Steam, owned and operated by Valve Corporation, rivals Sony's PlayStation Network as the world's
biggest gaming service, with 67 million monthly active players versus Sony's 70 million.
Three of
the biggest gaming services on the planet have been down for parts of the weekend, with DDoS attacks hitting the servers of the PlayStation Network, Riot's League of Legends and Blizzard's Battle.net (affecting titles such as World of Warcraft and Hearthstone).
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big data, security, artificial intelligence, advertising,
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services.
While remaining closely involved with the traditional PC and mobile industries, the
gaming industry will draw from artificial intelligence, wearables, virtual reality,
big data, cloud
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Once a hallmark of classic
gaming, players have moved onto
bigger and more action packed games while the shmup exists quietly in arcades and direct download
services.
The OnLive cloud based
gaming service is definitely a
big plus for the Flyer which will make the HTC tablet the first mobile device to comes with the
gaming service.
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Santa Clause took down the two
biggest online
gaming services in the world so the families can get together for some holiday cheer.
It'll probably be more focused on maintaining the social media fervor that surrounds massive
gaming press events like E3, as well as supporting
bigger companies that use the
service to announce their products.
«The heart of any valuable
gaming service is delivering all the great content that players want, and the addition of Ubisoft's top PC titles on Origin, as well as EA's titles to Uplay, is a
big win for all of our players,» said Michael Blank, Vice President of Production for Origin at EA.
Despite a recent massive media push and the
biggest day one sales of a game ever, recent analysis by number - crunching social
gaming service Raptr indicates that Call of Duty: Black Ops is only holding its own with old stalwarts Modern Warfare 2 and Halo: Reach in terms of online play - time.
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The
service paved the way for our
gaming landscape today where
big - budget multiplayer - only games are a very viable product.
While Steam is clearly the
biggest download
service for PC games, Green Man
Gaming has quickly gained fans through it's very aggressive pricing and discounts.
One of the
bigger news items coming out of the Game Developers Conference this week is the reveal of OnLive, a new
gaming service that wants to make our beloved consoles obsolete.
Just yesterday, a report surfaced regarding
Big Fish Games» plans to launch a subscription - based
gaming service on the iPad.
There are other cloud
gaming services, but Grid may represent the
biggest push into the space so far.
The Shield console continues that progress by serving up some of some of the year's
biggest games either locally or through Nvidia's cloud
gaming service, Grid.
«PUBG» is so popular that it has become the most actively played game on Steam, which is a
big deal, considering that the Valve - owned PC
gaming service is huge, with more than 200 million users and thousands of available games.
Amazon's recent acquisition of the Twitch
gaming service, and subsequent introduction of Twitch Prime, bodes well for those of you into
gaming (or with video game fans in your household) as it gives you access to two
big benefits.
The
biggest among them is Twitch: for whatever reason,
gaming's
biggest online streaming
service has yet to make the switch from Flash to HTML5.
Sony's
biggest rival in the video game industry, Microsoft, currently does not have a set - top box device in the market, or any form of remote play
service to work with its Xbox
gaming console.