Galactic Reign becomes the first 'universal' Xbox game for Windows Phone and Windows 8

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disolitude on 14 March 2013

http://www.wpcentral.com/galactic-reign-windows-8-impressions

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One purchase for all Windows platforms! (Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 8, Windows RT, Windows 8)

"Galactic Reign is a sci-fi strategy game. It’s sort of a distant cousin to Skulls of the Shogun, only without the story mode. In fact, the only single-player component here is the Battle Academy. This mode presents a series of 60 challenges, all aimed at teaching players the relationship between the game’s various ships and weapons.

Each challenge starts out with a fleet-building phase in which players first create blueprints for ships to use in battle. The assortment of ships and equipment they can be outfitted with varies from challenge to challenge. Once a blueprint or two has been selected, the ships can then be built. You get a certain amount of resource units to spend. Simply tap the plus-minus button on a ship or adjust a slider until your points have all been spent.

Galactic Reign wouldn’t be much fun if not for its multiplayer mode. Online battles take place asynchronously, and the game does support matchmaking. Windows Phone and Windows 8 players can even compete against each other. We can’t test that cross-platform support until the phone version becomes available later today, but the experience should essentially be the same on each platform."

My thoughts - This is the future of gaming. Not the game itself as I haven't played it yet, but the concept of buy one digital copy, play on any device within an ecosystem and against users on any platform. No one has the opportunity to do this better than Microsoft.