Author: Jack Deslippe
Jack Deslippe is an HPC professional with a PhD in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley. As a hobby, he is passionate about consumer technology and Cloud Gaming in particular. He volunteers as an editor for Cloud Dosage in his spare time. See the games Jack is Playing at ExoPhase. Like his content? You can follow Jack on Threads: @jackdeslippe and Buy Jack a Beer.
The Amazon Luna Library Will be Decimated in December
Update: A handful of games listed have gotten a reprieve (see those stricken out) and additional games have been removed including: A little over a week ago, we reported on a worrying trend in that Amazon Luna was losing a lot of games – a lot more than it was getting. Unfortunately, it now looks […]
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Evil West and Ship of Fools are Live on GeForce Now
GeForce Now has added two more games to its catalog of cloud streamable titles this week. The first is a game we mentioned as coming back at the beginning of the month, Evil West. Evil West Platform: Steam A dark menace consumes the Old West. In solo or coop, fight with style in visceral, explosive […]
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The Physics and Physiology of Cloud Gaming
I have often witnessed conversations online where gamers dismiss Cloud Gaming (and various platforms/services) because the lag/latency must surely be unbearable… because… “Physics.” Apparently, the poor blundering fools behind these services just forgot to check the fundamental laws of the universe, which make cloud gaming infeasible, before they launched their products. I don’t often do […]
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Cloud Gaming Has a Home on Mastodon
A number of amazing community members (kudos to m3t4lw01f and Granite) have come together to create a cloud gaming Mastodon server – gaminginthe.cloud! Mastodon is an open, federated social platform. It looks and feels a lot like twitter, but it is fundamentally de-centralized – like email. Your account is based on both a username and […]
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GeForce Now Adds 11 Games This Week + 15 More Already Planned For November
It’s Thursday! So, that must mean it is time for another GFN Thursday blog post! This week, the hard working crew over at NVIDIA have announced that 11 new games will be joining the catalog this week. And, they are teasing 15 additional games coming throughout November! First up, here are the 11 games coming […]
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The Best Alternatives to Stadia
Unfortunately, Google recently announced that Google Stadia will close it doors on January 18, 2023. Stadia is one of the most impressive cloud streaming services available from a technology point of view and has garnered a passionate following. Stadia is also one of the few cloud streaming services that can be described as a platform […]
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GeForce Now Adds 12 New Titles
UPDATE – Oct 28 2022: Geforce Now team has announced that Star Ocean: The Devine Force will no longer be releasing on the platform Oct 27th 2022. According to an update, they are “… actively working with the game’s publisher to bring the game to our service as soon as possible.“ GeForce Now releases games […]
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Amazon Fire TV adds a Games Section, Highlights Luna
The Amazon Fire TV team announced today that they will be adding a new Games section to their TV platform. The section will appear alongside other sections like “Movies”, “TV” and Genres like “Documentaries.” The section (at least for now) will highlight games from the Fire TV Android app store as well as cloud games […]
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Project Keystone is No More – Canceled!
It had been rumored (including by the Xbox team themselves) for about year now that the Xbox team were working on an Xbox based Streaming dongle that would let you play Xbox Cloud Gaming and would compete with the likes of Roku, Chromecast (and other AndroidTV devices), Fire TV and Apple TV. It looks like […]
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The Brilliance and Clunkiness of GeForce Now
I’ve been a long time (off and on) user of GeForce Now since the early days of the service on the original Shield TV – it was my first experience with cloud-gaming. And, I have always been impressed by the responsiveness and fidelity of the gameplay. The library of games is also very impressive. It […]
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