The cloud gaming market is still far from widespread success, report GlobalData analysts. According to their estimates, in 2023, 184 million people, or 6% of all gamers, subscribed to cloud gaming services.

Associate professor from University College London Joost Rietveld sent a letter to the British regulator about the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. In it, the scientist explained why cloud gaming is not a separate market.

Omdia analysts spoke about the situation in the cloud gaming market. According to their data, in 2021 its turnover immediately tripled to $3.7 billion. Not least thanks to the official appearance of Xbox Cloud Gaming on consoles.

Omdia analysts shared their forecast regarding the cloud gaming market. According to their calculations, in 2021 gamers will spend $4 billion on such projects. For comparison, last year the market revenue was much more modest — $ 1.38 billion.

Russian officials have prepared a plan for the development of cloud gaming. According to their estimates, by 2030, the export of domestic services should grow to $160 million — 55 times more than it was in 2020. The Innovation Promotion Fund, which will allocate special grants, should help in this.

Facebook still managed to launch its cloud gaming service on iOS. Due to Apple restrictions, it still cannot be accessed through the App Store. Instead, users will have to run the games in a separate web application.Facebook’s cloud gaming service will run on iOS as a progressive web application (PWA).

Google intends to pay developers money depending on the number of gaming sessions in the paid cloud service Stadia Pro. However, not everyone in the industry has positively received this model. Some fear that it will force studios to create stretched games and artificially increase user engagement.The discussion arose against the background of the new Google Stadia strategy.

Google wants to attract more developers to Stadia. To do this, the company introduces a new commission system. Now the authors of the new games will pay Google only 15% of the first $3 million in revenue received on its cloud platform. However, there were some nuances.This became known at the Google for Games Developer summit.

Cloud gaming on Facebook is becoming more popular. The company reported that 1.5 million people use the service every month. The social network also shared plans for the development of this area and announced a partnership with Ubisoft.Assassin’s Creed Rebellion

By the end of this year, the cloud gaming market will cross the billion dollar milestone for the first time. That’s what Newzoo analysts think. According to their estimates, for the whole of 2021, such services should earn about $ 1.4 billion.

Rovio has announced the closure of its cloud mobile gaming Hatch. The developers of Angry Birds wanted to make it a “gaming Netflix”, but for several years it remained unprofitable.Gamasutra noticed that the company simply announced the closure of the project in a banner on the official website: “Hatch stopped working on December 31.

A new player has appeared in the cloud gaming market. Plex has introduced the Plex Arcade service, which allows you to play retro games from arcade machines by subscription.

MY.GAMES has announced the launch of an open beta testing of its cloud gaming service. You can use it for free, but to play at the maximum settings and in 4K resolution, you will have to subscribe.The MY.GAMES Cloud service, which was announced at the end of September, can already be used on the official website.

Facebook is entering the cloud gaming market. The company has launched its own free service focused not on AAA projects, but mainly on mobile games. At the same time, due to Apple restrictions, iOS users will be deprived of this feature.The launch of the cloud service was announced by Jason Rubin, Facebook’s vice president for games and co-founder of Naughty Dog studio.

Analysts from Juniper Research predict that the volume of the video game market will reach $217 billion in three years. The main drivers of growth will be cloud gaming, subscription services and mobile.Key points from the Juniper Research study

A new Newzoo study has shown the dynamics of the cloud gaming market. It is assumed that by the end of this year, revenue from such services will reach half a billion dollars. At the same time, this area still has a lot of problems that companies have yet to solve.General data and forecasts

Fortune Business Insights analysts are confident in the bright future of cloud gaming. They estimated the size of the cloud gaming market in 2018 and calculated its size by 2027.

Facebook has signed its interest in cloud gaming. It acquired the developer of cloud solutions PlayGiga.

Technical testing of Project Atlas starts on Wednesday. This is a cloud gaming service from Electronic Arts.