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To celebrate, Steam is also hosting a Remote Play Together Sale & Streaming Event
Read More »Steam Remote Play Together enables players to share games with friends for cross-play multiplayer gaming
Nottingham-based The Multiplayers Guys has increased its headcount ‘six-fold’ in 2019
"The work we do is niche yet spans across platforms, formats, genres and titles"
Read More »Improbable’s new SpatialOS dev kit will help UE devs ‘seamlessly grow any game in scale and complexity’
"It will be easier than ever for developers [...] to scale their game ideas seamlessly across multiple servers"
Read More »Sledgehammer apologises for Call of Duty: WWII server struggles
Call of Duty: WWII developer Sledgehammer has told fans that it intends to return to a dedicated server structure for the game at some point in the future. Following the introduction of an update last week that caused some online issues, Sledgehammer shifted the game off its dedicated servers and …
Read More »Xbox boss says single-player games are not dead
Shannon Loftis, speaking to Gamespot, says that while the market isn't dead, the economics are "a little more complicated"
Read More »Activision filed a patent for a microtransaction system in 2015
The patent, which was reported by Glixel and IGN, is for a workflow system that 'drives microtransactions in multiplayer video games' and is apparently not in use
Read More »Raiders of the Broken Planet won’t be like Evolve, says Mercurysteam
With the Christmas season rapidly approaching, the usual cluster of blockbuster FPS titles is gradually coming into focus, with Call of Duty: WWII, Star Wars Battlefront 2, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, and, of course, the PC release of Destiny 2 all still to come before the year’s out. …
Read More »Psyonix always gets ‘same answer’ from Sony about cross-platform Rocket League
The developer of Rocket League has said that at least one person from its team has been in touch with Sony every day since launch, and that the topic of cross-platform play has always been met with the same answer. It was confirmed at E3 that the Switch version of …
Read More »Sony addresses crossplatform multiplayer block
With true crossplatform multiplayer now very much a reality, Sony has tried to explain why PS4 has left itself isolated from the party. An upcoming update to Minecraft will introduce online multiplayer across PC, Xbox, mobile and Nintendo, but not PS4. The same is true of Rocket League, whose upcoming …
Read More »Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 multiplayer delayed until Q3
The multiplayer component of CI Games’ Sniper Ghost Warrior 3, which releases today on PS4, Xbox One and PC, will miss the game’s launch day to prevent it from diluting the game’s single-player experience, the developer has announced. Instead, the game’s multiplayer will be released at some point in Q3 …
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