Gearbox Software’s Borderlands 3 crossplay is built on years of AWS infrastructure groundwork

After six months of exclusivity with Epic Store, Borderlands 3 hit Steam last week with crossplay support, welcoming a whole new cohort of Vault Hunters to bring the mayhem on PC.

And while on Epic and Steam users are now able to play together with a flip of a switch, developers at Gearbox Software have been working on several moving parts behind the scenes for some time to make crossplay a reality. We sat down with Gearbox’s director of platform Comb Hua to find out what it takes to bring a feature like this to life.