In other words, no expensive data centers choked and died to bring you the game.īefore 2016, the founders Sampson and Evan Banyash were living near Atlanta, building a remote desktop administration service. So it isn’t cloud gaming, but it is game streaming and the streams are peer-to-peer. That stream is then sent using low-latency networking to the connected device, which renders the images. Rainway captures the screen in real time and encodes it to a stream. When you launch a game via Rainway, it’s running on your gaming PC at home. Rainway has also launched its Android app. While free may be good for getting attention, Rainway still has to figure out how to use money. It took Apple a while to approve the app, but it’s finally ready to go. And this service doesn’t use the cloud, which would be very costly, as those other services are likely to find out. All you have to do is download the Rainway app from the App Store, and you can stream games from services like Steam to your iOS devices. But CEO Andrew Sampson, who once upon a time was homeless, believes he’s got the right price: free.
