Trendy Entertainment today announced at GDC that Dungeon Defenders will be shown adding true four-player cross-platform multiplayer across the PlayStation 3, WindowsPCs, iOS and Android devices—a first for this industry.
“We’re doing things now that we’ve dreamed about doing for years,” said Jeremy Stieglitz, COO and co-founder of Trendy Entertainment. “The industry is inevitably moving towards platform-agnostic interconnectivity for multiplayer and anytime/anywhere access to in-game content. Companies have trained us to expect such access with our music, our photos and any online media, pretty much everything. It’s only natural for us to give gamers the ability to play Dungeon Defenders online, anywhere they want, whatever their platforms of choice.”
Hailed by fans and critics for gorgeous graphics and deep gameplay, the Dungeon Defenders series debuted earlier this year with Dungeon Defenders: First Wave, the only iOS title besides Infinity Blade to use Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 and the only Unreal based Android game. Dungeon Defenders recently took a bow at Sony’s unveil of the Next Generation Portable during its announcement event in Tokyo, where Epic’s Tim Sweeney used Dungeon Defenders to show off Epic’s tech running on the NGP. It was most recently announced at the Sony Ericsson press conference during Mobile World Congress that Dungeon Defenders: Second Wave would come to Sony’s Xperia PLAY as a two month exclusive. The full version of Dungeon Defenders will arrive on Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network later this year.
Dungeon Defenders utilizes many of GameSpy Technology’s cross-platform online services, which includes multiplayer matchmaking and deep player data tracking. Additionally, Trendy Entertainment is among the first studios to take advantage of GameSpy Open, GameSpy’s newly announced initiative to make all of its services available to start-up and independent developers for free.
