As the dream of cloud-based gaming comes closer to being a reality, Valve has gained new enthusiasm for the idea of players accessing their bountiful Steam libraries while being away from their PC’s. While the company swiftly killed off production of the original Steam Link box and controller in November of 2018, they have been working in secret on a software approach towards the same concept in the form of Steam Link Anywhere.
The idea of this application is that your stunning, gaming PC will have the capacity to become your very own streaming machine. By installing the Steam Link Anywhere app onto you Android, Raspberry Pi or even Steam Link device, you might soon have remote access to any game installed in your Steam client.
The experience of accessing the pride of your AAA collection will, of course, depend heavily on how high the bandwidth is on both your PC, and on the device you intend to stream from. The app is still officially in beta, but you can try out the service by signing up on the Steam Store.
Until, Apple and Steam can work around certain restrictions with the security framework of iOS, there is unfortunately no iOS Store version of the app as of yet.
Sources: The Verge, Tech Crunch
Pieter hails all the way from the tip of southern Africa and suffers from serious PC technophilia. Therapists say it is incurable. Now he has to remind himself constantly that gaming doesn’t count as a religion even if DRM is the devil. Thankfully, writing reviews sometimes helps with the worst symptoms.
You know what i want? a steam version of twitch, fck twitch
doesn’t that exist already?
it’s called steam broadcast
Talking of Twitch streaming, did you catch that news story of EA having paid a guy $1 million to host a stream of him playing Apex Legends and posting a few tweets about it over a period of 12 days?
doesnt that game get enough traction?
That occurred during the game’s launch window. The gaming media portrayed its launch as having seemingly come out of nowhere presumably due to EA having not paid them to advertise it.
In reality EA were amusingly ignoring legacy media while redirecting the marketing budget to new media. I’m surprised we haven’t seen much bellyaching and salty tears from IGN, Gamespot, Polygon, et al.
Whose dream? Publishers? So they can hold you over the fire by eventualy making games streaming only and charging you $20 + a month to access them?
No one wants that. Only casuals who don’t buy games in the first place because they aren’t gamers.
For in home streaming this is completely pointless. The Steam Link app on your SmartTV already works perfectly fine and if you somehow have a TV older than 2010, its a better option to just literally plug a PC into your TV anyway.
If you need to game so desperately that you’re using this jankness on an Android instead of literally just using an emulator or Nvidia shield or something, you should re-evaluate your life. Not gaming at all is a better option than janky inferior gaming.
I hope they will bring the application to the nintendo switch,it would be great playing pc games on my switch while im lying in the bed 🙂
That is actually a great idea. Sadly, I think Nintendo doesn’t want that level of competition for their own store haha. Maybe towards the end of the Switch’s life cycle?
Also You have Stream to Phone (link) in new Adrenalin 2019 😀
-> https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/radeon-software-amdlink
https://youtu.be/ZHG3YKs3Su0
> Steam Link Anywhere
> no iOS version
Hehehe yes! I was wondering who else would notice this contradiction!