BlueStacks launches free cloud gaming service for mobile games

Hyderabad: Mobile gaming platform, BlueStacks Inc on Friday announced the release of BlueStacks X (beta) – a cloud-based free game streaming service for mobile games. BlueStacks X is available on Windows 10 and 11, Mac, iOS, Android, Chromebook and Raspberry Pi, the company said in a statement.

Hybrid cloud enables the cloud to offload parts of compute and graphics rendering to the endpoints, dramatically reducing the cloud costs and enabling users to enjoy a free service. This can be achieved both with using a native client and browsers capable of native graphics rendering. This technology works transparently and does not require any integration from game developers, the statement added.

"BlueStacks App Player recently crossed 1 billion lifetime downloads. BlueStacks X is a natural next step for us. Hybrid cloud is a big technological breakthrough which makes it economically viable to launch the service," said Rosen Sharma, CEO, BlueStacks Inc.

"We are a trusted partner to top mobile game developers. There is a lot of excitement among them about BlueStacks X and some of the other innovations we have like deep Discord integration," he added.

"These days all gamers practically live on Discord. Launching BlueStacks X as a Discord bot is so innovative and smart. We can literally just click a link and jump into a game. I can customize the service for my server, way cool," said Aevatrex (Jonathan Fermin), leading mobile gaming influencer.