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Valve boss Gabe Newell gave a talk at DICE 2013 this week, and he said all sorts of lovely things like: the Steambox price point will be a much lower cost than many living-room devices; he talked about how he is skeptical of cloud gaming; how his vision for video games is a bit on the PC-fans side; and how the console transition is bad for gaming as a whole. That’s the take away, at any rate. You can watch his speech below.

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OnLive’s recent struggles has taught everyone at the company an awful lot. CEO Charlie Jablonski and UK boss Bruce Grove have spoken in length to Eurogamer, outlining many of the troubles the group has faced over the past year. They also look to the future, indicating things can only get brighter with a better strategy.

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Nvidia’s GeForce Grid Cloud Gaming general manager Phil Eisler believes the next iteration of consoles will be the last as cloud gaming will become the “predominant way that people play games.”

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EA Labels president Frank Gibeau believes the firm is “better positioned for success,” and at serving consumers than other companies which he considers “marooned on one platform.”

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During GameStop’s quarterly earnings call yesterday, the company revealed it has reduced the scope of its streaming games service, Gamasutra reports. Built on technology acquired from Spawn Labs and Stardock, the cloud-based gaming package will now be restricted to PCs, tablets and IP-capable TVs. The service is still expected to go live this year, and GameStop is apparently in negotiation with a host of content providers.

Responding to Sony’s acquisition of Gaikai, Microsoft has said it’s already onboard the cloud gaming bandwagon.

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A two-year old set of documents claiming to list what Microsoft has in store for Xbox 720 – yes, that is what it’s called in the graphs – has been plastered all over the internet.

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Sony is keen on the idea of streaming and cloud-based games services, but doesn’t feel the tech is ready for triple-A experiences yet.

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Gaikai has announced it’s added BestBuy, Capcom, Ubisoft and YouTube to its list of clients, and in the same breath, announced it’s hired former Fox Mobile COO and ex-Sony Digital Pictures CFO, Mark Anderson. In December, it was also announced Eurogamer would be hosting Gaiaki demos, and Origin would host Gaiaki streaming via its portal. Walmart will also host streaming content from Gaiaki on its website. Thanks: GI.biz, VentureBeat.

Major Australian Telco Telstra has confirmed it intends to launch a streaming games service.

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Hastening the day when all games will be delivered to you from the cloud and every Internet outage fills you with rage, Google is adding native control pad support to its browser, Chrome.

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Gamestop senior vice president Mike Mauler has given an outline of how the specialist retail chain’s streaming service will be “pro console”.

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“You don’t want to be a console that doesn’t [do cloud gaming]. This future is coming, trust me. We’re well-funded. This is going to happen. OnLive is already making it happen. You need to be prepared for that.”

Gaikai founder Dave Perry, speaking at GDC Online, as reported by Destructoid, shortly after commenting that releasing hardware without cloud support would be “insane”.

THQ CEO Brian Farrell believes that eventually, consoles will no longer require discs and will instead support cloud gaming, the result of which would mean a reduction in cost for publishers with the savings trickling down to consumers.

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Despite the GameStop ruckus, Square Enix and OnLive’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution deal is already having a positive effect for the cloud gaming service.

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A major update to cloud gaming subscription service OnLive has added some much requested features.

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OnLive UK will go live on September 22, celebrating the launch of its cloud-gaming service with give aways and promotions.

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The daily all-you-eat buffet is great, but sometimes, that parmy on the specials board is tempting. How does a hefty discount sound?

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Gaikai, our very favourite cloud-based streaming games advertising platform, has netted another $30 million in funding.

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“That next generation is seriously in doubt, both boxes are pretty much the same feature set. I don’t think there’s much need for a next-generation console – you’re going to have one box, and you play it on any device like a television or a tablet.”

- Xbox and PS2 hardware developer Rob Wyatt, now chief scientist at 3D streaming cloud service Otoy, speaking to GamesBeat.