GameSpy will pull the plug on the master servers on May 31

The GameSpy Master servers will shut down on May 31. The servers, which mainly provide lobbies, matchmaking and leaderboards, support older games. Some of those games will migrate to other services, and other games will no longer work online.

GameSpy reports the news on its own website. Some well-known titles that still use GameSpy’s servers include the Arma games, Red Dead Redemption, Borderlands, Stalker: Call of Pripyat, Halo on PC, and Saints Row 2. Newer games don’t use the GameSpy servers, as parent company Glu Mobile has not added any new games to the GameSpy services since January of 2013.

It is still unclear which games will be transferred to other internet infrastructures and which games will soon have to contend with an online component that no longer works. The latter seems inevitable for some games: for older titles that are rarely played, it is not financially attractive to invest in the migration to another online service. With this announcement, the last piece of the gaming service will disappear from the web. GameSpy has been around since the late 90s.