Amazon has announced that its Luna cloud gaming service has been redesigned to increase access to high-quality games, especially for those with Prime membership. The company has also introduced a brand-new feature called GameNight which delivers a multiplayer experience that brings friends and family together in the living room.
GameNight is probably the most interesting change here, so we’ll start there. It is a collection of more than 25 approachable, local multiplayer games where players primarily use their smartphone as the controller by scanning a QR code on the TV. The controls are said to be simple and responsive touchscreen inputs, making them easy to get to grips with.
Game examples include Courtroom Chaos: Starring Snoop Dogg, Angry Birds Flock Party, Draw & Guess, The Jackbox Party Pack 9, Ticket to Ride, Exploding Kittens 2, and Clue. You can check out some of these games in the YouTube video below.
One of the best things about cloud gaming is that the heavy lifting is done on Amazon’s servers, so you can play games on a range of hardware, including Fire TV, tablets, smartphones, web browsers, and select LG and Samsung smart TVs.
If you have a Prime membership, you get access to 50+ games on Luna, including those that are part of GameNight. There’s also a separate subscription called Luna Premium, which replaces Luna+ and costs $9.99 per month. It includes everything in the Prime offering plus even more games, such as EA SPORTS FC 25 and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.
Luna is currently available in the US, UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Portugal, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Amazon said that it wants to expand to other countries and continues to offer a rotating selection of PC games at no additional cost.
Source: Amazon