Xbox, PC, mobile: Microsoft shows off the future of cross-platform gaming
Carry your game progress across PC, console, and mobile
Convergence has been a magical buzz-word in the technology sector for a few years now and Microsoft has recently given the gaming world a tantalising glimpse of how it could change the way we enjoy our games.
Speaking at TechEd Middle East, Microsoft's Eric Rudder displayed a game which operates across three different formats: console, PC, and mobile phone.
Developed in Visual Studio and using 90 per cent shared code, the fairly basic 2D platformer shows how games of the future could be played: instead of abandoning your progress whenever you leave the house, you could effectively take your adventure with you.
Rudder himself didn’t mention the magic words "Windows Phone 7 Series", but we’d be shocked if this didn’t come to Microsoft’s mobile platform at some point in the future.
Naturally, with mobile technology being the way it is currently it’s unlikely that you’ll be able to perform this kind of cross-system sorcery with the latest console-based big-budget 3D action adventure, but for less ambitious titles it could prove to be the way forward.
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