Stream games with these Google Stadia alternatives

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Stadia

Google Stadia’s way to stream games may prove to be a rising tide that lifts all boats, a universally enjoyed boon to streaming services everywhere. But while its lumbering figure wading onto the scene has already done quite a bit for validating cloud gaming, it won’t be available to all until 2020. Not to worry, Google’s arrival on the scene has not deterred its numerous rivals. If anything Google’s fiscal might has spurred many of these competing services out into the open to fight for your attention.

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Parsec

Parsec has become a well-known name in the burgeoning game streaming arena since it was founded in 2016 – and for good reason. The service offers one of the smoothest experiences around, which the company attributes to its native streamer code built upon popular and fast encoders. It’s easy to use too. If you want a friend to join you, even in a local co-op game, all you have to do is send an invite to a friend through the app or via a direct link, and once Parsec’s installed on their machine, they can play alongside you as if you’re both in the room together.

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Geforce Now

But while GeForce Now utilises its own servers and not your home PC, it allows you to verify your games across popular distribution platforms. That means you can stream games from your own library, but you can also net the benefits of a centrally-located, always on, uber-connected datacentre. The only downside is not all games are supported by GeForce Now. As of today, there are some 400 games supported on the platform, but it’s still technically in beta – hence why it’s free for the time being.

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Shadow

The Shadow cloud gaming model is about to be updated, and it will make it quite the formidable foe. For the basic monthly investment of £13, you gain access to a timeshare comprised of an Intel Xeon CPU, an Nvidia GTX 1080 equivalent graphics card, 12GB of DDR4, a 256GB SSD, and an internet connection that’ll make you weep in awe. It’s 1Gbps, so you absolutely don’t need to fret about deleting titles only to reinstall them at a later date.

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Steam Link

Valve has been slowing creeping into the streaming market with its Steam Link Anywhere program, now simply called Steam Link. It’s largely flown under the radar since launch, probably due to the fact there are only a couple of Steam support pages regarding it, which are light on the details, and little to no discernible effort to spread the good word of what it does. But hey, it does indeed exist. That we know for sure.

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Moonlight-Stream.org

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Rainway

In a similar vein to Google Stadia, Rainway allows you to host access your gaming PCs library of games across the internet via basically any browser. It claims to have an ultra-low delay for streaming, based on the Pulsar Engine, and can drive 1080p60 streams with low latency.

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Playstation Now

We bring up PlayStation Now for one very specific reason: it could be about to get a whole lot better.

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