Lines of code discovered within the newest Steam shopper beta are including credence to a long-running hearsay that Valve is working by itself cloud gaming service.
Data miner Pavel Djundik has discovered a number of references to a cloud gaming operation within the beta shopper’s code, together with extra code that refers to timed trials.
“The timed trials and cloud gaming are related to each other, there’s ‘GetCloudGameTimeRemaining’ method,” Djundik suggests over Twitter. “We knew about NVIDIA earlier than, however this beta provides extra strategies for Steam to work together with the NVIDIA cloud.
“For instance, CloudGamingNVIDIAUpdateGameList”.
Latest Steam shopper beta provides extra assist for Steam cloud gaming operations and timed trials. pic.twitter.com/EpdwXYVnCd
— Pavel Djundik (@thexpaw) May 25, 2020
This is the primary we’ve heard about an obvious Steam Cloud Gaming service since last year, when Steam’s developer-only portal acquired a code replace with references to the service. Valve has but to supply any affirmation.
It wouldn’t be fully out of left area for Steam to introduce its personal cloud gaming effort. With each Google and Microsoft cracking getting into into the sphere with their respective Stadia and xCloud platforms, it might seem to be the following logical step for Valve.
Steam already has quite a few cloud-based choices, together with Steam Link, Steam Link Anywhere, and Steam Remote Play, however is but to introduce a manner that doesn’t require utilizing your PC as a server to stream games.
Valve didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark, however we’ll replace if we hear again.
