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Bandwidth: Crayta coming to Facebook Gaming, updates on Xbox Keystone

Andrew Romero May 27 2022 - 1:05 pm PT

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Facebook Gaming is a name in streaming you don’t hear much of these days. That may be changing soon with some new information coming to light about Crayta making its way to Facebook Gaming. As for Xbox, it looks like Keystone is in need of some extra time as the company develops the streaming device. On top of that, Amazon Luna outlines its gaming plans for June and GeForce Now brings the heat with some new games this week.

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Bandwidth: GeForce Now hits 1,300 supported games

Andrew Romero May 13 2022 - 1:05 pm PT

This latest slew of games from GeForce Now marks a total of 1300 games supported to the streaming service. The title that marks this record for GeForce Now is Evil Dead: The Game, which will be available today on release.

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Bandwidth: GeForce Now finds Lost Ark, Luna and Xbox confirm latest additions

Andrew Romero Apr 29 2022 - 1:05 pm PT

This marks another week where streaming services are working hard to get as many titles as possible on their platform. GeForce Now is bringing the big guns and making Lost Ark available for its subscribers, while Amazon Luna and Xbox Game Pass are adding some truly enticing titles to their growing catalogs. Here’s what’s new.

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Bandwidth: God of War comes to GeForce Now, Luna Xbox Game Pass expands their catalog of games

Andrew Romero Apr 22 2022 - 1:05 pm PT

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This week, NVIDIA GeForce Now is bringing some fan-favorite picks to its lineup of streamable games for you to finally play, such as the classic God of War. Amazon Luna, on the other hand, is adding some more titles to its gaming channels while Xbox Game Pass does the same.

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Bandwidth: Bugsnax coming to Xbox Game Pass, Need For Speed HEAT drifts into GeForce Now

Andrew Romero Apr 15 2022 - 1:05 pm PT

Xbox Game Pass is keeping up appearances by consistently updating its game offerings. To add this week, Game Pass is bringing an exciting and unique game to the table: Bugsnax. As for GeForce Now, well they’re still adding games like they do every week. The big one this week is Need For Speed HEAT.

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Bandwidth: PlayStation Plus debuts new subscription service, GeForce Now gets Chromebook app

Andrew Romero Apr 1 2022 - 1:05 pm PT

This week marks the introduction to PlayStation’s newest subscription service meant to take on Xbox Game Pass’ overall success. To add, Amazon Luna is finally adding the first round of game additions to its offering list, plus dishing out some free ones for Prime users.

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Bandwidth: Immortals Fenyx Rising free to play for Prime members on Amazon Luna

Andrew Romero Mar 11 2022 - 1:05 pm PT

While most other cloud gaming services like GeForce Now and Xbox Cloud Gaming are quiet this week, Amazon Luna isn’t taking a break after just launching in full. In fact, Luna is bringing Immortals Fenyx Rising to Amazon Prime members for free, for a limited amount of time. To add, NVIDIA GeForce Now is also bringing monthly RTX 3080 memberships to the table.

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Bandwidth: Amazon Luna adds Twitch livestreaming, Microsoft Flight Simulator takes to the cloud

Andrew Romero Mar 4 2022 - 1:05 pm PT

This week, all the stars have aligned to bring tons of new games and features to the cloud gaming scene, whether that’s NVIDIA GeForce Now, Amazon’s Luna, or Xbox Cloud Gaming. In fact, Amazon Luna is finally available to everyone within the US with a fair price and adds the ability to stream to Twitch.

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Amazon Luna drops early access in the US w/ new $9.99 price, Jackbox games, free Prime games

Ben Schoon Mar 1 2022 - 6:41 am PT

Amazon has long been testing out its cloud gaming service Luna in the United States, but only under an early access badge with invites needed to join in on the fun. Today, Amazon Luna is launching fully in the US, with a new higher price tag, more games on the service, and a new Prime gaming channel that offers free games every month.

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Bandwidth: PlayStation’s Xbox Game Pass competitor shapes up, Luna adding Sonic Colors

Ben Schoon Feb 25 2022 - 1:05 pm PT

Subscriptions have become incredibly popular for gaming in recent years, and Xbox Game Pass has become king. Now, Sony is ramping up for its own version of Game Pass, with a subscription library and cloud games for the PlayStation. Now, some of the first details are coming out.

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Amazon has a ‘Play on Luna’ button on Twitch, something Google wanted to do with Stadia [U]

Ben Schoon Feb 21 2022 - 10:45 am PT

Google’s efforts in the cloud gaming space with Stadia started off with shooting for the stars, but quickly turned to the company shooting itself in the foot with missed expectations. The ideas Stadia had, though, remain pretty great, and now Amazon Luna is adopting one of them with a “Play on Luna” button appearing on Twitch.

