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Kevill intends to spend the rest of the month trying to get as many affected games on board as possible before the 31st May deadline. GameSpy servers were used in everything from indie titles such as And Yet It Moves to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of Rockstar blockbusters Red Dead Redemption and GTA4. It's now out of date - many have already been moved to new hosting in preparation for GameSpy's shutdown - but it stands as testament to the wide-range of games the company once served.

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The full list of titles powered by GameSpy servers runs into the hundreds. 'I spend all my waking hours on GameRanger, supporting games that probably no one ever plays, but someone might want to return to one day.' 'The size of the player base shouldn't matter if you just want to play a friend or two. 'Even if someone isn't a regular player anymore, it's understandable that they'd be upset that they can't someday go back an re-live an experience even if they wanted to.

'These games need to live on forever, they are a part of history,' he said. Games soon to be supported by GameRanger include 1C Publishing's Men of War: Vietnam and Men of War: Condemned Heroes. 'I've been talking with a few companies that have been very helpful in supplying any info I need to make it easier to keep their games going.' 'Things have been a little crazy over the last few weeks, and trying to prioritise which ones are supported first is challenging,' he said. Kevill, from Perth, Australia, said he is working his way through the long list of games affected by the GameSpy shutdown. 'Sometimes the original development teams have dissolved and so on.' 'They're generally very thankful because often these situations are not in their control,' he said. It's the work of programmer Scott Kevill, who told Eurogamer publishers have already been in touch. It lets users host and join multiplayer games, bypassing router and firewall problems sometimes encountered in games. GameRanger is a primarily ad-supported multiplayer lobby service that works across multiple games. It recently added the Halo 1 series of games (Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo: Combat Evolved Demo and Halo: Custom Edition) to its service, and Battlefront 2 is already simulated with GameSpy disconnected and cut-off. GameRanger, however, is picking up the slack. While many publishers have promised multiplayer will continue in their games following the shutdown on 31st May, some have not, including Star Wars Battlefront 2 and Halo 1 on PC.

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PC online multiplayer service GameRanger is battling to keep multiplayer alive in a number of games affected by the upcoming GameSpy server shutdown.