{"id":21271,"date":"2018-05-22T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/318610"},"modified":"2018-05-22T20:54:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T20:54:00","slug":"ea-acquires-gameflys-cloud-gaming-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/22\/ea-acquires-gameflys-cloud-gaming-service\/","title":{"rendered":"EA acquires GameFly&#8217;s cloud gaming service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Arts announced its acquisition of\u00a0the cloud gaming technology assets and personnel of GameFly today.<\/p>\n<p>This will likely open up more\u00a0possibilities for the company to expand its\u00a0reach of games\u00a0through\u00a0streaming to more players on more devices.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition makes sense for EA, considering GameFly\u00a0launched a game streaming service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/244953\/GameFly_launches_streaming_service_exclusively_on_Amazons_Fire_TV.php\">back in 2015<\/a>\u00a0through Amazon&#8217;s Fire TV streaming box which featured a console-like controller with gamepad.<\/p>\n<p>The service consisted\u00a0of packages of games organized by genre, and offered unlimited access to seven titles for a monthly fee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before that however, GameFly\u00a0acquired the Israel-based streaming startup\u00a0Playcast Media in 2009, where the company launched a pilot program with Israeli cable networks to stream games directly to users&#8217; television sets.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release announcing the deal, GameFly\u00a0will join EA\u2019s functional teams, including the central technology organization that is responsible for developing and operating the platform that powers EA\u2019s games and services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Arts announced its acquisition of\u00a0the cloud gaming technology assets and personnel of GameFly today. This will likely open up more\u00a0possibilities for the company to expand its\u00a0reach of games\u00a0through\u00a0streaming to more players on more devices. The acquisition makes sense for EA, considering GameFly\u00a0launched a game streaming service back in 2015\u00a0through Amazon&#8217;s Fire TV streaming box [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}