Monday, March 18th 2024

GOG Partners Up with Amazon's Luna Cloud Streaming Service

Soon, you'll be able to play your favorite games from GOG, like the Witcher series or Cyberpunk 2077, on multiple devices of your choice. We're teaming up with Amazon Luna cloud gaming service to give you even more ways of enjoying your titles, while still keeping our mission of DRM-free gaming. Let's dive into it and take a look at how it works!

What exactly is Amazon Luna?
It is a cloud gaming service developed and operated by Amazon. The service first launched in March 2022 in the United States, and then spread its reach to other countries last year, with availability in the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. Luna works by streaming games from cloud servers and runs on Amazon's powerful cloud computing service Amazon Web Services (AWS). And what it means is that it allows its customers to enjoy gaming on the go, on the couch, or anywhere else you have an internet connection. No lengthy downloads or updates, no need for an expensive gaming PC, complicated setup, or heavy computer processing - just pure joy of running your games on a device of your choice in high-quality.
What's in it for you?
As stated earlier, this means we're bringing new ways to enjoy your games on multiple devices. Whether your current gaming rig isn't powerful enough to handle the latest release, you're often away from home and still want to play, or you just sometimes want to change your environment while keeping playing - Luna is the perfect solution in all those scenarios.

Devices that you already own (PCs, smartphones, tablets, Fire TV devices and smart TVs) can become your gaming devices, and Luna also supports peripherals that you already own, such as Xbox One and PlayStation 4 controllers, and mouse + keyboard. Luna also offers its own Luna Controller, which makes it even easier to seamlessly transition your game from one screen to the next.

You're visiting relatives but want to keep exploring Night City? Just pack your controller with you and play Cyberpunk 2077 on your smartphone or their TV.

But how does it work and what about the DRM-free aspect?
Now that's the best part. On Luna you'll be able to play every game that you already own on GOG (and that is also available on Luna). There's absolutely no requirement to purchase anything twice—you bought it once on our platform so it's always yours, as always. Moreover, it works both ways. You'll be able to buy games that are available on GOG via Luna's client and they will go straight into your GOG library.
In other words, buying games on GOG (directly on our service or via Luna) will give you the best of both worlds - enjoying them on Luna's cloud gaming service, as well as via offline installers or GOG GALAXY. All your DRM-free benefits of owning games on GOG will still be there, you'll just have more ways to play your favorite titles. And of course features of GOG GALAXY such as cloud saves and achievements will still work when playing on Luna - don't worry about splitting your progress.

So, what's next?
Well, if Luna sounds like something that you'd be interested in, head over to their website, and learn more about the cloud gaming service. Stay tuned, as we'll share more updates about our collaboration in the future, and be sure that whether you enjoy timeless classics or modern hits, you'll find such GOG titles on Luna soon! Discover new ways of playing and have a great one!
Source: GOG Blog
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4 Comments on GOG Partners Up with Amazon's Luna Cloud Streaming Service

#1
SOAREVERSOR
Been saying it for a while but PC gaming ruined console gaming and will lead us to the cloud first. PC gaming will be cloud gaming. There is no way out of it. If you play games on the PC you are voting to game in the cloud.
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mtosev
Interesting news and the partnership between Amazon and GOG.
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#3
HOkay
SOAREVERSORBeen saying it for a while but PC gaming ruined console gaming and will lead us to the cloud first. PC gaming will be cloud gaming. There is no way out of it. If you play games on the PC you are voting to game in the cloud.
But Luna runs on many platforms, it's not really PC gaming as such, it's just not console gaming. I guess you could argue that they're running the PC game on their end still, which I guess they wouldn't do if PC gaming didn't exist...

Anyway, this sounds great, I think Luna is free to Prime users so this is just another way to play games I already own. Could be useful on my Lenovo Legion Go when I'm away from home.
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c2DDragon
SOAREVERSORBeen saying it for a while but PC gaming ruined console gaming and will lead us to the cloud first. PC gaming will be cloud gaming. There is no way out of it. If you play games on the PC you are voting to game in the cloud.
Not everybody got a bandwidth good enough for it.
Maybe in 25 years. I even wonder. Maybe in 50 years.

Many big cities in my country don't have a 100% optical fiber coverage. For those who aren't living in big cities it's worse.

I know people who cannot even watch Netflix or anything which is streaming content because they don't even have enough download speed.

Playing chess on cloud, maybe but anything else...

The most advanced consoles right now are like little computers with closed OS (since the first Xbox, I turned it into a media center), I don't understand what you mean by "PC gaming ruined console gaming".
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