CrossPlatform

Minecraft is a massive survival crafting game that is one of the best-selling video games of all time. Given the title’s widespread availability on essentially every modern platform, some players might want to know about Minecraft cross-platform functionality. But with Microsoft’s ownership of the title, does it have cross-play? Screenshot by Destructoid Is Minecraft cross-platform? Yes, Minecraft is fully cross-platform if you are playing the Bedrock Edition of the game. If you are playing Java Edition or any other…

Helldivers 2 received patch 1.000.103 today to the delight of mech fans. But hours later, the team snuck out a fix for something that has been a thorn in the side of the community. For those wanting to invite cross-platform friends, a new fix for Helldivers 2 has arrived. The cross-platform friend invite fix was announced on the official Helldivers 2 Discord sometime after the big patch went live. According to Arrowhead Games’ community lead, Katherine Baskin, the patch was applied directly to the game’s backend. You…

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends I’ve been playing a lot of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, which, as a self-proclaimed PC gaming snob, would have presented a problem for me in the past. After all, a console exclusive like Rebirth just doesn’t fit into my typical pattern of gaming, which oscillates between desktop at home and Steam Deck on the go. But I’ve found a solution, opening up the world of third-party apps and breaking the mold for the Steam Deck. It’s allowed me to game far beyond my Steam library, revealing the…

The Terminids are back in Helldivers 2, and only you and your friends can save Super Earth by working together. This sequel shifts the perspective of the first game from a top-down angle to a more traditional third-person one, but retains the chaotic formula of swarms of enemies and the ever-present threat of friendly fire. Being so heavily dependent on co-op, you will always want a team of friends by your side when you drop planet-side to run missions. This is a rare case where a PlayStation-published game is…

What is a pirate without their crew? Skull and Bones aims to let you live out all your pirate fantasies, including captaining your own ship, digging up treasure, and engaging in naval battles. While all that is fun on its own, this is an online experience, and filling your crew with friends can make your adventures all the more enjoyable. However, this title is setting sail on all platforms, so what if your ideal crew is spread across different consoles? Will you be able to raise a flag together or be forced to sail…

WhatsApp is one of the most lauded messaging apps out there. And it plans to better its service as it complies with the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). As part of a new arrangement, WhatsApp will likely introduce cross-platform usability which may allow users to send messages to other third-party apps like iMessage, Telegram, Google Messages, Signal, etc. But, the feature’s success depends on the willingness of other companies to participate. Not to mention the concerns about privacy and encryption. WhatsApp…

Palworld, the new creature-collecting survival game that fans have dubbed “Pokémon with guns,” has become a viral hit on launch day. With Pokémon being a Nintendo console-exclusive franchise (and one of the most successful video game franchises of all time), it’s no surprise that gamers who stick to other platforms are eager for the chance to capture and battle with oddball creatures in an open-world setting. The jury is still out on whether Palworld is going to last or if its launch day sales figures are the result…

Developers of Palworld have confirmed they’re working on adding cross-platform play to the open-world survival crafting game “as soon as possible”. Palworld entered Early Access today (January 19) and during a Q+A with fans on Discord, Pocketpair revealed they’re still working hard on making the game bigger and more communal. “Palworld will continue to be updated during and after early access,” they explained, with a roadmap due in the coming days. They also confirmed that while Palworld doesn’t currently support…

After finding massive success in a limited beta, The Finals launched and instantly became one of the most popular free-to-play shooters on all platforms. Mixing the visual styling of Mirror’s Edge and the destructibility of a Battlefield title, this squad-based shooter has all the ingredients to be a hit for years to come. However, there’s one question that could put that future into question: Is it crossplay? Without a big enough player base, even a game like The Finals will die off since playing online is the only…

Cross Platform NLP in RustOptimization with Rayon with usage in C/C++, Android and PythonPhoto by Patrick Tomasso on UnsplashNLP tools and utilities have grown largely in the Python ecosystem, enabling developers from all levels to build high-quality language apps at scale. Rust is a newer introduction to NLP, with organizations like HuggingFace adopting it to build packages for machine learning.Hugging Face has written a new ML framework in Rust, now open-sourced!In this blog, we’ll explore how we can build a text…