Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during a Google keynote address announcing a new video gaming streaming service named Stadia. (Stephen Lam/Reuters)Google made a big leap into interactive entertainment on Tuesday as it announced an online video gaming platform that the company says represents the future of play. The streaming games service, called Stadia, allows users to run video games on sophisticated hardware maintained remotely by Google while directly controlling the action from their own devices over an Internet connection. News reports have also suggested that Apple, Amazon and Verizon may be mulling a push into cloud gaming of their own. And Sprint recently said it is partnering with the cloud gaming firm Hatch Entertainment as part of its launch of 5G wireless services.

Source: Washington Post March 19, 2019 18:51 UTC