GameSpy Sold?
This has not been confirmed and just could be a holiday rumor.
Unless the whole thing is a well thought out hoax, rumours have sprung up on the Internet indicating the GameSPy have been sold to an anonymous buyer for US$60 million, with GameSPy president Mark “Bastard” Surfas (that’s his nickname, not an epithet) pocketing a cool US$20 million for his trouble.
No convinced? Well, we weren’t either when our friendly neighbourhood rumourmonger D33 pointed us at his post on trickery.net, however the source of this post, a comment by Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka (ex PlanetQuake and creator of the infamous JeffK) on the Something Awful forums seems to bear out this rumour:
Thought some of you might be curious to know that Mark Surfas sold Gamespy for $60 million and is personally pocketing $20 million himself. I wasn’t told who bought them out, so I don’t know. Since they haven’t released any “official” press release yet, I guess it’s still technically a “rumor” and isn’t confirmed / proven true yet, but I’m assuming there will be some announcement sometime soon.
Current frontrunners on the forums for potential purchasers are C|Net and Microsoft - however these two are almost always the usual suspects when it comes to rumours like this.
