BlueStacks 4 has a new lightweight launcher.
BlueStacks 4 has a new lightweight launcher.
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BlueStacks 4 introduces faster emulator to play high-end mobile games on a PC

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 2 min

​BlueStacks has launched a new version of its mobile gaming platform, which uses virtualization technology that runs Android mobile apps on a PC.

BlueStacks 4 is eight times better in performance over the current flagship iOS and Android devices. And that should make the company’s 300 million users happy.

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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.