The games announced so far include SNK, Capcom, and Konami titles (Castlevania Anniversary Collection, Street Fighter II - Hyper Fighting, and Metal Slug 3), but many of these games are available at low costs elsewhere. The connection to Twitch sounds like it's designed to work pretty instantly, with some flexible customization for extra monitors or screen layouts, but I haven't tried it yet.Īmazon also added a Retro gaming channel for $5 a month. The Twitch integration will work on laptops, phones and on Amazon's Fire tablets. Luna's Twitch integration, meanwhile, will add instant game broadcasting while playing, using a device's cameras to add a webcam stream as well. Luna's Twitch integration will work instantly from computers, phones, or Fire tablets. Prime membership, while already used by many people, recently increased in price to $139 a year. But tossing in a rotating batch of free monthly games for Prime customers seems like a way to pull more people into trying Luna's services with no extra cost, which is a move we expected from Amazon when Luna was announced back in 2020.

Game streaming still remains a bit of an unknown quantity compared to gaming on PCs and consoles and phones, especially when subscription gaming services also exist that don't require cloud streaming. Technically, Luna was in an early-access phase before, and it's now officially launching in the US with more game channels, and added Prime and Twitch integration.

The game streaming subscription service works well technically, but its value proposition as a monthly subscription service has faced competition from other subscription and streaming services including Microsoft's Game Pass Ultimate, Nvidia's GeForce Now, and Google Stadia. It's been over a year since Amazon first released its cloud gaming service, Luna.

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