Valve’s Steam Link App Can Stream Games to Phones at 4K, 60FPS

When the Steam Link app hits smartphones later this month, most of users Steam Library of games will be playable on their phone in 4K resolution at 60 frames-per-second, but only when they are connected to their home network — and its best if that network is 5 GHz, not 2.4 GHz networks, Valve told Variety.The idea for the free Android and iOS app came about as a natural extension of Valve’s Steam In-Home Streaming technology which allowed users to play computer games on a television using a small Steam Link peripheral. The peripheral, though, won’t be required to use this new Steam Link app. “We’ve had lots of customers asking for the ability to stream elsewhere in their home besides their TV,” Valve’s Sam Lantinga, lead on the technology, told Variety. “The bathroom has come up a lot, oddly enough.”