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Playcast launches Playcast Pavilion

June 17, 2025

Playcast, the peer-powered interactive streaming platform, has announced the launch of Playcast Pavilion—a new way to play, share, and showcase games using the power of distributed player-hosted PCs. Now available, the Playcast Pavilion enables streamers, gamers, developers, and PC owners to join a growing global network of real-time gameplay.

Playcast Pavilion turns everyday gaming PCs into cloud-ready gaming kiosks. Whether you’re a developer looking to attract audiences to your game, a streamer seeking deeper audience engagement, or a player exploring new titles for free, the Playcast Pavilion provides a shared network to make it possible.

How It Works:

  • Players can play streamed PC games from any device for free—no downloads, accounts or ownership required—by joining Playcast Pavilion kiosks hosted by other gamers.
  • Streamers can let their audience jump into games with them, live on stream, using titles from the vast Playcast Pavilion library of commercially licensed Steam games.
  • Hosts gain free access to the Playcast Pavilion catalog of Steam games in exchange for donating their Gaming PC’s idle cycles as a virtual gaming kiosk to the Playcast Pavilion network.
  • Developers enabling their games for public performance via the Steam Café license can promote their games across the internet with free trials, events and sponsored streams.
  • Playcast Pavilion supports public performance licensing through Steam Café.

“Playcast Pavilion is built to create a new kind of marketplace for play,” said Alex St. John, CEO of Playcast. “It unlocks discovery, community, mobile access and new streaming experiences traditional app stores and cloud platforms simply can’t.”

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