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.
Crunchyroll Offers Video Games, Just Don’t Expect Cloud Gaming
Crunchyroll, the popular anime streaming service, has offered a couple of video games for a little while as the service has tried to compete with Netflix and other streaming services. However, it doesn’t look like Crunchyroll is going to follow Netflix’s lead into cloud gaming. Let me explain. Crunchyroll Has Some Mobile Games: Crunchyroll currently […]
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Why Netflix’s Cloud Gaming Library Will Differ From Its Mobile Gaming Offerings
Netflix Games has been building out its offerings since late 2021. This has mainly included Netflix buying and building game studios, beta testing cloud video games, and releasing downloadable mobile games. However there are some notable issues Netflix is going to have to face as they move more of their mobile games into the cloud. […]
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Why Antstream Arcade Is Great Value For Retro Gamers
Antstream Arcade is a retro gaming-focused cloud gaming platform. It currently offers 1295 games from many classic game systems. In this editorial, I want to go over why retro gamers should check out Antstream Arcade to scratch their retro games itch. Antstream Arcade Won’t Cost You A Limb There is a saying about some retro […]
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Why Netflix Games Releasing Fewer Games Is A Good Thing
Netflix Games has almost 100 games available to all Netflix subscribers. However, so far in 2024, we’ve only seen six mobile games and one cloud game added to Netflix. That is an average of around two games per month, which is lower than in 2022 and 2023, where most months saw between three and four […]
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Why Netflix Games Is Less Dependent On Triple A Games
Triple AAA video games make up numerous of the video games that get published every year. This includes the likes of EA, Xbox Game Studios, PlayStation Studios, Ubisoft, and Take-Two Interactive to name a few. Cloud Gaming platforms have traditionally struggled to get support from these publishers. However, I want to talk about why Netflix […]
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Why Amazon Luna’s Strategy Shift Makes Sense
Amazon Luna first launched in the US in December 2020 (in “beta”). It left “beta” in 2022, followed by launches in the UK, Canada, Germany, Spain, Italy, and France over the course of 2023. Amazon Luna’s original business model focused on “channels” similar to Amazon Prime Video, where you could subscribe to select channels to […]
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The Big Question Around Amazon Luna’s GOG Partnership
Recently, at the time of writing this article, the news is still quite fresh as Amazon Luna looks to pivot away from its original “channels” method to a model more akin to Nvidia GeForce Now where Amazon Luna subscribers can play the games they own on either Ubisoft Connect or, sometime this year, GOG.com. The […]
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My Top 5 Cloud Games That I Keep Coming Back To
Cloud gaming has certainly shaken up the way I game. Since the days of Google Stadia (RIP), I find myself gaming more on mobile devices with my feet up on the sofa than I do on a console! The good thing is that as time has passed, cloud gaming is becoming a bigger part of […]
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Why I Am Cautiously Optimistic About The Future Of Antstream Arcade
Antstream Arcade the retro gaming cloud gaming service has added a mixed bag of news over the last few months with new games being added, old games being removed and a March Connect which gave us some news on future plans, so let’s go over why I am cautiously optimistic about the future of Antstream […]
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What Can Netflix Games Learn From Other Gaming Companies?
Netflix Games is still rather baby-faced when it comes to the gaming industry, as it only entered the industry in 2021. So, I figure that we should look at some of the failures we’ve seen with other game companies and why Netflix can avoid having similar issues and repeating history. Avoid Overhiring Like Other Publishers […]
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