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OnLive Public Beta: It’s On
8:40AM Michael McWhertor | OnLive, the games on demand service that we first told you about this past March, has entered its promised summertime beta phase, letting PC game players test the potentially game-changing system for themselves. More »
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With Gaikai, Dave Perry Wants Gaming As Accessible As YouTube
7:00AM Stephen Totilo | In March, a revolutionary-sounding streaming video game technology called OnLive was announced. And then, suddenly, game designer Dave Perry suddenly said he had something just like it. Today, he told Kotaku what’s the same and what’s not. More »
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It’s Too Early To Discuss Whether Xbox 360 Could Do OnLive
5:00AM Stephen Totilo | Remember the possible gaming revolution that will or could be OnLive? We recently connected some dots and asked Microsoft if they could be a part of it. We received an answer and a compliment. More »
Features
8:00AM David Wildgoose | Welcome to the second Two-Player Mode debate, where I lock horns with Screen Play editor and veteran games writer Jason Hill to assess, analyse and argue a burning industry issue.This time we turn our attention to digital distribution in the wake of the announcement of OnLive. We ask what are the potential consequences for the rest of the industry, for the PC as a platform and the three console makers? And could it spell the death of the traditional retail model?Hit the jump for the full exchange.
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Two-Player Mode: The Death Of Retail?
8:00AM David Wildgoose | Welcome to the second Two-Player Mode debate, where I lock horns with Screen Play editor and veteran games writer Jason Hill to assess, analyse and argue a burning industry issue.This time we turn our attention to digital distribution in the wake of the announcement of OnLive. We ask what are the potential consequences for the rest of the industry, for the PC as a platform and the three console makers? And could it spell the death of the traditional retail model?Hit the jump for the full exchange.
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Crytek: The Internet Isn’t Ready For Streaming Game Services
1:40AM Mike Fahey | Crysis developer Crytek reveals that they have done research into providing streaming game services like the ones Onlive is promising, only to conclude that the internet wouldn’t be ready for them until at least 2013. More »
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OnLive Founder Defends Game Changing Service: It ‘Will Work’
9:40AM Michael McWhertor | Steve Perlman, one of the founders of the OnLive streaming video game service unveiled at last week’s GDC, has defended the innovations powering the PC gaming service, dismissing articles calling the technology “unworkable” as “ignorant.” More »
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Could The Future of Gaming Be Console Free?
1:00AM Brian Crecente | Last week’s annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco gave gamers a tantalising glimpse at things to come in the world of interactive entertainment.
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GDC: The Showroom Floor
4:00PM Luke Plunkett | The Game Developers Conference is for game developers, yes, but that doesn’t mean there’s no showroom floor. There’s an expo floor. And here’s Adam walking around it, sticking microphones in people’s faces! More »
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Molyneux: Fable Franchise May Not Remain RPGs
6:21AM Brian Crecente | In this interview with Peter Molyneux we delve a bit deeper into the successes and failures of Fable II, which Molyneux says didn’t deliver emotionally as much as he had hoped it would. More »
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