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A one-month subscription to Sony’s PS3 game streaming service will cost PS4 owners $19.99, it has been revealed. The US PlayStation Blog has said that access to the service will cost either $19.99 a month or $44.99 for three months (averaging out at around $15 per month). For the money …
Read More »Details emerge on Arcadia, Microsoft’s game-streaming tech
System being built around Azure cloud network, will also stream apps
Read More »Microsoft’s streaming games service is called Arcadia, report claims
Arcadia is the name of Microsoft’s in-development streaming games tech. That’s according to ZDNet, which says Arcadia is being developed by a new streaming team in Microsoft’s Operating Systems Group and is designed to replace the ‘Rio’ streaming tech demonstrated last year. Arcadia, which is being built around Microsoft’s existing …
Read More »Valve takes on Twitch with Steam Broadcasting
But Twitch undeterred by rival service
Read More »Netflix rolls out 1080p streaming on iPhone 6 Plus
An iPhone 6 Plus specific version of the Netflix app is now available on the App Store. The chief feature is full 1080p video streaming, although the app will also mirror some others such as Apple’s own email app in making use of the smartphone’s extended screen real estate to …
Read More »New Twitch category shines spotlight on games development
Devs can now stream as they work to show users how games are made
Read More »Green Man Gaming now selling OnLive subscription bundle
Green Man Gaming has become the first retailer to be able to sell OnLive’s Games Bundle. By signing up to OnLive’s all you can eat Games Bundle, Green Man Gaming users will have access to over 250 titles on demand via the cloud. New games are to be added monthly, …
Read More »‘Sony has the potential to make the game console market its exclusive territory’, analyst claims
A US analyst has predicted that Sony could eventually grow to control virtually the entire console market. "Sony has the potential to make the game console market its exclusive territory,” Bank of America/Merrill Lynch analyst Eiichi Katayama told The Wall Street Journal in a report claiming that the company’s current …
Read More »Destiny attracts biggest Twitch launch audience of 2014
More people have watched streaming Destiny footage on Twitch in 2014 than any other new game launch. It was viewed nearly 20m times in its first week, with 5m unique viewers consuming nearly 240m minutes of gameplay. Our community has always blown us away with their desire to share, entertain, …
Read More »Microsoft to stream Xbox One and Xbox 360 games to PC browsers – report
Consumers may soon have access to both current and last-gen Xbox games without the need for a console. That’s according to Neowin, which reports that Microsoft has recently made significant advances in reducing lag in streamed games and hopes to implement the tech in a streaming Xbox service designed for …
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