Tag: multiplayer
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Facebook Messenger now lets you play multiplayer games during video calls
Facebook just announced it is implementing multiplayer games into the video call feature within Messenger. This functionality allows you to converse with friends and family as you kick their booty in 14 currently-available titles. Trash talk is back, baby!
The video call gaming feature is available on Messenger for iOS, Android and the web, with no specialized installations required. The 14 games being showcased at launch include old favorites like Words With Friends and Mini Golf FRVR to newer titles like Card Wars and Exploding Kittens. Each game is designed to be played by as few as two people, though each title boasts differing maximum player numbers.
Each game is optimized for the service, with clearly-demarcated leader boards, and a user interface that leverages the Messenger experience. All you have to do is start a video call on Messenger, tap the group mode button, tap the “Play” icon, and then browse through the library of available games. The company has been experimenting with Messenger-enabled games for the past few years, but nothing has really stuck, so one hopes this new mode has some staying power.
The launch lineup here is relatively slim, at 14 titles, but Facebook Gaming says more free games are on the horizon later this year. To that end, the company is urging interested developers to contact their Partner Manager for details on how to add games to the platform. This news comes mere months after Meta shuttered the standalone Facebook Gaming app.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/facebook-messenger-now-lets-you-play-multiplayer-games-during-video-calls-191632154.html?src=rss
Foxhole’s developers are bringing their massively multiplayer formula to medieval warfare
Foxhole finished its early access journey last year as an expansive massively multiplayer World War 2 shooter that looks and functions like an RTS in which every soldier is an individual player. Now developers Siege Camp (formerly Clapfoot) have announced Anvil Empires, which seems similar in every way except its now thousands-strong armies are forging arrows and sieging castles in medieval warfare.
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Men Of War 2’s multiplayer mode is the tank’s time to shine
Men Of War 2 doesn’t do anything by half measures, as I discovered during a recent tussle with its online multiplayer modes. Whereas Relic’s recently released Company Of Heroes 3 will let you pick from its four broad faction types in its WWII RTS battles, Men Of War 2 takes a much more granular view, offering up 14-15 different unit types for each of its three playable nations. That’s a dizzying array of infantry, tank and artillery battalions to choose from, and that’s before you account for all the individual nuances between its Soviet, USA and German army types. Throw in seven game modes across several different maps, and it’s a veritable strategy smorgasbord to stuff your face into.
Crucially, though, everyone gets access to some sort of tank, which let’s face it, is always going to be the MVP of any WW2 strategy game, and probably the sole reason why we’re here in the first place. As Men Of War 2 heads into its first open multiplayer tech test on Steam today (running until March 27th), here’s my full report of my mildly doomed multiplayer tankventures in its Combat, Front Line and Incursion modes.
The Witcher’s multiplayer spin-off might be rebooting development
Last year publisher CD Projekt Red announced Project Sirius, a spin-off to The Witcher from Molasses Flood – the studio behind Flame In The Flood and Drakes Hollow. But it seems we might need to wait a while more to see the untitled project, as it looks like it’s getting rebooted to start development from scratch.
Magic: The Gathering officially recognizes a new multiplayer format, Oathbreaker
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