Amazon's Luna Cloud Gaming Service Officially Launches In the US (engadget.com) 6
A year and a half later, Amazon's Luna cloud gaming service has formally launched in the U.S. for Android, iOS, Chrome OS, macOS and Windows. Engadget reports: The core Luna+ service with over 100 games will normally cost $10 per month, with the kid-friendly Family Channel and Ubisoft+ Channels available for a respective $6 and $18 per month. Amazon hopes to reel in newcomers by dropping the monthly fees of Luna+ and the Family channel to $6 and $3 for anyone who signs up during March. Existing users just have to maintain their subscriptions to lock in that pricing.
The official debut comes alongside some new channels. A Prime Gaming channel, as the name implies, gives Amazon Prime members a free, rotating mix of games. The March selection will include titles like Devil May Cry 5 and Flashback. Pay $5 per month for the Retro Channel and you'll get Capcom and SNK classics like Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting and Metal Slug 3, while a similar outlay for the Jackbox Games Channel provides access to all eight Jackbox Party Pack titles. Luna's latest update also makes it simpler to stream gameplay from a Fire TV device, Mac or Windows PC on Twitch.
The official debut comes alongside some new channels. A Prime Gaming channel, as the name implies, gives Amazon Prime members a free, rotating mix of games. The March selection will include titles like Devil May Cry 5 and Flashback. Pay $5 per month for the Retro Channel and you'll get Capcom and SNK classics like Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting and Metal Slug 3, while a similar outlay for the Jackbox Games Channel provides access to all eight Jackbox Party Pack titles. Luna's latest update also makes it simpler to stream gameplay from a Fire TV device, Mac or Windows PC on Twitch.
Yeah it's not worth it. (Score:2)
However if GeForce Now could get to the point that 80% of my steam and epic games were available, thats a different story. Luna and Stadia are not worth it. You have bascially rebuy games you already have to play them. At least with GeForce Now you can play some of your games and maybe eventually all of them. 28 of my steam games are available and 3 epic games.
Refused to Work on Linux (Score:2)
I got to muck around with it about a year ago. Although AMZN would much prefer you buy a Fire TV Cube or other similar gadget on which to play Luna, I played on a Linux PC through the browser interface.
It worked about as well as you would expect -- latency varied from significant to terrible, making twitch games virtually unplayable. They also had a really long interval between B-frames so, if the video stream glitched, you'd be looking at animated garbage for what felt like several minutes until the ne
Luna For macOS ? noooo (Score:1)
Re: (Score:2)
This! I have a stadia controller with a wired connection. It works with anything and everything on Windows - like Steam, stand alone games, emulators, even Discord will recognize button presses for hotkey bindings.
Amazons garbage says it doesn't exist. Same with the PS3 controller hooked up through software that makes everything think it is a xbox controller. Luna doesn't even see it, even though xbox controllers are supposed to be supported. When searching I see it's only Windows that it doesn't recognize,
Latency (Score:2)