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We're coming up to June, which means it is time to see what's next for Xbox Game Pass. While we expect to see some major Game Pass announcements at the Xbox Showcase later in the month, the first wave of titles has already been announced.  Kicking things off, we have …

While Xbox has spent a great deal of time pushing its cloud gaming services (thanks in no small part to Microsoft’s ownership of the Azure cloud computing service), Sony has focused much more on local gaming solutions. This seems to be shifting somewhat with a number of new job listings – alongside recent rumours – suggesting that Sony is going all-in on cloud gaming.

It's the first Tuesday of the month, which means it is time for a new batch of Xbox Game Pass games to be announced. There will be five more games hitting the service over the next couple of weeks, including former PS5 exclusive, Ghostwire: Tokyo, as well as Mojang's next big release, Minecraft Legends. 

We first heard about Pax Dei back in 2021. At the time, it was billed as a scalable cloud MMO and was supposedly being developed in partnership with Xbox, although it later shifted into a multiplatform project. Now, the studio behind the game, Mainframe, has officially unveiled its ambitious MMO.  …

While older Resident Evil games run quite nicely on the Nintendo Switch, newer releases in the franchise, such as Resident Evil 2 & 3 Remake, Resident Evil 7 and Resident Evil Village would struggle. Still, Capcom has found a way to bring these titles to Switch owners through cloud gaming.  …

A few weeks ago, Logitech announced that it has teamed up with Tencent to launch its own gaming handheld, primarily focused on providing easy access to cloud gaming services like GeForce Now and Xbox Cloud Gaming. Despite plans to launch before the end of the year, Logitech did not show …

The first half of the month saw titles like Ghost Recon Wildlands, Two Point Campus, Cooking Simulator and Offworld Trading Company joining the Xbox Game Pass library. Now, Microsoft has revealed the titles coming in the second half of August, including another big Ubisoft release.  Ubisoft is continuing to add …

Cloud gaming is still a rather fringe technology, with many game developers, publishers and console manufacturers exploring the potential of the cloud for video games. Gaming and tech giant Tencent has announced the START ENGINE – a brand new video game engine developed specifically for Cloud gaming. Making the announcement …

Xbox Cloud Gaming is now available across a pretty huge range of devices, from iOS and Android, to PCs, Xbox consoles and even Samsung TVs. As the service continues to gain momentum, Microsoft is looking to make new upgrades. At this point, xCloud servers have already been upgraded with Xbox …

Cloud gaming is becoming an increasingly adopted method of gaming in the industry, with all three major console manufacturers utilising it to some degree. Publisher Square Enix is now exploring the technology, announcing an investment into ‘B2B2C Cloud Gaming Platform Blacknut.’ Making the announcement via press release, the cloud company …

Recently, details about two upcoming projects from Hideo Kojima have leaked. While Kojima Productions is working on Death Stranding 2, presumably for PlayStation once again, the studio is also working on a second game in a partnership with Xbox. Today at the Xbox and Bethesda showcase, Microsoft confirmed its new …

Computex 2022 is now in full swing. Following on from the major AMD and Nvidia keynotes, MSI has now unveiled its full line-up for the year, including new gaming laptops and PCs, new monitors, graphics cards and other hardware. Alongside AMD's keynote, MSI unveiled its range of upcoming X670 and …

The fact that Microsoft is beginning to fund and develop ‘cloud-native’ games is an open secret at this point, with recent reports indicating that Xbox was working with a new studio, Mainframe, to build an ambitious cloud-native MMO. As it turns out, whatever deal was in place for this game …

Back in 2019, Microsoft and Sony formed a “strategic partnership”, with Sony agreeing to utilise Microsoft's cloud technology to develop next-gen streaming products. Now, Microsoft is forming a “strategic alliance” with another Japanese company – SEGA.  First things first, this is not an acquisition. Sega has long been rumoured to …

GeForce Now is about to get its biggest upgrade to date, bringing the power of the RTX 3080 graphics card to the cloud gaming platform. A new subscription tier is also being introduced alongside this hardware upgrade. 

Yesterday, Microsoft revealed that Outriders is coming to Xbox Game Pass for PC this week. It turns out, the company had many more games lined up and ready to be announced. Today, the next 11 games coming to Xbox Game Pass were revealed, including one of last generation's best fighting …

Earlier this month, Nintendo announced that the Kingdom Hearts games are finally coming to the Nintendo Switch. There is a catch though, the full series, including the 1.5 + 2.5 remaster, are coming to Switch via cloud streaming, with no native versions announced. This was somewhat disappointing news, but Square …

Yesterday alongside the reveal of Sora for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Nintendo also announced that the Kingdom Hearts games were coming to Nintendo Switch. There is a catch though, as all of the titles will be cloud-based, not just Kingdom Hearts 3.  We initially thought that Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 …

Ever since its announcement and release, Google’s Stadia has failed to live up to expectations on all fronts, with customers disappointed in the service, and Google disappointed in its sales performance. Still, the company has not yet given up, and is now trying to win back lapsed subscribers by giving …

While there continues to be a stigma against game streaming, Microsoft is continuing to push the platform forward, adding more and more support for cloud-based game streaming. As part of this, a new update to the Xbox app on Windows now lets you stream games to your PC via Game …

Over the last six months, multiple sources have claimed that Netflix is working towards offering games as part of its streaming package. This was confirmed in July, with the streaming giant explaining that its efforts will focus on smaller, mobile titles at first. Now, the first streamable games are rolling …

Back in May, we learned that Netflix was mulling over a bigger push into the video game industry and was looking to hire experienced industry veterans to help. Now, it seems that Netflix has made its first big gaming hire, putting former Oculus exec, Mike Verdu, as VP of game …

Prior to Google Stadia shutting down all game development and publishing efforts, Hideo Kojima had approached the company in hopes of releasing an episodic horror game on the platform. Now, all signs indicate that Xbox will be working with Kojima Productions on this game instead.  According to VentureBeat, Hideo Kojima …

Back in 2019, Microsoft became the third company to reach a $1 trillion market cap. Now in 2021, Microsoft has hit a new milestone, becoming the second company to be worth $2 trillion USD.  Microsoft reached the $1 trillion milestone in Q2 2019, just behind Apple and Amazon. In August …

We've known for quite some time now that Microsoft is planning to bring Xbox Game Streaming to more platforms beyond Android. A PC version of xCloud was being tested last year and a web version of the service is also planned. This week, we finally get a peek at the …

Though many industries have suffered in the wake of COVID-19 and the global pandemic, one industry which has seemed to benefit in some ways is the gaming industry. While the proportion of games bought digitally have increased over the course of 2020, it would appear as though interest in cloud …

While there exists many competing online cloud storage solutions, one of the most consumer friendly was Google’s which offered free unlimited photo and video storage with only a few caveats. It would seem this is no longer the case however, as come June 2021, all free users will be limited …

We've known for a long time now that Amazon has been quietly working on its own cloud gaming solution. Yesterday in a surprise twist, the company officially announced it. Luna is Amazon's game streaming service, which takes another different approach compared to Google Stadia or Project xCloud. 

Towards the end of 2019, Amazon mentioned that new AMD-powered instances were in the works, and these have now finally debuted in form of 2nd Gen AMD EPYC-run instances. Amazon's 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors run at frequencies of up to 3.3GHz and are the sixth instance family at AWS powered …

AMD has already got a bit of a foothold in cloud gaming, as Microsoft's Project xCloud runs on AMD silicon, and Google Stadia is powered by AMD Radeon graphics. Now, AMD is also partnering with Oxide Games to further its efforts in the cloud gaming market. Oxide Games was founded …