These times are very trying and it's understandable if someone goes a little off the deep end once in a while. Just like Norman Bates said in Psycho, "We all go a little mad sometimes." However, a new Xbox ad campaign has us a little concerned. Microsoft launched a new marketing campaign for its Xbox consoles and cloud gaming service called "This is an Xbox." It features posters and commercials with a bunch of different objects like a laptop, a smartphone and a Meta Quest 3 that are all "an Xbox."

Chromebooks are great for productivity, web browsing, and video streaming, and they're doubly great because they tend to be pretty affordable. But are Chromebooks good enough to play games? Well, it depends on several factors: what kinds of games you want to play, how you want to play them, and how strong the hardware is in the particular Chromebook model you have. Here's what you need to know about gaming on a Chromebook, whether the value-for-money proposition of a Chromebook carries over into gaming, and what kind of gaming experience you can expect. Related: The best Chromebooks we've tested (including gaming Chromebooks) Chromebooks are fundamentally different from gaming laptops, so you have to temper your expectations and compromise on certain points.

User equipment is one of the main bottlenecks facing the gaming industry nowadays. The extremely realistic games which are currently available trigger high computational requirements of the user devices to run games. As a consequence, the game industry has proposed the concept of Cloud Gaming, a paradigm that improves gaming experience in reduced hardware devices. To this end, games are hosted on remote servers, relegating users' devices to play only the role of a peripheral for interacting with the game. However, this paradigm overloads the communication links connecting the users with the cloud. Therefore, service experience becomes highly dependent on network connectivity. To overcome this, Cloud Gaming will be boosted by the promised performance of 5G and future 6G networks, together with the flexibility provided by mobility in multi-RAT scenarios, such as WiFi. In this scope, the present work proposes a framework for measuring and estimating the main E2E metrics of the Cloud Gaming service, namely KQIs. In addition, different machine learning techniques are assessed for predicting KQIs related to Cloud Gaming user's experience. To this end, the main key quality indicators (KQIs) of the service such as input lag, freeze percent or perceived video frame rate are collected in a real environment. Based on these, results show that machine learning techniques provide a good estimation of these indicators solely from network-based metrics. This is considered a valuable asset to guide the delivery of Cloud Gaming services through cellular communications networks even without access to the user's device, as it is expected for telecom operators.

Being able to play modern, high-quality video games on just about any kind of PC is the big pitch of the handful of cloud gaming services out there. Using a subscription model, these services allow people with a strong internet connection to tap remote servers in order to play video games of all kinds on even modest computer setups that wouldn't be able to run them directly. We took the time to try out the biggest players in the cloud gaming space to figure out what works, what to expect, and why you may want to choose one service over another. From the game libraries to the user experience to the visual quality, read on to see what these cloud gaming services bring to the table. When it comes to the best all-around experience, GeForce Now is our strongest recommendation.

Just as Xbox starts to make some major strides with its cloud gaming service, Nvidia comes out with a whopper of an update to its cloud gaming platform, GeForce Now. As of last month, anyone can pre-order a membership to Nvidia's new RTX 3080 subscription tier, which provides more resolution options, features, and benefits than any other dedicated cloud gaming service out there--and for the moment it's also the only cloud gaming platform that supports true 4K gaming. We recently tried out the new subscription tier and all it has to offer. We were incredibly impressed with how smoothly the games ran, even at a level of detail so precise you can see pores on the characters' skin. If you're new to cloud gaming or wondering if subscribing to GeForce's RTX 3080 tier is worth it, here's what you need to know.

Gaming, cloud computing, GPT-3; Microsoft has been all over the news this week. Undeterred by TikTok's ditch, the company made a more ambitious and probably better purchase in the form of Bethesda Softworks, a behemoth of the gaming industry. However, Amazon played a last minute spoilsport by announcing its own cloud gaming service. Read more about the most happening events in the tech industry in this week's top news brought to you by Analytics India Magazine. The saga of algorithms and their biases took a new turn when the Twitter users stumbled upon the mysterious cropping mechanism on the platform.

Amazon has unveiled a bizarre home surveillance drone that flies around your house when you're not there and keeps an eye out for intruders. Unveiled by Ring, the firm's home security arm, the Always Home Cam can fly to check if the stove is off or the window is still open while the user is away. It consists of a flying black camera, powered by rotor blades, that automatically takes off from a stationary white dock if it detects movement in the house. The drone only records when it is in the air and makes a sound when it flies, so any people in the house know it is recording. Amazon said was inspired to create a security product that could move more freely throughout the home to'give more viewpoint flexibility'.

'God of War' is one of five new games coming to Sony's PlayStation Now cloud gaming subscription service. PS Now is also getting a price cut to $9.99 monthly, from $19.99. Been thinking of giving Sony's PlayStation Now cloud gaming service a spin? Now you have even more reasons. For starters, the video game maker is reducing the price of the subscription service to $9.99, down from the previous monthly charge of $19.99.

Streaming video games is an idea with such obvious advantages that like virtual reality, motion controls and 3D screens, it had already hit the market several times before it was technologically possible: witness the untimely demise of OnLive in 2015. The big question facing Microsoft and Google, both of which showed off their entries into the "cloud gaming" market at the E3 video game conference in Los Angeles last month, is whether they've taken the plunge at the right time, or whether they, too, will be chalked up in history as premature entrants. After playing with Microsoft's Project xCloud and Google's Stadia, we can draw some conclusions but others will have to wait. Both services are aiming at different targets, and based on the idealised situations in which they were presented, they each achieve their goals. But not everything is in their hands. No plan survives contact with the enemy, and no streaming service has yet survived contact with the realities of home broadband.

Google plans to launch a video game streaming platform called Stadia, positioning itself to take on traditional video game business. Video games are following data and video into the cloud. Google, which has already announced its Stadia game streaming service will be available in November, will be showing that off at his year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), which begins Saturday in Los Angeles. Microsoft is expected Sunday to reveal more about its own xCloud game platform, also being developed to deliver games via the cloud. Sony is partnering with Microsoft to augment its own cloud gaming strategy.