Red Alert 3

Hello, Commanders & Conquerors!

On Wednesday, August 25 at 22:00 Pacific Daylight Time (5:00 GMT on Thursday, August 26) all GameSpy services will be shut down for a period of six hours. What that means is that you will have varying degrees of service outages from no online play at all to the ladders not working. No worries, if you get a match during this time the games will report, but they will be delayed.

This from ign.com:

After many months of hard work the GameSpy team is happy to announce our move to the new data center is finally upon us, which will eventually provide a host of benefits we've been alluding to in newsletters.

We expect to begin the switch over process during our normal maintenance window on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 at 22:00 (10pm) Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).

The data center move will result in the outage of all GameSpy Tech services for a period of time.

We expect this outage will last approximately six (6) hours, during which time all games on the GameSpy Service that have properly implemented the availability check will receive a "Service Temporarily Unavailable" response.

Should you have any questions, please join the conversation on the GameSpy Service Outage.