This week was dominated by the release of the NPD Group numbers for August, which showed the industry selling about 16% less than in the same period of 2008. Still, it was not all bad news. Here's what you need to know about the news from the last seven days.On Monday, we found out that Sony was interested in ke... |
13 September 2009
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It seems that the fall of 2009 might be remembered by videogaming history as the period when cloud-based gaming went from interesting idea to working reality. OnLive, the service that promises a portal to play games without ever installing them, has already started its open beta phase and is tweaking the parameters o... |
11 September 2009
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OnLive, the service that promises gamers they will be able to play all the titles they like on their PCs or television sets, has announced that it is entering an open beta period designed to showcase the possibilities of the service while also eliminating potential problems when dealing with a wide audience and getti... |
3 September 2009
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David Perry, Chief Creative Officer for Acclaim and creator of Earthworm Jim, has revealed Gaikai, a new cloud computing-based videogaming service, which is set to be ready for showing in an open beta to all interested publishers and looking for funding for further development.On the surface, Gaikai seems pretty simi... |
2 July 2009
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OnLive has been announced for quite a few months, promising to bring cloud gaming into the living rooms of everyone with a decent Internet connection. The possibility of playing any game anytime, even though you don't have a PC powerful enough for such as thing or a current-generation console, is something truly... |
28 May 2009
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The E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) Conference will take place at the beginning of June in Los Angeles. But as you may know, the city is quite close to Mexico, where the swine flu has been rampaging for quite some time. The ESA, the company behind the conference, has revealed that the show will go on and that the ... |
26 May 2009
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By now, a lot of people, especially gamers, have heard of OnLive, a service that promises to take the concept of cloud computing and adapt it to gaming, making it possible for people with even the lowest end-computer connected to the Internet to run high-end video games. Since its announcement, the opinions found in... |
6 May 2009
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Cloud computing has been around for quite some time, as the idea of using a computer cluster in order to calculate certain demanding tasks and sending the results back to the original PCs is something tested and proven. But when OnLive announced that it would be offering on-demand video game streaming for the masses... |
27 April 2009
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Gaming has always depended on the hardware that the gamer owned. This refers to all types of gamers, from PC users to console or handheld owners. But during this year's Game Developers Conference, OnLive was announced, promising to deliver the gaming equivalent of cloud computing to the masses. If this is true a... |
25 March 2009
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