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Cloud gaming services became
popular last year and since then a new technology of game streaming has
evolved, and its popularity is increasing among avid gamers. There are
several new solutions which allow streaming a game from a computer in
your house to a device in another room. The game streaming options cover
local game-streaming and fancy cloud-gaming services, which even stream
from a data center over the Internet. Have a look at the five most
popular game-streaming services which you can use easily.
1. Steam In-Home Streaming:
This is one of the most handy game streaming services as it's built into Steam. This solution is not meant only for Steam games but other PC games too. This feature was designed keeping Steam OS in mind for Steam Machines and with this service you can stream games from your Windows gaming PC to Steam Machine, which runs on Linux-based Steam OS in another room. You can also stream games to a lightweight box which is connected to your television. Steam OS is not even required for the same all the time. Enable Steam in-home streaming on Windows PC and start streaming games to any Windows, Mac or Linux PC. You can even run the game on your PC and play it on another lightweight laptop. It can be used on local network only.
2. NVIDIA GameStream:
There is a GameStream feature in NVIDIA which is offered by GeForce Experience application for modern NVIDIA GeForce graphics hardware. If there is appropriate hardware in your system, then open the GeForce Experience application, click GameStream and then use the options to set it up. There is a major drawback though. NVIDIA GameStream can only stream to NVIDIA Shield Portable and NVIDIA Shield Tablet devices. No other computer can be used in this case and not any other mobile device too, even though there is NVIDIA graphics hardware in the devices. It can stream games over the Internet, but there is no assurance over how it works actually. It depends on the Internet connections on both ends.
3. NVIDIA GRID:
NVIDIA GameStream is focused on streaming games from your own computer, NVIDIA GRID is more tended towards remote servers. This service can be used with servers only. This service can only stream to NVIDIA's mobile shield devices and not any other PC or other mobile devices. Games which are optimised for NVIDIA GRID and which run on NVIDIA's servers can be streamed to mobile devices and nothing else. It's an experimental part by NVIDIA as they test their hardware and infrastructure.
4. OnLive:
OnLive is the service which innovated the idea of cloud gaming. It has changed their service as it offers OnLive CloudLift for $8 a month and this service lets you stream games which have been purchased on Steam and games are streamed to other devices from Onlive's servers. You can use the existing Steam library and shift between playing games on PCs and then you can stream them over the Internet. It's highly usable as it has Steam integration and it allows Steam in-home streaming too.
5. PlayStation Now:
This is a game-streaming service by Sony which has been developed by Gaikai's technology for browser-based games. Sony acquired Gaikai which used to be a cloud game streaming company. Now Sony uses the game-streaming technology for PlayStation Now which can stream certain PlayStation 3 games to PlayStation 4, 3, Vita and TV devices. PlayStation 3 games can also be streamed on modern PlayStation 4 console.
This is one of the most handy game streaming services as it's built into Steam. This solution is not meant only for Steam games but other PC games too. This feature was designed keeping Steam OS in mind for Steam Machines and with this service you can stream games from your Windows gaming PC to Steam Machine, which runs on Linux-based Steam OS in another room. You can also stream games to a lightweight box which is connected to your television. Steam OS is not even required for the same all the time. Enable Steam in-home streaming on Windows PC and start streaming games to any Windows, Mac or Linux PC. You can even run the game on your PC and play it on another lightweight laptop. It can be used on local network only.
2. NVIDIA GameStream:
There is a GameStream feature in NVIDIA which is offered by GeForce Experience application for modern NVIDIA GeForce graphics hardware. If there is appropriate hardware in your system, then open the GeForce Experience application, click GameStream and then use the options to set it up. There is a major drawback though. NVIDIA GameStream can only stream to NVIDIA Shield Portable and NVIDIA Shield Tablet devices. No other computer can be used in this case and not any other mobile device too, even though there is NVIDIA graphics hardware in the devices. It can stream games over the Internet, but there is no assurance over how it works actually. It depends on the Internet connections on both ends.
3. NVIDIA GRID:
NVIDIA GameStream is focused on streaming games from your own computer, NVIDIA GRID is more tended towards remote servers. This service can be used with servers only. This service can only stream to NVIDIA's mobile shield devices and not any other PC or other mobile devices. Games which are optimised for NVIDIA GRID and which run on NVIDIA's servers can be streamed to mobile devices and nothing else. It's an experimental part by NVIDIA as they test their hardware and infrastructure.
4. OnLive:
OnLive is the service which innovated the idea of cloud gaming. It has changed their service as it offers OnLive CloudLift for $8 a month and this service lets you stream games which have been purchased on Steam and games are streamed to other devices from Onlive's servers. You can use the existing Steam library and shift between playing games on PCs and then you can stream them over the Internet. It's highly usable as it has Steam integration and it allows Steam in-home streaming too.
5. PlayStation Now:
This is a game-streaming service by Sony which has been developed by Gaikai's technology for browser-based games. Sony acquired Gaikai which used to be a cloud game streaming company. Now Sony uses the game-streaming technology for PlayStation Now which can stream certain PlayStation 3 games to PlayStation 4, 3, Vita and TV devices. PlayStation 3 games can also be streamed on modern PlayStation 4 console.
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