6 Ways to Move PC Gaming to Your Couch
The phrase PC gaming often evokes images of sitting at a desk bathed in RGB light, clicking away with a mouse, but there’s no reason you can’t take your PC gaming experience and transport it to a comfy couch and TV setup.
Folks seem quite happy to stream games from hundreds of miles away, so why not from the other side of your house? You can use Steam in-home streaming (as one example) to beam your game from your computer to a client device.
Client devices can be a variety of things. There are Steam client apps for tablets, phones, smart TVs, and of course, other laptops. So you could, for example, install Steam on your MacBook and hook that up to your TV as a streaming receiver for your gaming PC.
Don’t forget that you can add non-Steam games to the Steam client to launch said games, which means they’ll also work using in-home streaming!
If streaming isn’t your thing, you could always invest in a gaming laptop and then hook it up to your TV or just play with it directly on the couch (plugged in of course) while someone else is using the big screen for Netflix.
There’s not much more to say about that; you can play with a gaming laptop wherever you can find an electrical outlet. You may even want to invest in a lap desk or under-sofa table if you’re not going the TV route.
The great thing about desktop PC gaming is that you can build a computer to any design you like. As long as the components are given enough power and cooling, they’ll happily live in whatever house you give them.
You can get one of the many Mini ITX or other SFF (Small Form Factor) cases on the market and then fill it with components designed to fit in those enclosures. Or you can go all out and create a custom chassis to fit your needs if you know your way
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