Epic Games ’empowers’ developers with expansion of crossplay tools

Epic’s Rajen Kishna blogged earlier on Wednesday: “In June 2022, Epic Online Services introduced a free PC crossplay overlay to empower developers to connect their games and communities across multiple PC stores. Today, we are expanding this crossplay overlay with initial support for games on Microsoft Xbox (MSFT), Nintendo Switch (NTDOY), and Sony PlayStation (SONY) while enhancing its capabilities across all supported platforms. The crossplay overlay offers a ubiquitous way to authenticate players, streamline friend management, and provide game invite and joinability functionality that’s designed to be compliant with native platform requirements. Crossplay enables bigger games, bigger audiences, and growth for the global games industry. With the added support for the major console platforms, Epic Online Services now enables you to connect more players with a single overlay.”…The fly notes that TenCent (TCEHY) is a percentage owner of Epic games along with Jim Sweeney who holds more than 50% of the company. Other publicly traded companies in the space include Meta Platforms (META), Pinterest (PINS), Snap (SNAP), Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) and X (TWTR).