What does this mean for Sony?
Big Fish Games gives GamesBeat a quick look at their upcoming cloud-based service for casual games.
[Update: We've updated this story to be more precise. It is still confusing, but we've added the facts as we know them] Sony has dropped the option for the OnLive cloud gaming service in an upcoming media player in the …
The disruptive effect of Sony’s $380 million acquisition of Gaikai could send reverberations throughout the video game industry.
As such, the deal will give Sony several strategic options that will help it fight the console war. With cloud gaming, the …
Sony announced tonight that it will acquire the streaming video-game service Gaikai for $380 million. The deal officially closed on June 30, and Sony is purchasing the California-based company as part of a move to disrupt the gaming business.
The …
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Game startup Gaikai streamed the high-end first-person shooter Bulletstorm to the Chrome web browser today in a demo at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco.
Normally, you have to play such games using a console and game disc or …
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) video game trade show in Los Angeles was full of glitzy press conferences (like Ubisoft’s, pictured above). So many big companies were acting like it was business as usual. They showed games that were the …
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Samsung plans to enter the game business through a cloud-gaming service that is powered by game-streaming startup Gaikai.
The Korean electronics giant plans to announce the service at next week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). It could be a big change …
Yves Guillemot, the chief executive of French game publisher Ubisoft, belives that traditional game companies will be able to meet the challenge of the changing game business, which is being disrupted with new business models and platforms. Ubisoft’s position is …
Gaikai is announcing today it has signed up another partner — Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment — for its game-streaming business where it embeds instantly playable game demos in the web sites of its publishing partners.
David Perry (pictured at last …
iSwifter found a niche for its cloud streaming service by enabling Flash games to run on the iPad. Now it is extending its platform so that a wider swatch of PC game companies can stream their games to Apple’s tablet.…
Gaikai, the cloud based gaming service, today announced that it will be streaming game demos directly to online customers of European retailer Game.
In what has been an otherwise awful week for the troubled U.K.-based retailer, this news will help …
Crytek, the developer behind Crysis and Far Cry, is backing a new social gaming network called GFACE. Created by a “small team with big ideas”, GFACE promises to deliver high quality free to play multiplayer games directly to your browser, …
LG Electronics and Gaikai are teaming up to bring an integrated cloud gaming service to LG Cinema 3D TVs in 2012.
Gaikai says it has spent three years building the fastest interactive cloud network in the world, instantly capable of …
Gaikai, the game streaming company, has kept a low profile recently, but a quick survey of the web shows that the company has scored some big deals with online retailers. Among those that have quietly adopted Gaikai are BestBuy.com, YouTube, …
Cloud-gaming firm Happy Cloud plans to work with Advanced Micro Devices to bring games-on-demand to connected TVs.
Under the partnership, Happy Cloud will give users access to Windows-based PC games via web-connected TVs that use AMD’s embedded G-Series microprocessors. Those …
Netflix today spun off its mail-order DVD business into a new service called Qwikster, which will include mail-order video game rentals. Given Netflix’s immense success with the movie business, you might expect the games rental business to fare just as …
GameStop, the world’s biggest game retailer, announced today it has begun working on a GameStop branded gaming tablet. And last week, the company said it had begun a closed beta test for its cloud-like online gaming and digital download service.…
