With this release, hypothetically, you could run a full version of Photoshop on a Kindle Fire. Or Autodesk 3ds Max on an iPhone. "We will close this gap with the native stack," says Mozilla's CTO.
The company's compression technology could potentially address a major problem for players.
Otoy's cloud graphics tools can be used to create high-end movies or games at lower costs.
Editor's Pick The game industry set a new record for the money spent on acquisitions, but the number of deals dropped.
Octane Render, available now, should increase 3D computer-generation and image-rendering productivity.
After cloud gaming leader OnLive ran out of money in August, the future of cloud gaming became, er, cloudy. Rival cloud gaming service Gaikai had sold itself to Sony for $380 million, but OnLive’s failure to gain enough consumers to …
Cloud-gaming startup Otoy is making some big moves in advance of next week’s Game Developers Conference, including its first acquisition: the animated film technology firm Refractive Software.
In an exclusive interview, Otoy chief executive Jules Urbach said that this move …
Otoy has partnered with creativity tools maker Autodesk to create next-generation cloud rendering tools that will make film making, 3D designs, and video games easier, the company said today. Autodesk is also investing an undisclosed amount into Otoy.
The alliance …
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 …
Here’s our roundup of the week’s top tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
“This $25 computer (yes, computer!) also runs Quake 3“
It’s hard to believe, but the Raspberry Pi computer …
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Filmmakers and game creators would love to create animations so realistic that they look like they were produced inside a Star Trek Holodeck, the virtual simulator from the sci-fi TV and film series. In the Holodeck, you couldn’t tell whether …
Game-streaming startup Gaikai said today it has raised $30 million in a third round of funding.
The Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based company is one of the vendors of cloud gaming, where games are computed in servers and then video of games …
The latest entrant in the crowded games-on-demand market is Happy Cloud, a startup that lets you stream games to your computer so you can play them in minutes rather than hours.
Happy Cloud serves downloadable games to users but makes …
Our well-attended GamesBeat 2011 conference took place this week, and here’s what you missed.
As I noted in a preview story on mobile games, the conference was all about the wide-open battle for control of the emerging mobile gaming market. …
Ever wonder what the gaming world would be like without pirates?
That future isn’t too far away, thanks to the advent of cloud-based gaming services like Otoy, OnLive and Gaikai.
Cloud-based gaming companies run video games on very powerful remote …
Game-streaming startup Gaikai has scored a major deal to stream high-quality video games for Walmart.com, the online division of the world’s biggest retailer, VentureBeat has learned. If the new way of selling games works out, it could mean a big …
