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Online gaming has been coming; has it arrived?

We’re working remotely, playing remotely, and changing the computer landscape. Most digital gaming is an all or nothing proposition: you win, you lose and you blame your equipment. Now, some kinds of gaming are getting to be even more like real life. It’s still win and lose but people will be blaming some entity in the cloud instead of a ...

Kathleen Maher

We’re working remotely, playing remotely, and changing the computer landscape. Most digital gaming is an all or nothing proposition: you win, you lose and you blame your equipment. Now, some kinds of gaming are getting to be even more like real life. It’s still win and lose but people will be blaming some entity in the cloud instead of a controller or a graphics card. Call it god, call it Google. After some early and painful starts, cloud-based game streaming is established and satisfying many gamers with its promise of gameing anywhere, on anything. As one player says, Stadia has
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