{"id":113720,"date":"2020-09-26T15:55:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T14:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?post_type=news&p=113720"},"modified":"2024-02-24T14:07:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T14:07:22","slug":"amazon-luna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/uncategorized\/amazon-luna\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Luna announced: New game streaming service"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is not yet known when Amazon Luna will be launched.\u00a0But when the game streaming service is available, it will come to PC, Mac, Fire TV, iPhone and iPad (via web apps).\u00a0An Android version is also planned later.\u00a0Gamers in the United States can already\u00a0<\/span>sign up for a trial period<\/span><\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0Incidentally, this is the\u00a0<\/span>Tempo<\/span><\/strong> service\u00a0, about which rumors suddenly appeared last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, it has been announced that when the game streaming service will be available, it will initially cost $ 5.99 per month.\u00a0That will then be the introductory price during the early access phase.\u00a0With that subscription you get access to so-called Luna Plus games (probably games that you get with a subscription, comparable to Google Stadia Pro), which can be played on two devices at the same time.\u00a0Some games will soon be available in 4k and 60 fps, but that does not apply to all titles.\u00a0The underlying technology is, of course, Amazon Web Services.<\/span><\/p>\n

Amazon also says that Amazon Luna will soon offer more than a hundred games.\u00a0Launch titles include Resident Evil 7, Control, Panzer Dragoon, A Plague Tale: Innocence, The Surge 2, Yooka-Laylee, GRID, Abzu and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons.\u00a0More titles will appear over time after launch.\u00a0Amazon has also partnered with Ubisoft for a dedicated game channel.\u00a0This is how the company describes it:<\/span><\/p>\n

Players who subscribe to this channel will have access to their favorite Ubisoft titles in up to 4K resolution, mobile gameplay, and access to new titles when the channel launches like\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Assassins Creed Valhalla, Far Cry 6<\/span><\/em>\u00a0, and Immortals\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Fenyx Rising<\/span><\/em>\u00a0\u00a0the same day they release .\u00a0This is the first of multiple Luna game channels in development, where customers can play games from their favorite publishers and genres.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So it seems that Luna Plus is also a channel that you pay for.\u00a0And if you then want to play the titles of Ubisoft, you may have to take out a separate subscription.\u00a0But that’s speculation on our part.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Integration with Twitch<\/span><\/h2>\n

There is also an integration with the live streaming service Twitch, another important Amazon product.\u00a0Within Amazon Luna you will soon be able to immediately see who is streaming the game in question.\u00a0The other way around, there is also an integration: if you watch someone streaming, you can start the game directly from Twitch.\u00a0You play the games with a keyboard and mouse or a bluetooth controller.\u00a0And Amazon has also presented its own Luna controller with Amazon Alexa on board.<\/span><\/p>\n

You connect the controller via WiFi, because according to Amazon, that provides better performance.\u00a0<\/span>The controller is in direct connection with the servers, which means it will soon be possible for everyone to switch screens at lightning speed (just as is now possible with Google Stadia).\u00a0<\/span>We now have to wait and see when Amazon Luna will come to the Netherlands.\u00a0<\/span>But for now, we are dealing with three major game streaming services: Amazon Luna, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and Google Stadia.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is not yet known when Amazon Luna will be launched.\u00a0But when the game streaming service is available, it will come to PC, Mac, Fire TV, iPhone and iPad (via web apps).\u00a0An Android version is also planned later.\u00a0Gamers in the United States can already\u00a0sign up for a trial period\u00a0.\u00a0Incidentally, this is the\u00a0Tempo service\u00a0, about which […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-113720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}