News

There May Not Even Be A PlayStation 4 Or Xbox 720, Says Cloud Gaming Company Gaikai

Brace yourselves, readers! A company whose whole business plan depends on consoles going away says that one of the big platform holders miht be getting out of the hardware business altogether.


October 21, 2011
PC

You Can Play A Console-Quality Video Game From… YouTube?

To very little fanfare, the PC demo of FIFA 12 is now playable without a download. All you have to do is go to the game’s YouTube page. Provided you have a decent Internet connection and up-to-date Java, simply clicking a banner puts you on the pitch.


October 7, 2011
Mobile

Mini Motor Racing Bringing Cloud Saves To iDevices

Another racing game, another iOS feature implementation. This time, it’s Mini Motor Racing, the upcoming Micro Machines-meets-motocross title from Binary Mill, that’s going to go live with the iCloud feature rolling out for the bleeding edge of Apple’s portables.


June 8, 2011
Mobile

OnLive Brings Streaming PC Games To Your Tablet PC This Year

Cloud gaming service OnLive is going portable later this year, when the OnLive Player App brings PC gameplay to your iPad and Android tablet PCs.


May 10, 2011
PC

The Happy Cloud Speeds Up Downloads, But Is Faster Better?

Within a minute of logging into my trial account at games-on-demand service The Happy Cloud I was playing the full PC version of LEGO Batman. “Instant gratification” is a phrase the company likes to toss about, and it certainly fits the bill.


January 5, 2011
News

OnLive Gets Built Into Cheap Electronics

Why spend $US99 on OnLive’s Microconsole TV adaptor when you can buy an inexpensive Blu-ray player with the streaming game service built right in? OnLive teams up with bargain electronics manufacturer VIZIO to bring streaming games to the masses.


December 9, 2010
News

Magical Box Streams PC Games To My Television

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Onlive’s streaming game service made the leap from the PC to the TV with the release of the Microconsole TV adapter earlier this month. How well does it work? See for yourself.


October 28, 2009
News

Xbox Live Exec: No Cloud For Near Future

A streaming games service—”cloud gaming”, as the buzzphrase has it—is on Microsoft’s horizon but, for the near-term, it’s not something that can be reasonably delivered to a local-machine user, said the Europe boss for Xbox Live.