GameRanger is software for the

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created by

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n developer Scott Kevill, which provides

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for

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s, as well as social features such as text

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s and

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. It was first released for the Macintosh in July 1999 and was given the "Best Internet Gaming Achievement" by

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Magazine. Windows support was added in 2008 and it currently supports over 700 titles.

Overview

The software and service is maintained and managed by Scott Kevill. In addition to acting as a metaserver and browser for servers, lobbies, ranking, statistics, and invitations, the service also acts as a chat platform. Gameranger evolved from Kevill's prior experience writing ''QuakeFinder'' and ''UnrealFinder'', Mac exclusive server browsers for '' Quake'' and ''

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'' respectively, as well as other tools such as his ''Quiver''

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for ''Quake''. After

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went offline, GameRanger announced that it would support games supported by GameSpy, eased by GameRanger's preexisting ability to interface with GameSpy's servers during their years of operation.

List of supported games

References

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Overview

List of supported games

See also

References