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Gaikai Ramping Up Open Beta

Posted by Soulskill on from the you-got-your-internet-in-my-game dept.

Gaikai, the cloud gaming service currently under development, has begun its open beta phase, sending out first 1,000 and then 10,000 invites to players who requested them. Dave Perry said in a blog post that they will continue sending out invites in batches of 10,000 until they pin down any outstanding server issues. His post also includes video of a player streaming Mass Effect 2 to a Linux system. "We are working with lots of publishers / retailers / media sites / electronics makers / telecom companies etc. We have at least 60 deals in the pipe at some stage. (You can imagine how nuts that is to manage.) ... Everyone will be getting invited in batches, and if you are too far from our servers, don't worry — you've actually helped, as you've shown us where we need to install more data centers. (We're effectively reverse-engineering the internet, letting the traffic show us where the best data center position would give access to the most people.)"

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  1. *sigh* by wildstoo · · Score: 3, Informative

    First of all, since links are conspicuously missing from TFS:

    http://www.dperry.com/archives/news/dp_blog/gaikai_open_bet/

    Secondly, the framerate in that ME2 video is shockingly bad, and gives no indication of how laggy the controls are (I'm guessing: very).

    I'm still not convinced this can be more than vaporware until the latency can be brought to 10ms or less, which isn't going to happen with any regularity on the Internet we have.

  2. Google - get your wallet out... by polyp2000 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Man ... why dont google buy this company ? It strikes me combining this with the GoogleTV platform would be a pretty nice marriage....

    N.

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  3. Re:two articles in a row? by causality · · Score: 3, Informative

    /. is certainly drinking the cloud-flavored kool-aid

    They decided to take a short break from every little thing Google does, every little thing Apple does, sending balloons to the stratosphere and calling it "space", and never writing a negative book review yet having YRO stories that promote free speech. They decided to take a long break from well-deserved criticism of Microsoft.

    It's premature to say whether clouds will become the next SCO in terms of article count but they're definitely trying.

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