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Bandwidth: Hitman Trilogy is now available with Xbox Game Pass cloud gaming

Ben Schoon Jan 21 2022 - 1:05 pm PT

Microsoft announced the next batch of games headed to Xbox Game Pass this week, which includes the Hitman Trilogy, complete with cloud support.

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Bandwidth: Rainbow Six Extraction will be streaming from Xbox Game Pass on launch day

Ben Schoon Jan 7 2022 - 1:05 pm PT

Xbox Game Pass launched into 2022 with the reveal of a few new cloud-compatible games, including Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Extraction which will be available on Game Pass from day one.

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Bandwidth: Far Cry 6 gets RTX support on GeForce Now

Ben Schoon Dec 24 2021 - 1:05 pm PT

One of the most attractive parts of Nvidia’s GeForce Now is that it supports the ray-tracing graphics that other cloud gaming platforms do not, and now Far Cry 6 is adding support for the feature.

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Bandwidth: Among Us joins Xbox cloud gaming, GeForce Now’s 3080 tier now available on demand

Ben Schoon Dec 17 2021 - 1:05 pm PT

Among Us is expanding its availability in the cloud, this week coming to Xbox cloud gaming alongside a few other titles.

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Bandwidth: Halo Infinite arrives on Xbox Game Pass, Amazon Luna adds new games

Ben Schoon Dec 10 2021 - 1:05 pm PT

Microsoft’s cloud gaming push hit new heights this week, as one of Xbox’s biggest franchises made its way to xCloud. Halo Infinite is now available on Xbox Game Pass, complete with cloud support.

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Bandwidth: Xbox cloud gamers love touchscreen controls, GeForce Now 3080 tier expands to Europe

Ben Schoon Dec 3 2021 - 1:05 pm PT

Cloud gaming is useful for its ability to bring high-end console/PC games to any device, but as it turns out, mobile gameplay may be the biggest use case. This week, Microsoft released that 20% of users on Xbox cloud gaming are exclusively using the touchscreen controls.

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Bandwidth: GeForce Now gets gift cards, Amazon Luna Black Friday offers

Ben Schoon Nov 26 2021 - 1:05 pm PT

Nvidia this week announced just a handful of new titles for GeForce Now, but more notably the arrival of gift cards for the cloud gaming service.

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Bandwidth: GeForce Now is beating Stadia to launch on LG’s WebOS TVs

Ben Schoon Nov 19 2021 - 1:05 pm PT

LG TV owners are about to get a bonus, as Nvidia has just announced that a GeForce Now app is coming to WebOS TVs as soon as next week.

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Bandwidth: Jurassic World Evolution 2 on GeForce Now, new Luna games, more

Ben Schoon Nov 12 2021 - 1:05 pm PT

Nvidia’s GeForce Now is this week adding Jurassic World Evolution 2 to its ever-expanding library, as Amazon Luna and xCloud also make new additions.

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Bandwidth: GeForce Now’s 3080 tier seems to be the new gold standard for cloud gaming tech

Ben Schoon Oct 29 2021 - 1:05 pm PT

The cloud gaming market has been very competitive over the past year or two, but Google Stadia was widely regarded as being the king of the streaming tech. Now, though, it seems Nvidia has the leg up with the performance of its new GeForce Now 3080 tier.

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Bandwidth: Amazon’s New World makes its cloud debut, just not on the company’s own Luna

Ben Schoon Oct 22 2021 - 1:05 pm PT

Amazon’s first successful game, New World, is taking the community by storm lately and, just a few weeks after its debut, New World is coming to cloud gaming. However, it won’t be doing so on Amazon’s product…

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Bandwidth: Can it run Crysis? Now, just about everything does

Ben Schoon Oct 15 2021 - 1:05 pm PT

The “can it run Crysis” joke has been around for ages and was born out of the game’s advanced graphics — at least for the time. Now, it takes on a new meaning, as GeForce Now is picking up the Crysis Remastered Trilogy, opening up access to the game to basically any device.

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Bandwidth: Xbox adds Totally Accurate Battle Simulator and more, new PS Now additions

Ben Schoon Oct 8 2021 - 1:05 pm PT

Cloud gaming as a whole continues to expand, and this week, several new games are joining the streaming race. That includes support for Totally Accurate Battle Simulator on Xbox Game Pass as well as new additions to PlayStation Now and Amazon Luna, too.

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