You forgot the ??? step.

Ahh, Mattintosh! Good times. :)

I'm the developer of GameRanger, a PC/Mac multiplayer online gaming service supporting over 600 games that has been running since 1999. Not very well known due to being Mac-only until late 2008, but just hit 5 million registered members last month mostly from word of mouth. Many of these games are ex-GameSpy or already had their existing services shut down long ago.

I've been trying to reach out to any affected developers and publishers, as I'm well-positioned to be able to help out. My only interest is in keeping these games alive, no matter how small the player base is. I'm not sure if I can help with the console games; that may depend on Glu (I've reached out to them as well).

Not sure anyone will see this as it's nearly a week later. I've just added support for Sniper Elite on GameRanger, so it can be played online again easily. More rescues are still to come...

Thanks for the kind words. Just enabled Sniper Elite today, and more are still to come.

Rodents of Hunusual Size. I don't believe they exist.

Success! Just added support for GRID on GameRanger. This won't help the unfortunate PS3 souls, but will at least help out the PC players.

I need to look into this further, but I may be able to provide a solution. GameRanger has "rescued" many other orphaned multiplayer PC games in the past.

Damnit, no! This is going to mean they'll wrap up House M.D. :(

The Land Shark Gun from the game, Armed and Dangerous.

http://xkcd.com/662/

That won't help their business. They need a sucker dying every minute.

Whoooosh! (And you also missed the other intentional misspelling.)

"And then they came for me."

You raise a valid point, though Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II and nearly all of the MSN Zone games can still be played online through GameRanger (see the list). You'd be amazed at how many games of Age of Empires II are being played each day -- it puts many recent games to shame.