey Web-based solution for hosting stats, competition and communities. GameSpy has also announced a new Teams SDK, which will be available immediately as part of GameSpy's overall technology offering. The Teams technology will enable gamers to create, manage and join teams through both in-game applications and integrated Web sites. The new Teams SDK also allows developers to build social applications, providing their users the tools and support to organize themselves into clans or teams. Over the past twelve months, GameSpy's ATLAS system has been a critical component in providing publishers and developers compelling competition packages to AAA titles. Among those videogame titles utilizing ATLAS are Unreal Tournament 3, Command & Conquer 3, Empire Earth III and Crysis. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Game News :: home page |