It won't have some of the advantages that came with Minecraft when it starts working with new games, but Prokoudine says that the hardest work — making the scalable backend and matchmaking systems — was designed to carry over without much of a hassle.
Ford of TouchArcade said his only issue was with players leaving their play session while the game was still in action, but felt this was mitigated by the game's "Karma" matchmaking system.
Gameplay is primarily multiplayer — hit Deathmatch or Capture the Flag, and the game's matchmaking system will usually have you playing a game in a few seconds.
Boasting 16 maps, some new, some fresh, and that interesting matchmaking system, CS GO is due out in the summer-ish.
The PSP and PC versions allow players to use the same matchmaking system, and the game's code is linked so that if one platform is patched, the other must be as well.
Your friends list will be accessible, but there's also a full matchmaking system which checks your experience and scores so far.
We've tweaked our matchmaking systems so that they're much faster than before, and we just announced that the "Combustible" map pack is available on Xbox Live.
Along the way, you may encounter a second player, with an identical avatar, who is plucked from the Internet through an online matchmaking system.
In 2008 he launched Meetic Affinity, a matchmaking site, which is more expensive.
Yenta's creator, Leonard Foner, said: "My software agent was developed expressly to show that you could have a matchmaking system and still protect your privacy.
