Blade’s Shadow adds multiple pricing tiers for low-end and high-end cloud gaming

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 12, 2020
Updated June 18, 2025
4 min

Blade said its Shadow service is adding new tiers of pricing to its subscription model so that its cloud gaming customers can choose the plan that is right for them.

The service for this “supercharged gaming PC in the cloud” lets people play high-end games in good or high resolutions on just about any kind of hardware, even if that hardware is normally too underpowered to run the games, said Florian Giraud, head of strategy and growth at Blade, in an interview with GamesBeat. The Paris-based Blade said its Shadow company also raised a new round of funding from LG Electronics.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.