Cloud gaming

• Epic Games Founder Praises Cross-Play; Amazon Lays Off Dozens of Game Development Staff

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  TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: Epic Games founder praises cross-play; Amazon lays off dozens of game development staff; and 83% of gamers interested in new cloud gaming services. Epic Games founder praises cross-play Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney has discussed the potential of cross play, consumers playing the same multiplayer game across rival platforms with distinct online ecosystems, and it being a vital component of Fortnite’s major commercial success. Describing how he established [...]

• E3: Microsoft reveals Xbox One successor, coming 2020

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  With this year’s huge E3 gaming conference hardly underway, Microsoft has revealed that its follow up to the Xbox One console, announcing that the machine is due to launch in 2020. Code-named Project Scarlett, the coming console promises to be ‘four times’ as powerful as Microsoft’s current-generation Xbox One. Console ‘power’, of course, is too complicated to exist on a linear spectrum where all games machines are comparable using a single metric. But thanks in-part to a custom processor, built by Microsoft [...]

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• Google confirms pricing structure, launch details and games for cloud-based Stadia gaming platform

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  Google has moved to reveal more details on its eagerly anticipated Stadia cloud-gaming service; namely pricing structures, launch details and launch games. The gaming platform – due in November this year – requires no console-like ‘box’ or dedicated hardware beyond a game controller or mouse and keyboard. Instead, games will be streamed over the cloud direct from Google data centres to customers’ screens and controllers. Stadia will be available over smart TVs, laptops, desktop computers and smartphones. Users will access the [...]

• Sony and Microsoft partner to explore cloud gaming and more

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  Sony and Microsoft are to collaborate to develop their respective cloud platforms, covering gaming and other entertainment forms. The pair will also partner to pursue innovations in artificial intelligence and semiconductors. While the two tech giants are looking at the potential of pairing Sony’ semiconductors with Microsoft’s existing cloud offering, their announcement does not suggest that they are developing a single platform or device that they will release together. This collaboration, it appears, is about the two collaborating to bolster their [...]