INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Blade, the French startup behind Shadow, held a press conference this morning to announce some product news as well as some corporate
changes.Shadow is a cloud computing service for gamers
For a monthly subscription fee, you can access a gaming PC in a data center near you
Compared to other cloud gaming services, Shadow provides a full Windows 10 instance
eight threads on an Intel Xeon 2620 processor, an Nvidia Quadro P5000 GPU that performs more or less as well as an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080,
12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.The startup is moving away from a single configuration to offer three different plans
cores CPU, 12GB of RAM, 256GB of storageUltra: Nvidia RTX 2080 GPU, 4GHz with 4 cores CPU, 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storageInfinite: Nvidia
Shadow is using Intel Xeon W3200 CPUs on the new configurations.OVH founder and chairman Octave Klaba also announced a new partnership with
The new servers will be rolled out in OVH data centers.In other news, Shadow is launching a new interface specifically designed for TVs and
The launcher now lists all your games
You can tap on a game to launch the game directly without going through the regular Windows interface
The update is available on Android TV, iOS and Android
The tvOS update should land next week.Competition is heating upGoogle is about to launch Stadia on November 19th
Microsoft is working on Project xCloud
Nvidia has its own cloud gaming service
In other words, cloud gaming has become an incredibly crowded market.Shadow has been around for a few years now
to be available on any platform
You can launch your Shadow instance on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, tvOS and Android TV.And now, you can even imagine using Shadow
After installing the Android app, you can launch VR games on your Shadow instance and access demanding games without a gaming PC.Some
Serena, a syndicate led by Erik Maris and 2CRSi
The company also raised some money from Western Digital and Charter Communications earlier this year
At $35 per month, the company is generating some significant monthly recurring revenue.And Shadow has a new CEO
The company was probably looking for a more senior business profile for the next step of the company.
