BlueStacks is in talks with carriers, TV manufacturers and cable companies to offer its service.īlueStacks has already upset the Apple cart with its Layercake technology, which takes Android apps and allows them to run on Windows PCs. The GamePop service could also be available through other devices, not just the GamePop console. Mobile games are providing richer graphics and gameplay and heading towards the living room fast.”
“At the same time, this is a natural evolution. “The capability to bring iOS games to TV is unprecedented,” said Jamie Gotch, the CEO of Subatomic. Since the technology does not use straight emulation, the games run at a good speed.Īmong the gamemakers who will try out GamePop is Subatomic, the designer of the popular Fieldrunners tower defense games. BlueStacks plans to offer about $200 worth of paid games included for free with GamePop’s console. For that price, players will gain access to 500 top mobile games. BlueStacks can simply go to iOS developers and have them make minor modifications to their games so they can run on the GamePop service, which will be come with a subscription fee of $7 a month.
The technology doesn’t require any partnership with Apple. “We think gaming is fundamentally changing,” said Rosen Sharma, chief executive of BlueStacks, in an interview with GamesBeat. Some of the retina iPad games, for example, look spectacular on TV.”īlueStacks is offering a subscription service and a $130 console with one game controller coming sometime this winter. “Looking Glass enables these titles to be brought into the living room. “There will always be popular titles which are iOS-only, like Clash of Clans,” said BlueStacks chief technology officer Suman Saraf.
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