An emergent trend in gaming is the rise of cloud-powered game streaming. PlayStation Now has tackled this concept for half a decade, allowing players to stream games to their PS4 and PC. Xbox upped the ante recently with Project xCloud whic...

As noted by 9to5Google, the Google Stadia's wireless controller will haven limited wireless functionality at launch, and will require the use of a Chromecast Ultra for cable-free fun.A small disclaimer has been spotted in the fine print of ...

There's been all sorts of murmurs, whispers and theories from the video game community about Google Stadia. As a mostly unexplored venture, from a company with an unproven track record in the marketplace, some members of the gaming communit...

While the specter of cloud gaming looms above the industry like a creature towers above Hawkins, Indiana, Nintendo is still making sense of it all. The Big N has always played a "wait and see" strategy when it comes to most infrastruct...

Today at their impressive E3 press conference, Microsoft delivered just what many of us expected, with new news on their next generation of gaming hardware, Project Scarlett.Microsoft's next generation console will feature a custom designed...

[Update: Article features new information gathered from the official reveal.] Canadian newspaper La Presse, following a pre-briefing event, has released pricing and other details pertaining to streaming gaming platform Google Stadia, ahead ...

Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that its PlayStation Now feature is to increase its European coverage across 2019, rolling out the cloud-based gaming service to further countries within the continent.Spain, Italy, Portugal, Nor...

New Year's. A time to relax with your family and your Christmas gifts, and of course...sate investors? Yep, a number of New Year's Resolution pacts have been popping up across the web from publishers, and the latest is from Square Enix, in ...

As major companies push for cloud-based gaming (Google and Ubisoft are its current champions) Capcom is going to try to continue to make sense of it all. Speaking during an investor Q&A for the first half of the fiscal year ending in Ma...

Earlier this month, Microsoft announced plans to bring console-quality games to smartphones. Dubbed "Project xCloud," the idea behind the service is to allow everyone to be able to play Xbox exclusive titles without the need for owning an X...

Xbox boss Phil Spencer makes a very quick pitch at the start of this Project xCloud video: "what would we have to do to allow everyone to play Halo." The answer is simple: "build a cloud gaming service." It's been done before, and fail...

Not every single game supports cloud saves with an active Nintendo Switch Online membership, but most do, and there's been understandable confusion about whether or not subscribers will "lose" their cloud data after canceling their Switch O...

Announced during Japan's Nintendo Direct tonight, Japan will be getting a cloud-based version of Assassin's Creed Odyssey for the Switch. Why this isn't coming West is anyone's guess, but it appears to be the game in its entirety streamed t...

When we first got details about Nintendo's upcoming "Switch Online" service, one of the promises was cloud saving for "most Nintendo Switch games". While it may have been naive to assume that Nintendo was just being cheeky, I honestly didn'...

Fresh out of EA's E3 conference, EA has announced 'Origin Access Premiere,' a new cloud gaming and subscription service coming this summer with titles such as FIFA 19, Anthem, Madden, and "many more titles in the years to come." Basically, ...

Yesterday's Nintendo Direct was quite the show, but Japan got their own exclusive little announcements. While we were already aware of Phantasy Star Online 2 coming to the Switch, now Link is going to be available in the game. While this lo...

I'm always fascinated by developer interviews and retrospectives on popular games, and Pokémon Go was easily the biggest release of the year so far. Google's Cloud platform was the tech running in the background for Pok&eac...

In late 2014 Square Enix announced the formation of a new subsidiary company, Shinra Technologies. The Final Fantasy VII-nodding company name works on two levels, as Shinra's focus was cloud gaming, aiming to "break the stranglehold of havi...

Telltale Games rep Job Stauffer recently confirmed that cross-platform saving, most recently seen in Minecraft: Story Mode, is something the company plans to implement going forward. The feature is exclusive to Telltale Games Account users,...

When Ryu released for Super Smash Bros. earlier this year, he brought with him a cool piece of art (though Wii Fit Trainer looks more like a bodybuilder than a yoga instructor in it). Thankfully, it was a tradition continued with the next s...

In the wake of last week's reveal of Final Fantasy's Cloud coming to Super Smash Bros., some people have managed to put together videos analyzing his introduction in great detail. We have two great examples for you. The first, by GameXplai...

Microsoft pushed out an update on Xbox 360 today that extends the console's cloud storage -- you'll now have 2GB of space for your precious save files. That's not all: Accept Terms of Use – You can now connect your Xbox 360 to a net...

Square Enix has announced the establishment of Shinra Technologies, a cloud gaming company spearheaded by erstwhile Square Enix president Yoichi Wada. The subsidiary, which takes its moniker from the organization in Final Fantasy VII, aims ...

Microsoft's long sang the praises of the power of the cloud, especially with regard to Xbox One. One of the games announced yesterday during the Xbox press conference may be a shining example of what the cloud can do. Today, I sat down wit...

Microsoft has acquired a high-performance cloud-computing company named GreenButton today. The two companies have worked together in the past, with GreenButton also providing services to HP, Amazon, and others. But TechCrunch reports that M...