Streamplay And MTN Launch Africa’s First Cloud Gaming Platform
Streamplay And MTN Launch Africa’s First Cloud Gaming Platform. With 5G and cloud gaming on the rise, Streamplay Studio has been working diligently to provide Africa’s biggest mobile service provider with a pioneering platform that offers users with the next generation of mobile gaming – 5G cloud gaming.
Cloud gaming, sometimes referred to as gaming on demand or gaming as a service, is a type of online gaming that runs video games on remote servers and streams them directly to a user’s device. For the users, this means no downloads of apps to a device, instant access to a library of playable games, while being console quality on your phone.
Arena 5G is a social competitive platform that differentiates itself from competition by offering premium games on a platform that offers competition-based tournaments where social gamers can compete to win prizes. Winners are selected in two ways; 1) leaderboards are incorporated in the tournaments and the top 3 players are rewarded with weekly and monthly prizes and 2) randomized spot prizes are awarded to players that participate on a regular basis. This system ensures an inclusive social experience aimed at a broad market of gamers ranging from top tier players to those who are just looking for a little bit of fun.
With music and video streaming services already firmly established both in technology and amongst consumers, gaming is hot on the heels. The challenge to date has been with providing gamers with a seamless and lag free experience. Longer format games have struggled to make the leap for these exact reasons and where some have been met with challenges, Streamplay Studio has seen the opportunity to offer short-format premium games to the market.
Streamplay’s new platform offers users with premium games streamed straight to a mobile phone, breaking down the barrier of needing the best hardware to play the best games. No downloads are required as users can instantly play a range of top tier games. As another point of differentiation, the Arena 5G platform also offers tournaments where gamers can compete in an esports format where top players are rewarded.
