Power Rangers: Battle For The Grid aims to be the first fighting game with five-way cross-play

Steam, Stadia, PS4, Xbox One, Switch

[Update: Battle for the Grid is now on Stadia, completing the promise of a fifth cross-play platform. To get it as a Stadia Pro member, and find it under “Stadia Pro Games” along with Panzer Dragoon, Superhot, Get Packed and Little Nightmares.]

What once started as a very rough project blossomed beautifully, as Power Rangers: Battle For The Grid&nbs💧p;adds another feature over a year 🐷into its launch.

According to the official Twitter account, once Battle for the Grid arrives on Stadia in June, it will join the array of cross-play capable versions that already exist. In other words, you can play across St💧adia with Steam, PS4, Xbox One and Switch users. The developers make the claim that this is the first time a fighting game contains cross-play across five different platforms.

It’s still weird to see Sony playing ball with PS4 cross-play after openly mocking it for so long. We’re entering a brave new era now where cross-play is expected, and should hopefully be seen as a basic feature. Having grown up for several decades and heard the “oh man you got the [Xbox/PlayStation] version, we can’t play now” phrase followed by a groan, it’s great to see that games not only are unified, but have larger communities behind them.

That’ll only ensure their preservation for longer, sometimes without the need to buy a sequel or “Super Edition” sooner.

[Twitter]