Cloud Gaming Editorials
This is the subsection of Cloud Dosage for editorials from our staff and outside contributors. These represent opinion pieces on the current state and future of Cloud Gaming technology, services, games and more.
Microsoft and Sony Share Their Thoughts on Cloud Gaming
In the recent FTC vs. Microsoft hearings, the future of cloud gaming took center stage. With Xbox chief Phil Spencer and Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan offering their perspectives. Their comments revealed two distinct visions for the future of this technology. Highlighting the divergent paths these industry giants are taking. Xbox, under Phil Spencer’s […]
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Top Games To Play on Xbox Cloud Gaming
Xbox Cloud gaming allows you to play hundreds of console, or PC, titles across a range of devices at no extra cost other than your Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Membership. You can even play supported free-to-play titles such as Fortnite at no cost at all – i.e. you don’t even need a subscription or an […]
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Cloud Gaming & Me
My general history with video games is relatively straightforward. I have been a gamer since I was able to hold a controller! My first console was the SEGA Master System, and from there, I have progressed with console generations, up until our current gen where I own an Xbox Series X and a PlayStation 5. […]
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New Hope For Microsoft’s Activision Acquisition
Last Month, we reported on the news that the CMA had blocked Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. It was a concern for many, myself included, that other authorities and regulators around the world would follow the somewhat misguided views of the UK’s CMA. Thankfully, if today’s news is anything to go by, this doesn’t seem […]
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Your Cloud Gaming Experience Is Not “The” Cloud Gaming Experience
Cloud gaming is unlike any other form of gaming before it. A long time ago, in a place called The Eighties, if I were to go into an arcade and play Donkey Kong, and you were 100 miles away at the other end of the country playing the same title, our experience would be the […]
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The Console War has Become the Cloud War
Since the dawn of technology and it’s ability to produce video games, the console wars have been with us. It’s been a long and viscious battle that has now lasted a full three generations in my family. I fear my son will also grow up in this time of war, becoming a gaming man while […]
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Post Stadia Stress
During Stadia’s short three-year life span, I gamed more than I ever have at any other point in 35 years. This was due to the ease of access and ability to play anywhere on any screen. And although this is still possible with other cloud gaming platforms, I don’t game anywhere near as much. Why? […]
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Opinion: The CMA is Punishing Microsoft for Investing Early in Cloud Gaming
Editorial: By blocking the Microsoft Acquisition on the grounds of “Protecting Cloud Gaming”, the CMA is doing more harm than good for the cloud gaming space. Let me explain… Everyone here at Cloud Dosage shares a passion for one thing: cloud gaming. It is the raison d’etre for this site! But, we also all realize […]
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Microsoft’s Partnership Legitimizes Boosteroid as a Cloud Contender
Rapid Growth Microsoft’s new announcement of their 10-year partnership with Boosteroid is a giant boost (pun intended) to the cloud gaming service’s growth. Boosteroid has grown incredibly fast in the last few years and the new announcement suggests that growth could actually accelerating. It was only in January that Cloud Dosage reported Boosteroid had exceeded […]
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Why PS+ and Shadow Titles Aren’t Included in Our Cloud Games Catalog
Our cloud games catalog currently contains games available from GeForce NOW, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Blacknut, Utomik, Amazon Luna and Boosteroid’s “library” collection. However the catalog doesn’t currently include games from PlayStation Plus (PS+) Premium, Shadow, airgpu or Boosteroid’s “install” collection of games. Why is that? It isn’t a matter of laziness, although I wouldn’t blame […]
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