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Shadow hands-on preview — The Ghost to bring cloud gaming to your TV or laptops

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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If you think that renting a high-end gaming computer for $50 a month is a good deal, then the Shadow Ghost is something you should consider. France-based Shadow is launching its Ghost cloud gaming device today so that gamers can play high-end computer games on TVs, laptops, or even mobile devices.

Formerly known as Blade, the Shadow company has built the Ghost so that a game runs in its data centers on high-end Nvidia graphics hardware and the video images are sent to your computer via broadband so that they can be displayed on just about any device.

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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.