Perth, Western Australia — March 19, 2009 — GameRanger, the PC\u00a0
\nmultiplayer online gaming service, added improvements to give games a\u00a0
\nlonger multiplayer life. Rather than waiting around for a multiplayer\u00a0
\ngame, people are now immediately notified the moment anyone wants to\u00a0
\nplay a game of theirs that interests them.<\/p>\n
GameRanger’s new notifications mean that people can be always ready\u00a0
\nfor a game even while\u00a0 occupied with other PC activities by simply\u00a0
\nhaving the GameRanger icon in the system tray. This increases the pool\u00a0
\nof available players for all games at all times. Once people have\u00a0
\ndecided they want to play, GameRanger handles the rest so they have no\u00a0
\nneed to worry about the usual headaches of network issues or\u00a0
\nconnection problems.<\/p>\n
Most multiplayer games have a spike of activity just after release and\u00a0
\nthen trail off, making it increasingly harder to find others to play\u00a0
\nagainst. Some games never even reach the levels needed for their built-
\nin lobbies and auto-matching in the first place. Potential players end\u00a0
\nup quitting out of frustration or boredom before they find a match,\u00a0
\nperpetuating the problem, because they can’t do anything else while\u00a0
\nthey wait.<\/p>\n
“Although digital distribution has increased the shelf-life of PC\u00a0
\ngames, little has been done to boost their multiplayer shelf-life and\u00a0
\ndwindling online-gaming communities,” observed Scott Kevill, president\u00a0
\nof GameRanger Technologies. “Now with GameRanger, the Long Tail\u00a0
\ndoesn’t need to be a Lonely Tale.”<\/p>\n