Remember at the start of the generation when Microsoft banged on and on about the cloud and how it was going to change video games as we knew them? We’ve seen very little of that materialise, but it could just be that Microsoft was being a little too forward thinking. In 2013, technology wasn’t sufficiently advanced to enable that sort of cloud-powered wizardry. In 2018, I’m still not sure it is – but that doesn’t mean that other companies aren’t doubling down on the cloud.

We've seen little to nothing to show off Microsoft's cloud-based, offloaded parallel processing - but it's something Microsoft very much still believes in.

Microsoft R&D wizards may have solved game streaming's biggest problem; lag.

PlayStation's Now streaming service is amazing - but it'll probably never work in South Africa.

Microsoft may have harnessed the magical power of the cloud, and will be showing it off at E3 this year.

Watch a video showing how Microsoft's cloud can help with physics calcualtions, leaving the system to do the graphical gruntwork.

Just what the heck is "The Cloud?" Even Respawn, developers of smash hit, Cloud using Titanfall seem a little confused.

Here's how Microsoft's Xbox Live service is evolving for a new generation.