The last week seems to have brought a lot of game developers out of their trance as far as the question of what will happen to the multiplayer servers of many games after Gamespy is shut down on the 31^st of the month. Quite a few games have already had solutions either announced or already put into place. The latest are Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War and Dawn of War II.

Relic have swooped in at the last moment seemingly (although the process actually started last week) to save the original Dawn of War from Gamespy and while Dawn of War II is not supported by Gamespy (rather the Games for Windows system) they’ve decided to set it up with the same new system. In short it means that these games, noted for being progressive games in the RTS genre, will continue to offer multiplayer games after the end of May. And that means all seven titles as well.

Dawn of War’s multiplayer has already been updated to work through Steam instead via a patch offered on May 22^nd, but Dawn of War 2’s new system is still a work in progress. Relic say that they expect it to be buggy for a little while, but they couldn’t fathom leaving the players without any sort of multiplayer system for a length of time so release it mostly-finished so they can patch the bugs while still offering players the chance to connect and compete.