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Parsec puts life into cloud gaming with Party Finder

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Parsec is one of a handful of companies trying to make real cloud gaming happen. It has a low-latency, 60 frames per second interactive game streaming service that allows PC gamers to play their games remotely. And earlier this month, it launched Party Finder, which allows customers to find other people to play games with via a click of a button.

Cloud gaming suffered a black eye when OnLive crashed in 2012, and shut down in 2015. But each new entrant says they have learned from OnLive’s problems, and Parsec is one of the startups that is offering a variation on the theme, as you can download its software and host cloud games on your own computer.

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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.