{"id":123210,"date":"2018-01-31T23:09:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T21:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=123210"},"modified":"2018-10-10T08:44:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T06:44:04","slug":"microsoft-launches-gaming-service-for-those-without-an-xbox-or-powerful-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/123210-microsoft-launches-gaming-service-for-those-without-an-xbox-or-powerful-pc","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft launches gaming service for those without an Xbox or powerful PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has unveiled a new gaming streaming service aimed at users who do not have powerful hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/08\/project-xcloud-gaming-with-you-at-the-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Project xCloud<\/strong><\/a>, it will work similarly to on-demand content services \u2013 letting users game anywhere on any screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProject xCloud\u2019s state-of-the-art global game-streaming technology will offer you the freedom to play on the device you want without being locked to a particular device,\u201d said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Public\u00a0trials of the service will start in 2019, and will be compatible with thousands of games thanks to\u00a0custom hardware in Microsoft\u2019s data centres. Current tests run on smartphones and tablets linked to an Xbox controller.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve architected a new customisable blade that can host the component parts of multiple Xbox One consoles, as well as the associated infrastructure supporting it. We will scale those custom blades in data centers across Azure regions over time,\u201d said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>The company has\u00a054 Azure regions and services available in 140 countries, it added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Azure-regions.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-123211\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Azure-regions-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Azure regions\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/123209-how-to-get-your-deleted-files-back-after-windows-10-update.html\">How to get your deleted files back after Windows 10 update<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has unveiled a new gaming streaming service aimed at users who do not have powerful hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":106593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[91,243,25664],"class_list":["post-123210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-xbox","tag-microsoft","tag-xbox-2","tag-xcloud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}