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A Vietnamese girl poses for photographs amidst the “The Parting of the Plastic Sea” art installation, made out of plastic straws by Canadian artist Benjamin Von Wong, at a mall in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday. “The Parting of the Plastic Sea” built with some 168,000 straws collected from streets around Vietnam, won the Guinness World Record for largest art installation made from plastic straws. — AFP With streaming move, Google eyes future of gaming oogle is looking to transform and devices from televisions to smart- ities are enabling “disruptive technologies” internet-age game play, with an phones has surged and streaming technolo- such as streaming that can change the way Gexpected launch of a streaming gy has advanced, providing tools to break games are created as well as played, service which uses the tech blockbuster titles from confines of consoles according to . While streaming giant’s power in the internet cloud. or personal computers. Google, whose game services might nibble at consoles Expected Tuesday is the debut of a YouTube video service operates an eSports sales, they are more likely to broaden the ramped-up version of a cloud gaming platform for viewing game competitions, audience of players to anyone with an platform Google tested recently in part- will be entering a sector with other power- internet connection, according to analysts. nership with Ubisoft. ful competitors including Sony and A video clip teasing a keynote presen- . tation at an annual Game Developers Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella Conference in San Francisco invites peo- said late last year that a keenly anticipated ple to “Gather around as we unveil “xCloud” streaming service was in “early Google’s vision for the future of gaming.” days.” Microsoft’s consoles and The clip cycles through an accelerating games unit are big business for the collage of scenes one might find in video Redmond, Washington-based technology games, but says nothing about what titan, which has been adapting to modern Google will announce at the event, which lifestyles in which software is hosted as a In this file photo Videogamers play on an alpha version of French video game will be live-streamed at YouTube. Google service online and tapped into using developer Ubisoft’s last installment of “Assassin’s Creed”, titled “Assassin’s collaborated with French video game whichever gadgets people prefer. Video Creed Syndicate”. colossus Ubisoft to use the hit “Assassin’s game titan also has laid out Creed” franchise to test “Project Stream” a vision of streaming video games technology for hosting the kind of quick, enhanced with artificial intelligence to cre- seamless play powered by in-home con- ate “living, breathing worlds that constantly soles as an online service. evolve.” A select number of people in the US Bigger world of play were able to play “Assassin’s Creed Wedbush Securities analyst Michael The US generated Ted Price introduces the Odyssey” streamed to Chrome browsers on Pachter sees Amazon, Apple and Google as a record $43.4 billion in revenue in 2018, up coming release of the game desktop or laptop computers. A recently potential big players in the space given 18 percent from the prior year, according to ‘Sunset Overdrive’ at the uncovered patent that Google filed for a huge investments they have made in data data released by the Entertainment Xbox media briefing where video game controller hinted that the tech centers that provide cloud services to mil- Software Association (ESA) and NPD new games were introduced firm might be planning to release its own lions of people. Amazon, a major cloud Group. “Console, PC, and mobile platforms on the eve of the annual console and controller to go along with a operator through its Amazon Web Services, all saw significant growth, while developing video game extravaganza in streaming service. also owns popular game play-streaming portions of the market like subscription and Los Angeles, California. service . Console quality video game streaming services gave us a peek into a — AFP photos ‘xCloud’ on horizon play streamed online as a service, hosted future full of possibilities for the industry Video games are following television on servers in the internet cloud, faces chal- and gamers,” NPD analyst Mat Piscatella and music into the cloud, with console- lenges including moving data quickly said in a release. — AFP In this file photo Videogamers play on an alpha version of French video game quality play on its way to being a streaming enough to avoid lags in action or imagery. developer Ubisoft’s last installment of “Assassin’s Creed”, titled “Assassin’s service as easy to access as Netflix or Improvements in internet bandwidth, Creed Syndicate”, during the Madrid Games Week 2015 in Madrid. Spotify.Computing power in data centers computing power and data storage capabil-

Gamers crowd the Microsoft exhibit at the Los Angeles Convention center on day one of E3 2017, the three-day Gamers play the Ubisoft “Rainbow Siege” game at the Los Angeles Convention center on day one of E3 2017, the three-day Electronic Entertainment Expo, one of the biggest events in the gaming industry calendar, in Los Angeles, California. Electronic Entertainment Expo, one of the biggest events in the gaming industry calendar, in Los Angeles, California.