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Rumor: PlayStation 5 Cloud Game Streaming Incoming?
PlayStation Plus has a cloud gaming service that we don’t discuss as often here at Cloud Dosage as some other services. This is because the service can only be used on PlayStation consoles themselves or on a Windows app and games are from the PS3/PS4 collection. This former point makes the service much less generally […]
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Stadia to Unlock Bluetooth Capabilities of the Stadia Controller Next Week – Gives Us One Last Game
In a show of good faith, Google has done what a lot of folks were hoping they’d do – they’ve developed a standalone tool that will unlock the Bluetooth capabilities of your Stadia Controllers! Here is the tweet: With both the game and hardware purchase refunds having largely completed at this point, everyone who purchased […]
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Boosteroid Passed 3 Million Active Users – 18 Datacenters
Boosteroid is one of the cloud gaming services that we’ve seen grow significantly over the past year in terms of their reach, device support and user-interest. This can be seen in a number of our stats that cover the service’s following on various social media networks as well as app downloads etc. But, we just […]
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THQ Nordic is in the House for GFN Thursday
It’s Thursday, and you know what that means – time for GeForce NOW news and games. This week, five new THQ Nordic titles are arriving on GeForce NOW. Destroy All Humans! and Destroy All Humans! 2 are favorites of ours here at Cloud Dosage. You play as an evil alien Crypto-137 who causes mayhem, destruction […]
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Rumor: Xbox Game Pass Friends and Family Could be Headed Stateside
Late last year, Xbox released a “Friends and Family” subscription option for Game Pass Ultimate in Ireland and Columbia. For an extra $5-$10 a month (will likely depend on location/currency), the plan allows you to add up to four (five including yourself) people to a Friends & Family subscription. Each will have their own separate Xbox account […]
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GeForce NOW Begins Using AV1 Codec and Promises Vastly Lower Latency with Reflex Tech
For years, the proprietary H.264 codec and the open VP9 codec dominated streaming video encoding/decoding. What a codec does is compress a video stream to enable high quality visuals at a lower data rate than raw uncompressed video. Generally speaking, the better/more-advanced the codec is, the better the visual quality is for the same data […]
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FIFA Returns to Boosteroid in the “Install and Play” Category
Good news for FIFA players looking to play the game in the cloud who were disappointed when the game seemingly left Boosteroid a few weeks ago. It’s back! FIFA 21, 22 and 23 are all again listed on the service! Boosteroid appears to have worked though issues related to the EA Origin to new EA […]
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AT&T and GeForce Now Team Up to Offer Customers Ultimate Tier for free for 6 Months
Update: This new promotion officially begins on January 19th. So, if you can’t successfully claim the Ultimate tier yet, try again after that date. If you are in the US and an AT&T subscriber of either a 5G mobile plan or a fiber home internet plan, we’ve got some news on a deal for you! […]
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Portal RTX Comes to GeForce Now Along With 20 Other Games for January
On the heels of its widely acclaimed CES announcements, GeForce Now is back for GFN Thursday touting three new games this week including the RTX remaster of Portal! ● Carrier Command 2 (Steam)● Project Hospital (Steam)● Portal with RTX (Steam) Also happening this week: the existing GFN title Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is now […]
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RTX 4080s To Hit GeForce NOW’s Renamed “Ultimate” Tier Starting this Month
In a recorded presentation for CES, NVIDIA announced a wide range of product updates, including some big news for GeForce Now fans. The biggest news is that the RTX 4080 GPUs will be available in the newly renamed “Ultimate” subscription tier starting this month and rolling out widely in the US and EU throughout the […]
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