GameSpy announced that they have developed a middleware solution to provide online gaming support for the Nintendo Wii. According to GameSpy, their tools will allow friend lists, online rankings and matchmaking for the Wii. As previously announced, the first game to utilize online Wi-Fi gaming for the Wii will be Pokemon Battle Revolution, shipping on June 25. GameSpy’s press release indicates that the game will have online support similar to existing DS titles, which would seem to indicate that the friend code structure used on the handheld (and in the Japanese release of Battle Revolution) will be used again. Whether third-parties (or Nintendo) can move away from the friend code structure in the future is unclear.