DemonWare Launches Matchmaking+ at GDC, Hires U.S. Sales Director

According to Irish-headquartered middleware company DemonWare, its new Matchmaking+ product will make its full international debut at GDC 2005 in San Francisco from March 7th-11th. DemonWare Matchmaking+ provides a complete range of toolkits for console, PC, and handheld online games including statistics, user management and, of course, matchmaking. It forms a key component of the DemonWare Netcode Suite of multiplayer tools. The major features of DemonWare's Matchmaking+ include:

• matchmaking
• friends/user management
• statistics
• content download
• competitions
• cross-platform (supports PS2, PSP, PC, and compatible with Xbox and selected next-generation designs)
• compatible with in-house network technology and game engines
• developer friendly C++ APIs
• supports DemonWare State Engine
• full voice support
• encryption

In other DemonWare news, the networking middleware provider announced the appointment of Art Santos as U.S. Director of Sales, where he will head up all commercial development activities for that key region. He will be based in the DemonWare LA office. Santos joins from IGN GameSpy, where he was part of the team which launched GameSpy's middleware program. Prior to GameSpy, Santos was an account manager with leading distributor, Ingram Micro.