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Is Cross-Platform the Biggest Gaming Trend of 2018?

Is Cross-Platform the Biggest Gaming Trend of 2018?

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It's been a long, strange, and often frustrating journey but now, in 2018, we have finally entered the real age of proper cross-platform gaming adaption. For those unaware, this term generally refers to the concept of the same game sharing multiplayer communities over different platforms. While the origins of cross-platform gaming are rather diverse, the more modern adaptions tend to take this simple multi-platform route. How did we get here, and why is this concept so important? Early Efforts The earliest and most generous displays of cross-platform concepts are two-fold. The first major effort, at least in the same way we see today, came from the early attempt at a cross-platform Quake 3 Arena. As one of the biggest series in the world at the time, Quake had an enormous community, ...