Streaming games around your home

While you wait for Google’s Stadia and Microsoft’s Project xCloud to become viable and available in Australia, did you know it’s already possible to stream games you own to devices around your house, including mobiles and TV screens?

You can play your Xbox or Playstation games on your PC, for example; or beam your PC games from your study to your loungeroom TV over your home network; or play your PC games on an Android phone. You don’t actually need much to make this happen – a wired home network helps but is not strictly necessary, and the rest is really just software and possibly controllers.

We’re not going to look at every permutation and device here (there are a lot), but