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Gaikai Video Demo
Raph's Website — Dave Perry has a pretty compelling video demo of Gaikai, his new venture, on his blog. Like OnLive, this is also a “play a game remotely, stream a video and send controller data back over the wire” system, apparently just using Flash as the delivery mechanism. (1) No installing anything. (I’m running regular Windows Vista, with the latest Firefox and Flash is installed.) (2) This is a low-spec server, it’s a very custom configuration, fully virtualized. Why? To keep the costs to an absolute minimum. We had 7 Call of Duty games running on our E3 demo server recently. (3) ...

Gaikai demonstration shows WoW, Eve Online
Oklahoma City MMORPG Examiner — With tons of doubt and speculation behind cloud computing services like OnLive and Gaikai , video demos are great to see. In this video demonstration of Gaikai by David Perry we get to see the service in action. Edge Online pointed us toward the video found at David Perry's website . The majority of the games shown are not MMORPGs which is why I'll post this on my PC Examiner as well. However, the very end shows of what you're probably here to see: an MMORPG through Gaikai. Perry shows off an undead in Tirisfal Glades running around just like you would if the game was installed to computer. As ...

Gaikai promises to stream PC games like WoW straight to your browser
WoW.com — David Perry is one of those game developers who doesn't do anything small -- he started out with a company called Shiny Entertainment, responsible for great old games like Earthworm Jim, MDK, Messiah, and the Enter the Matrix movie tie-in game, and nowadays he's moved on to the MMO market, where he's developed all kinds of crazy ideas (including, we're not kidding, a dance MMO). This is the kind of guy who has ideas and chases them down. His latest idea is a system called Gaikai, a "game streaming service" that allows players to jump right ...

Logo Contest Winner, Worgen Hunter Pet, WoW Streamed With Gaikai
Worldofraids News — World of Raids Logo Contest Winner This was by far the hardest contest to judge yet on World of Raids, since it will usher in a new-look logo for the website. We had a number of incredible entries, but unfortunately only one could be chosen. I'm going to contact all of the entrants and get their permission to upload the logos they submitted, because while we can only use one, I think everyone would like to be able to appreciate the talent and creativity displayed. So, without further ado, I present to you the future logo for World of Raids: [image] ...