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GDC Europe 09: Hardware-less delivery system will stop games becoming abandonware, says Silicon Knights boss
Read More »Spall: Xbox 720 and PS4 will be browser-based
The traditional console hardware cycle is broken – this we know. But veteran games developer Matt Spall yesterday went one further yesterday at the Develop Conference, claiming that we will never see another ‘traditional’ console coming to the market. Speaking of the rising importance of cloud computing, which was made …
Read More »OnLive: ‘Nothing can rival our tech’
Cloud-based system to enter closed beta this summer
Read More »Pachter: Downloads will control half the game market in 10 years
Developers will see half the business in downloads and cloud computing, says the Wedbush Morgan analyst
Read More »Gaikai E3 press demo cancelled
Industry veteran David Perry will no longer be showing his cloud gaming service, Gaikai, to the press at E3. According to a post on his confirmed Twitter account, Perry implied that the reason for withdrawing from press demos was down to complications regarding patent filings. Perry will still demonstrating the …
Read More »Sony trademarks PS Cloud
It has emerged that PlayStation platform holder Sony has trademarked the name ‘PS Cloud’ – and it did so just one day after OnLive lifted the lid on its streaming games technology at GDC last week. OnLive is a new games system based around the concept of cloud computing – …
Read More »Can OnLive really transform the games market?
GDC 09: New service brings 'cloud' computing to the games space
Read More »Could OnLive be the death of hardware?
With Zeebo proposing that the future of gaming will bring about the end of disc-based media, an arguably even more exciting prospect dubbed OnLive threatens to end the gaming hardware race altogether. The new on-demand service claims to do for gaming what the ‘cloud’ concept has done to computing – …
Read More »Steam Cloud floats into view
New preference porting service set for Valveâ??s online Steam network finally arrives
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