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Cloud Gaming Service Gaikai Coming to Facebook, World of Warcraft Demoed

Gaikai, one of the cloud gaming companies which are trying to make games more accessible to potential players, has announced that its service will soon be coming to the social platform Facebook allowing players to first get access to demos of high end video game and then to full releases.The Facebook move means that ...

18 January 2012
21:11 GMT

Gaikai and Walmart Offer Trials for Electronic Arts PC Games

Retail giant Walmart and cloud gaming service Gaikai have announced that they have entered into a partnership aimed at allowing players to get trial versions of PC based video games from publisher Electronic Arts.There are now free Gaikai maintained links to trial versions of EA titles, labeled “Play Now”...

22 June 2011
10:35 GMT

Multiplayer Designed to Combat Used Games Sales, Says Silicon Knights Leader

Denis Dyack, who is the leader of developer Silicon Knights, has said that, while a lot of teams are still interested in creating complex single-player experiences, there's a clear pressure coming from video game publishers to develop multiplayer modes as a way of combating the used games phenomenon. The vete...

30 May 2011
04:43 GMT

Cloud Gaming Will Grow in Coming Years

John Carmack, who is one of the founders of well-known developer id Software, has said that the cloud gaming phenomenon is one of the trends that will heavily influence the industry in the coming years. The legendary developer has spoken to Industry Gamers and said, “I think cloud gaming will eventually be a s...

26 May 2011
16:21 GMT

Pachter Says the Cloud Will Dominate Gaming by 2030, New Consoles in 2015

Michael Pachter, the analyst watching the video-game industry for Wedbush Morgan, has said that the most important development in the coming years will be the increase of the importance of cloud gaming, with more freedom in how and where the plays are given to the gamer. Speaking about cloud-based gaming, the anal...

28 February 2011
15:01 GMT

OnLive Console Gets Torn Down, Quad-Core Chip Found Inside

When OnLive launched its cloud gaming console just a short while also, the company hasn't made any disclosures about the hardware used to make it tick, so curiosity was the name of the game for many of its fans, one of them recently taking his micro-console apart in order to see what lies behind its compact case...

14 December 2010
14:31 GMT

OnLive Offers First Year Free to Founding Members

OnLive is a service that wants to try out a new approach to the way games are played in the living room. The idea is that the company will stream content to any computer, regardless of its specifications, with the actual PC games being run by super-computers back at the OnLive's facilities. Many have been skepti...

17 June 2010
03:02 GMT

Ubisoft Assaults Piracy with Server-Based Saves

Ubisoft has unveiled the new measures it plans to use in order to reduce piracy of its titles on the PC. The French company has long sought to find a technical way of deterring pirates but the use of heavy handed Digital Rights management solutions, like StarForce, has attracted a backlash from gamers and talks of bo...

27 January 2010
14:21 GMT

A Gamer's Week: 6 – 13 September

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
10:41 GMT

Cloud-Based Gaikai Enters Closed Beta This Month

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
13:01 GMT

OnLive Games on Demand System Enters Beta

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
05:58 GMT

Gaikai Aims to Move Gaming to the Cloud

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
16:21 GMT

OnLive Will Save the Gaming Industry, Says Executive

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
16:41 GMT

OnLive Also Skips E3, Swine Flu Not Related

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
02:21 GMT

OnLive Will Work, Says Founder

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
02:37 GMT

Crytek Attempted Cloud Gaming Way Before OnLive

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
15:01 GMT

OnLive Presents Cloud Gaming, Lets You Play Any Title

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
04:23 GMT


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