Neowin News Feed for: Crossplay

Rematch update finally delivers crossplay and in-game player reporting

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:48:02 +0000

Rematch players can finally matchmake across all platforms thanks to the latest update by Sloclap. The major update also carries a player reporting system and more features. Read more...

Rematch crossplay is almost here as studio enables beta updates on one platform

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 22:16:01 +0000

The arcade soccer game of Sloclap is opening up a beta program to test upcoming patches, and there's some news on the crossplay implementation too. Read more...

Gears of War: Reloaded announced for PC, Xbox, and PlayStation with full crossplay

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Mon, 05 May 2025 16:44:01 +0000

Microsoft is bringing back the original Gears of War as a complete remaster, and this time, even PlayStation players are invited. Read more...

Baldur's Gate 3 final major update is live with cross-play, 12 subclasses, photo mode, more

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 16:02:01 +0000

With today's eighth major update, Larian Studios is effectively finished with adding new content and features for Baldur's Gate III. The latest update brings a massive number of changes though. Read more...

Palworld gains crossplay, Pal transfers between worlds, photo mode, and more

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:04:01 +0000

The breakout sandbox hit Palworld just received its long-awaited crossplay feature. The update also carries a bunch of other additions, as well as bug fixes. Read more...

Palworld is finally getting crossplay later this month across Windows, Xbox, PS5, and Mac

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 22:02:01 +0000

Palworld, the hit sandbox title from Pocketpair, will soon let players across Windows, Xbox, PS5, and Mac jump into the same worlds together, a hugely requested feature. Read more...

Treyarch is finally letting Black Ops 6 console players disable cross-play with PC in Ranked

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 21:56:01 +0000

Treyarch will soon let Xbox and PlayStation players stop matching with PC players in Ranked playlists. Some major anti-cheat measures are being taken behind the scenes too. Read more...

Larian is adding 12 new subclasses, photo mode, cross-play and more to Baldur's Gate 3

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 21:36:01 +0000

Larian has a massive update incoming to Baldur's Gate 3 next year, which will add fresh subclasses, cross-play between PC and console platforms, and much more. Read more...

Rainbow Six Siege gets crossplay, a reworked Blackbeard, AI chat moderation, and more

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 14:30:01 +0000

Ubisoft may not have a new operator or new map for the latest Rainbox Six season, but Operation Collision Point is packed with reworks and tweaks, including a complete Blackbeard rework. Read more...

Riot's competitive shooter Valorant is coming to Xbox Series X|S and PS5, beta next week

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 00:02:01 +0000

Riot is finally bringing its 5v5 competitive shooter Valorant to consoles, with crossplay between Xbox and PS5. A closed beta for this version is kicking off in June, and registrations are now open. Read more...

Sea of Thieves on PS5 will ship with cross-play, cross-progression, and DualSense support

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:22:01 +0000

Rare has confirmed that the PlayStation 5 version of Sea of Thieves has Shared Progression and cross-play with other platforms. DualSense support, exclusive cosmetics, and more are coming too. Read more...

Sony unveils Helldivers 2 PC requirements, confirms cross-play with PlayStation 5

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 17:12:01 +0000

The next first-party game coming from Sony, Helldivers 2, is hitting both PlayStation and PC simultaneously, and today, the official system requirements were announced for the latter platform. Read more...

Mortal Kombat 1 launches tomorrow but without crossplay multiplayer support

John Callaham — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 18:18:02 +0000

Developer NetherRealm Studios has confirmed that Mortal Kombat 1 will not have crossplay multiplayer support when it launches Sept. 14. That support will be added sometime after launch. Read more...

Epic Games' free crossplay tools for developers now support consoles

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:34:02 +0000

Epic Games is expanding its crossplay toolset in the Epic Online Services platform to include consoles. In addition to PC, now developers can bring together Xbox, Switch, and PlayStation players. Read more...

Quake II returns to action with new enhanced edition, out now with crossplay and more

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 17:38:02 +0000

QuakeCon 2022 opened the show with an announcement for Quake II, a new-and-improved version of the classic from 1997 featuring 4K widescreen support, cross-play, improved AI, and much more. Read more...

Epic Online Services Crossplay to help developers port their games to multiple storefronts

Alap Naik Desai — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 16:28:01 +0000

Epic Games has released Epic Online Services SDK 1.15 which includes Crossplay for PC tool. The platform merges the friend lists of Steam and Epic Games Store allowing gamers access to their friends. Read more...

Quake returns with major enhancements, new content, and cross-play, out now

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 18:46:02 +0000

A brand-new version of Quake with major enhancements, cross-play across all platforms, a new expansion, and more was unveiled today during QuakeCon. It is out now across all platforms. Read more...

Rainbow Six Siege is gaining crossplay and cross-progression support in waves

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 22:26:01 +0000

Ubisoft is planning to bring crossplay and cross-progression capabilities to its tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege, but console players will be waiting for the update until next year. Read more...

Epic offered to make Sony 'look like heroes' in exchange for enabling crossplay in Fortnite

Usama Jawad — Tue, 04 May 2021 05:32:01 +0000

Confidential documents and email exchanges between Epic Games and Sony have revealed reasons as to why the latter was adamant about restricting crossplay and what finally led to its concession. Read more...

Vehicular combat title War Thunder finally heading to Xbox One

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 15:54:01 +0000

Gaijin Entertainment has announced that it is developing an Xbox One version of War Thunder, its multiplayer vehicular combat game. Enhancements for the Xbox One X are also planned. Read more...

Xbox mouse support may be coming in the next Insider update

Gurkaran Singh — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 19:56:01 +0000

Microsoft may have recently shipped the Fall Update to Xbox, but it's not slowing down just yet. After much delay, mouse support may finally be coming to Xbox in the next Insider update wave. Read more...