This has less to do with Bluestacks and more to do with the games.

It’s worth noting that I initially thought the games would run the way I’m used to playing PC games, with a high resolution and a fast refresh rate, though I was quickly disappointed. Some of the games featured include Grand Mafia, Nova Empire: Space Commander, PUBG: Mobile, State of Survival, Guns of Glory and many more. At the time of launch, the web Bluestacks X featured about 15 games, though that number has grown to over 60 titles, with new ones added every week.

The former allows you to play titles on the cloud, without having to download any files or software on your PC, whereas the latter stores data on your machine, and doesn’t offer cloud gaming, while offering a larger selection of applications.įor the web version of Bluestacks X, the company partnered with now.gg and hosts the service on Amazon’s AWS Graviton servers. In another PC I tried to install BlueStacks but due to some issues with the video driver I wasn’t able to even start the install.īlueStacks is available now, it is free and you can download the latest version at X is available on the web and as a downloadable emulator that lives on your PC. I also tried the emulator on a couple of Windows 8 PCs, in one it worked OK, but I found that navigation was a little frustrating using the mouse (the reason for this might be that Android is a touch-first operating system), the program didn’t support the native resolution of the monitor and at first I had a hard time trying to shut down the program, but nothing that the Alt+F4 keyboard shortcut didn’t fix. I had the chance to install and play with the new App Player for a few days using Twitter, Flipboard and a few other apps, and it is impressive the performance and responsiveness sometimes you will not notice that they are running in a virtual environment.

It includes a new menu similar to Windows Charms, and landscape/portrait rotation support. What it means optimized for Surface Pro? It means that users can run mobile apps in full screen that behave pretty much like the modern Windows 8 apps.

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