It wasn’t long ago that we saw companies pop up that would offer gamers a means to enjoy PC gaming without the need of the high-spec system. Services like OnLive would allow gamers to pay a subscription fee to have access to a wide catalog of PC video games which would stream the gameplay straight to your computer. While OnLive didn’t last, another company, LiquidSky, may pick up the pieces and continue with the same ideology.
LiquidSky acts similar to OnLive, essentially, gamers will pay a subscription fee to play a video game from their servers without having to worry about system specs of the actual video game itself. Instead, any AAA video game title would run smoothly on a low-spec PC or even mobile device, just as long as the internet connection was strong.
This service on paper looks good, but as mentioned, we’ve seen in the past such as OnLive attempt to bring out a similar service only to close shop. LiquidSky seems to have found a means to change some of the problems other companies had run into. Technology has changed to allow the company to rely on one graphics card to support over a hundred users. Likewise, latency and cost for subscription have been thought out carefully for a public launch.
One of the biggest issues gamers may have found when it came to other services was the lack of big name titles and new releases. When it comes to LiquidSky, gamers will be purchasing storage space and duration of time. This means, gamers can purchase a video game from any digital distribution portal such as Steam and Origin to use the LiquidSky service.
Today, thanks to a post made on PC Gamer, we’re getting word of the service receiving $4 million in funding through Samsung Global Innovation Center along with technology pioneers Scott McNealy and Bill Raduchel. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem that we’re any closer to a public release date.
As it stands right now the service is still in a private beta though we know that gamers can purchase a subscription to the service that can range from $15 per month which gives players 500GB of storage and eighty hours of gameplay, or $40 per month for 1TB of storage and unlimited play time.
