It seems that cloud gaming is making headlines once again. A recent viral post from LaurieWired argued that cloud gaming is “obviously more economically efficient than consumer-owned hardware". The logic? A $500 GPU sitting idle for most of its life has terrible cost per FLOP (floating-point operation) per hour efficiency (meaning you paid for lots of GPU power, but most of it sits unused most of the time) compared to datacenter servers shared across countless users. It’s an interesting take, and honestly, there is definitely some truth to it from a pure hardware utilization standpoint. However, that perspective entirely misses […]

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Spotted by The Verge, Brazilian regulator Tecnoblog has seemingly leaked a new Xbox controller made specifically for Xbox Cloud Gaming. Images of the new controller were published on Tecnoblog, and while it's still unclear as to when this controller could hit the market, not only does it look like it'll be ready for launch soon, but it also looks like Xbox took a page or two from 8BitDo's book of controller making. The face of the new gamepad and its finish are both reminiscent of 8BitDo's style of controller, so much so that when it is officially revealed, it may […]

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