Choose your fighter in the game streaming battle royale: Google Stadia vs. GeForce Now vs. Project xCloud
Say goodbye to consoles—your games now live in the cloud. (Glenn Carstens-Peters / Unsplash /)People have been streaming music and movies for years now, so it’s no surprise that video games have joined the on-demand revolution with a growing number of services ready to beam gameplay right to your computer or television.Rather than your computer or console running games, remote servers (the cloud) handle the actual processing. As with services like Netflix or Spotify, content—a game’s visuals, in this case—is streamed to your phone, laptop, or TV screen, so you can enjoy high-resolution gaming action on devices that wouldn’t otherwise have the specs to cope.It sounds good in theory, but the main concern is lag. The extra milliseconds it takes for your commands to enter the cloud, and their effect to register, can really mess with your performance—especially when you only have a moment to take that headshot or make...