INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Valve wants to help us all play more video games together, and to that end, it's introducing a new feature in Steam called Remote Play
The feature will effectively turn every local co-op game and multiplayer game on Steam into an online game.The Remote Play Together feature
was announced by Valve staffer Alden Kroll on Twitter
Here's how he explains the feature:In essence, Remote Play Together will make one player the online host, with the game running locally on
Whatever game they are playing will then stream to other players online
Input from those players send back to the host, and register in-game as if the players were right there playing along.The new feature isn't
According to our sister site PC Gamer, it will come in beta form later this month
An announcement explains, "All local multiplayer, local co-op and split-screen games will be automatically included in the Remote Play
Together beta, which we plan to launch the week of October 21."This may not seem like the biggest news, since a lot of the best multiplayer
The feature could be especially beneficial if Steam allows gamers to play the same game online when only one player owns the game, as would
be the case in local multiplayer.Remote Play Together is also another way of showing the potential for game streaming
Not only will players get to connect over a long distance, but presumably only one of the players needs to have a gaming computer
It takes only modest hardware to support game streaming, as we learned in the beta of Google Stadia when we played Assassin's Creed
Odyssey on a years-old, Intel Celeron-powered Chromebook.With this update, it looks like it's only a matter of time before game streaming
slides into just about every corner of gaming.
