Netflix won’t stream real games, but EA, Google, and Microsoft will
The tech world was buzzing today with a report that Netflix will stream Telltale Games’ Minecraft: Story Mode — an initiative that looked like the video subscription...
The emerging legal battle over video game streaming rights
Esports advertisers, consumers, brands, investors, and athletes are congregating around streaming game content, competing for the revenue it generates. Juniper Research reports that esports...
Hulu shares Valve’s sentiments on VR: ‘We just want to learn’
Hulu executive Ben Smith said that the video-streaming service “just wants to learn” as it ramps up its virtual reality push. That comment, given during...
Sony tries to trademark Let’s Play and pisses off the Internet
In the video game industry, it doesn’t take a lot to piss off your entire fan base. And Sony is about to re-learn this...
New Apple TV beats Roku at its own game
The 4th generation Apple TV, with its app-based interface and an all-new touch-sensitive and voice-activated remote control takes a surprising number of pages out of Roku’s playbook. The question is, does it improve on--and ultimately beat--the Roku 3 as a smart TV experience?
Watch out Amazon, China is launching a Twitch rival called Panda TV
With China’s ecommerce giant Alibaba last week trialling its own live-streaming video service to take on Netflix, it seems that a perhaps equally large story...
Razer announces Forge TV, a $100 Android-based microconsole that streams PC games
Razor makes a move for the living room with a tiny new console.
Wikipad: The company (and tablet) that is bringing console gaming to Android part 2 (exclusive)
In part two of our interview with Wikipad's James Bower and Fraser Townley, we learn more about this new Android tablet/game console and how they view the market, Windows 8, and Ouya.
Cloud gaming service OnLive offers crazy discounts this Thanksgiving weekend
The pioneering on-demand cloud gaming service, OnLive, is offering all users a free five-day rental of both Homefront and Red Faction: Armageddon during its...
Netflix’s Qwikster game rentals may have short shelf life, thanks to cloud gaming
Netflix today spun off its mail-order DVD business into a new service called Qwikster, which will include mail-order video game rentals. Given Netflix’s immense...