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as satisfying as it is to piece together a shiny new gaming PC or unwrap a lovely new console on Christmas morning there's no denying how convenient it would be to be able to just load up and play your games from anywhere even if you're using a system that isn't all that powerful and all those simple browser games have been around for a long time remember addicting games.com a Miniclip running anything more immersive or powerful has typically required some kind of dedicated hardware but now there are a number of services that are trying to alleviate the load that your computer has to handle by streaming games directly to you that is to say that most of the computationally intensive work is done on a server somewhere far away and then the completed rendered frames are delivered to your PC via the internet and with rising internet speeds and games taking up more and more space on your computer's localstorage game streaming is becoming an increasingly crowded marketplace especially with google announcing of their new streaming service called stadia which will work with nothing more than a browser or a smart TV an internet connection and then optionally Google's own game controller but as much buzz as there's been around it there are a few things that we'd like to see from stadia to help propel game streaming more to the forefront first off is of course the elephant in the room latency for obvious reasons when you're playing a game you expect something to happen on the screen as soon as you press a button or click your mouse and while this is basically never an issue if you're gaming on a local machine it's a real concern if you're expecting a server hundreds of miles away to respond instantly to you moving a targeting reticle now Google is hoping to mitigate the latency issues that have plagued other streaming services part of the solution will probably come from the fact that they just have more cloud infrastructure I mean think about it it's freaking Google so the fact that they have more servers in more places should help to reduce both ping time inherently the latency of your connection so like stadia gamer might be connecting to a server 50 miles away instead of one that is 500 miles away hopefully this will keep games from lagging out but another major hurdle is going to be image quality and I don't mean to say that Google is you know gonna be using weak graphics cards to render stadia games in fact they're apparently using arrays of custom AMD Radeon chips that sound pretty freakin powerful the issue though is that like the vast majority of digital video online the rendered frames will almost certainly need to be compressed before they're sent across the internet so that a standard connection actually has any hope of handling them so that means there could be some degradation in quality by the time they hit your screen now Google is expecting a 25 megabit home internet connection to be good enough to stream games at 4k resolution 60 frames per second and that's a speed that's certainly within reach of many users but in order to keep the game from lagging well 25 megabit 4k 60 the image quality may not be as good as some gamers would like so we're gonna have to see if google has a solution to this issue in the works that said all the tech in the world isn't gonna matter unless it's actually easy to access the games that people want to play and it's still a bit of an open question as to how libraries are going to be handled on stadia now PlayStation now Sony streaming offering only offers a rotating list of games so it's never clear if you can rely on a certain title being on the platform for too long GeForce now from Nvidia only supports certain games from Steam you play an battlenet and has been in an invite-only beta from very long time and blade while fairly slick has a fairly expensive monthly fee with the amount of storage and connectivity in Google's Arsenal however the hope is that stadia will not only have a large library of games to pick from at a reasonable price be it on a cart or by subscription but that it will also give people the ability to bring their own games in and run them off of Google servers or at least grin access to those same titles so that gamers won't have to pay again for a game that they already own one thing standing in the way though is the fact that unlike PlayStation now or GeForce now where games will run just natively as is on the server's stadia is an entirely new platform built on Linux meaning that many titles will have to be ported over in order to work and game ports take both time and resources to do properly you can actually learn more about that up here what that means in a nutshell though is that it's possible that this issue will affect what kinds of games will be available as well as which previously owned games users will be able to bring to the service and of course we'd also like to see streaming platforms other than YouTube get supported it's an open question at this time as to whether stadia will allow gamers to stream to twitch since it's in direct competition with YouTube which is of course owned by Google but to be fair there are some cool YouTube centric features in the works including the ability for a stadia user to start playing the game being streamed with the click of a button or even join the streamers game even with all these questions yet to be answered though it's certainly exciting for an absolute Titan of cloud computing like Google to finally throw its hat into the streaming ring my only hope is that it's not so good that people will just stop building gaming rigs altogether otherwise we're gonna run out of video ideas pretty quickly speaking of streaming things over the Internet check out private Internet access VPN PIAA hides your true IP address and allows you to bypass to your restrictions and censorship by making you appear as though you're connecting from somewhere else and what's cool is you can use it on up 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