{"id":263949,"date":"2018-06-11T08:21:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T06:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=263949"},"modified":"2018-06-11T08:24:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T06:24:24","slug":"microsoft-building-a-game-streaming-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/263949-microsoft-building-a-game-streaming-service.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft building a game streaming service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announced at E3 that it is working on a game streaming service that will let users play games at console quality on any device.<\/p>\n<p>The company is also developing the architecture for the next Xbox consoles, said the\u00a0executive president of gaming at Microsoft,\u00a0Phil Spencer.<\/p>\n<p>Its announcement comes on the heels of a similar announcement from game publisher Electronic Arts, which runs the online PC game marketplace Origin.<\/p>\n<p>EA was demonstrating its &#8220;cloud gaming&#8221; system at E3.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft and E3 are entering a hotly-contested space with companies like Sony, GameFly, and Shadow &#8211; which offer cloud gaming services at a variety of prices.<\/p>\n<p>Graphics hardware giant Nvidia is also testing its cloud gaming platform, GeForce Now.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/263249-what-developers-think-of-microsoft-buying-github.html\">What developers think of Microsoft buying GitHub<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is working on a game streaming service that will let users play on any device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":242088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25575,123,2682],"class_list":["post-263949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-electronic-arts-ea","tag-microsoft","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263967,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263949\/revisions\/263967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}