Leak: Valve is working on a cloud platform Steam Cloud Gaming
A product from Valve may appear on the market of gaming cloud services. Its name — Steam Cloud Gaming — is contained in the code of the corporate website.
This part of the code is new. It was possible to track it thanks to the Steam Database. As shown on GitHub, there is a line from the partnership agreement inside the site: “You must accept the terms of the Steam Cloud Gaming Supplemental Agreement to continue.”
The Verge suggested that this is the name of the new Valve service. It can be an analogue of Google Stadia or Microsoft xCloud, i.e. a streaming gaming platform linked to Steam or embedded directly into it.
Recently, Valve has expanded the number of streaming tools for its store. These include:
- Steam Remote Play (connects two PCs via home network);
- Steam Link (allows you to play on various devices inside your home network);
- advanced Steam Link Anywhere (allows you to stream games from a PC to any compatible device, even outside the local network).
All these services are united by a mandatory binding to a PC that acts as a host. Steam Cloud Gaming, on the other hand, if Valve has servers for streaming streaming, can relieve users of this restriction.
It is also likely that Steam Cloud Gaming is just a new brand that will include Remote Play and Link Anywhere. After all, Steam is a PC-oriented store. But, as The Verge clarifies, in this case Valve would not need to change the agreement with its partners. This agreement is not yet publicly available.
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