Nvidia has officially launched its play anywhere game service with the familiar-sounding name, GeForce Now. The “new” service has been evolving since 2013 when the company introduced Nvidia Grid in 2013 and developed its Shield remote gaming approach. All that technology has been collapsed into GeForce Now, with cloud services provided by Nvidia and partners. GeForce Now represents an alternative approach to other cloud … Read more
Dell spends billions of dollars on R&D—BILLIONS. R&D expenses were $4.4 billion for Fiscal 2018 and $2.6 billion for Fiscal 2017. With a budget like that, some interesting things can be done, and Dell is doing them. One of the areas the company has been exploring is gaming, and the Alienware group has come up with a handheld device … Read more
The publicity for a recent update of JPR’s TV Gaming Report included a headline predicting 20 million gamers will switch to streaming gaming. The headline achieved its goals and has received considerable comment. In response Ted and Jon have seen fit to defend their report. Ted began by making a list; it’s not in precise order of importance or relevance. … Read more
Although the economic conditions have improved across the board, the PC market is not growing. It remains flat, to decline. Why?
Oculus needs to avoid making a BIG mistake with the PC market
Having watched the Oculus Connect 5 keynote and seeing the follow-up coverage, I think Facebook definitely has some amazing innovations coming around the bend – well earned and hopefully well-publicized innovations. The hardware looks seamless and easy to adopt, there appears to be enough horsepower for half-decent VR experiences, and it does away with the confusion of mixing smartphones and … Read more
And next year you might be able to get one First announced, sort of, at E3 2017 (as the Ataribox), the Atari big brass came to San Francisco during GDC 2018 and showed a few reporters a mockup in the Marriott Marquis. We’re not exactly sure why they did that because they really didn’t have anything to show or say. … Read more
Google is allegedly building a game console If Google builds a game console, code named Yeti, as The Information has speculated and half a zillion others have echoed, it would be the fifth major game console in the market (after Sony PS4, Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and Ataribox), the question is will the company use AMD as 75% of the … Read more
