Play for free (though with those aforementioned ads)
Jackbox Games is preparing an ad-supported Smart TV streaming service that will allow players the chance to check out its Party Pack offerings.
“We are announcing a new Jackbox app that will allow you to play Jackbox Games on your smart TV and other platforms,” the developer said in a new blog post.
“How can we pull off such a technical miracle? The same way anyone does anything these days: The Cloud,” Jackbox continued. “Partnering with AWS GameLift Streams allows us to quickly launch and stream games to all sorts of devices from smart TVs to web applications to… I don’t know… a watch, probably. But let’s not. Gathering around your watch for a game of Fibbage is super-dumb.”
A “small collection” of titles will be offered for free, with Jackbox eventually planning to “offer our entire catalog of games for a subscription fee”.
The service is expected to launch later this year; it’s unclear if it will be region-based or available to the larger world. We’ll keep you posted as we learn more.
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