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WoW On an iPad Via Gaikai
Gametap writes "If cloud gaming works for enough genres, it can't help but find popularity. Even just a game like WoW might be enough to make it happen, and Gaikai's Dave Perry posted a picture of doing just that on an iPad. So is it the future or not? Could somebody make a tablet with nothing more than a screen, battery, network port, and video decoder, and have it be a good gaming platform? Will it change the mobile, PC, console, and TV world as we know it? Lots of questions, lots of skepticism, lots of players and money being invested — but one thing is for sure: it will be very interesting to see how this evolves."
I heard rumors that macs are Personal Computers.
But surely the title should be: Fully Featured MacOS Computer Runs Game That Already Runs on MacOS Computers
No, wait, I have a better one: Expensive Fully Featured MacOS Computer Runs Game That Already Runs on Any Cheap-Ass Commodity Windows Computer
A little verbose, but I think accuracy is important in journalism.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Doesn't work for a game like WoW
Some people have ideas though.
"Damn raid wiped repeatedly because main raid healer was running WoW through his iPad. So we kicked him out of the guild."
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
From http://www.gaikai.com/streaming-worlds/:
"All you need is a broadband internet connection, a web browser, and the latest Adobe Flash player (which you almost certainly already have)."
I'm picturing all the characters falling over as the tablets move.
I drank what? -- Socrates