The DeanBeat: Sorting through the significance of Sony’s PlayStation 4 revelation
Editor's Pick We weigh the disappointments and the triumphs of Sony's big reveal.
Editor's Pick We weigh the disappointments and the triumphs of Sony's big reveal.
Sony overloaded us with information about the PlayStation 4 last night, but many questions still remain.
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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 …
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 …
GamesBeat 2012 is going to be all about crossover strategies. The game industry as we know it is changing. We’re seeing established companies cross over from one market to another, where once they faced barriers. As companies adapt to change, …
Our GamesBeat team is exhausted after five days of covering the biggest show for game developers in San Francisco. Here’s a day-by-day roundup of the major stories that we wrote from the Game Developers Conference this week. We’ve also thrown …
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 …
We’ve unveiled our first speakers and other details for our fourth annual game conference, GamesBeat 2012. Our roster of speakers includes Will Wright, creator of blockbuster video games from Sim City to The Sims and Spore. Wright is now the …
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, …
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 …
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 …