Cross Platform Gaming

Dolphin Emulator adds NetPlay online multiplayer to its Android version

Dolphin Emulator has added NetPlay support to its Android build, letting users play GameCube and Wii titles online with others. The update also enables cross-platform NetPlay sessions, so Android players can join matches with people running Dolphin on Windows, Mac, or Steam Deck. The developers say the feature relies on a lockstep syncing method that runs the emulator on a single CPU core to keep gameplay aligned across devices.

androidauthority.com · 2026-09-24

Indie studio's decade-old backend ran seven games on 11 platforms for €10-50/month

A solo developer built a game backend called GDT (Game Development Toolkit) that has run every title they've shipped since 2016, including Marooners, Verdun, Tannenberg, Isonzo, Crash Drive 2 and 3, plus a seventh game built by another studio. The PHP version, roughly 20,000 lines running on Google App Engine with Firestore, supported Steam, Epic, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, mobile and web without a player-noticed outage in ten years, and has now been replaced by a C# version on Cloud Run.

m2h.nl · 2026-09-22