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Oct 06

Four-Way, Big-Screen Multiplayer Coming to Real Racing

Posted in: airplay, Games, ios, ipad 2, iphone 4s, Today's Chili, Toys and Games

Four players with their own iDevice combined into one split-screen view via AirPlay

This is pretty awesome. The already great Real Racing is about to get “Party Play.” Party Play lets up to four people play the game on their iOS device, and all four of their views can be combined in a split-screen view on your TV via AirPlay.

Party Play is the next step on from AirPlay video mirroring (also coming in the next update). Any AirPlay-capable device can be used to join in, but at least one of them has to have an A5 chip inside to do the heavy lifting. This means an iPad 2 or iPhone 4S.

Aside from making a great way for non-players in the room to follow along, and to sneakily peek at what your opponents are up to, you can also switch to a map view on the iDevice’s screen and use the big-screen view for actual playing. It’s a little like the one-player split-screen view in the original Super Mario Kart.

Party Play will be added to Real Racing in the “next major update.” Now might be a good time to get out and make some friends.

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