Tag Archives: cloud
Tue, Jun 11, 2013 | 04:35 BST
PlayStation’s cloud gaming services will be available in 2014 beginning in the US
Sony will launch its Gaikai cloud service on PS4 and PS3 followed by Vita. It will grant immediate access to a catalog of PS3 games and it will spread and expand rapidly, Sony said. The cloud-based features on PS4 will launch sometime in early 2014.
Sat, Jun 08, 2013 | 20:47 BST
Bushnell a little “nervous about” always-online emphasis
Industry legend Nolan Bushnell has said he’s a bit worried over an always-online future, especially should games stored to the cloud be lost forever if a company decides to shut a server down.
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Posted in: Development, Xbox One
Tags: Always Online, cloud, digital, Nolan Bushnell
Wed, May 29, 2013 | 09:45 BST
Xbox One has “CPU and storage equivalent of three consoles on the cloud”
Xbox One will support cloud technology and according to Xbox incubation and prototyping group manager Jeff Henshaw, the cloud will provide developers with the CPU and storage equivalent of three extra consoles.
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Posted in: Microsoft, Xbox One
Tags: cloud, Jeff Henshaw
Tue, May 21, 2013 | 05:11 BST
Cloud’s horribly impractical sword has been created in the real world
In Final Fantasy VII, Cloud carries around like a really big sword. It’s as big as he is really, and I’ve often wondered how he could even hold the thing. Now, the guy who made a real-life version of the Minecraft diamond sword built this Buster sword, and it is completely ridiculous. Video inside.
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Posted in: PC, PSN, RPG, Square Enix
Tags: cloud, final fantasy vii, sword
Sat, Feb 23, 2013 | 22:10 GMT
PS4: physical releases to have digital option, possibility of game “packages” in the future – Yoshida
Sony is shifting its platform “more and more” to the digital side of things, according to worldwide studios president Shuhei Yoshida. So much so, that every physical game released for PS4 will also be available as a digital download.
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Posted in: PS4, Sony
Tags: cloud, Gaikai subs, PSN subs, Shuhei Yoshida, streaming
Sat, Feb 16, 2013 | 13:52 GMT
PS4 – another report claims the console will use Gaikai to stream games
The WSJ is reporting that PS4 will use Gaikai to stream games specifically for “current PlayStation 3 titles” on the new console, but will also using traditional disc-based methods to play games.
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Posted in: Gaikai, PS4, Sony
Tags: cloud, ps4 gaikai, ps4 rumors, streaming
Fri, Jan 11, 2013 | 00:08 GMT
Microsoft’s London studio nixing packaged for connected products
Microsoft’s European VP Phil Harrison has announced the firm’s new London Studio, Lift London, which will focus on cloud gaming instead of physical releases.
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Posted in: Development, Games for Windows, Kinect, Microsoft, Tablets, Trade, UK, Windows Phone 8, Xbox 360, Xbox Live
Tags: cloud, Lift London, Microsoft Studios London, Phil Harrison
Tue, Aug 14, 2012 | 17:08 BST
Need for Speed: Most Wanted introduces CloudCompete
Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Criterion’s new racer, challenges players to gain the Most Wanted level, even when they’re away from the console.
Thu, Jun 07, 2012 | 18:23 BST
Gaming will go cloud-based “someday”, says MS’s Spencer
Microsoft Studios boss Phil Spencer has said all gaming will be based in the cloud “someday”, but stressed that day is far out for now.
Thu, Jun 07, 2012 | 09:43 BST
EnMasse teams up with Gaikai to offer streaming Tera demo
EnMasse Entertainment has teamed up with cloud gaming service Gaikai to offer an instantly playable demo of the action-combat MMORPG Tera.
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Posted in: Action, Browser-Based, Gaikai, MMO, PC, RPG
Tags: cloud, EnMasse Entertainment, TERA
Wed, May 30, 2012 | 18:53 BST
Rumour: Sony close to “cloud gaming firm” buyout
MCV‘s reporting that Sony is reportedly close to acquiring what it says is a “high profile cloud gaming firm”.
Mon, Nov 14, 2011 | 20:54 GMT
“Cloud specific things” on its way to Xbox, says MS exec
The cloud is on its way to Xbox, according to Microsoft exec Brian Prince.
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Posted in: Microsoft, Xbox 360
Tags: Brian Prince, cloud
Thu, Oct 06, 2011 | 15:13 BST
Kojima: AR and the cloud are the way of the future
Hideo Kojima has suggested the future will consist of augmented reality and the cloud are going to be part of the future.
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Posted in: Konami
Tags: AR, augmented reality, cloud, hideo kojima, kojima productions
Thu, Mar 10, 2011 | 09:28 GMT
PS3 to get Online Storage cloud-save service now live
Online Storage, a cloud-save system for PS3, has launched exclusively for PlayStation Plus members.
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Posted in: PS3, Sony
Tags: cloud, online storage
Sat, Jan 29, 2011 | 08:50 GMT
Rumour: PlayStation cloud-saving a Plus-only Firmware 3.60 feature
Kotaku’s rumouring that the inevitable future need to cloud-save PlayStation games will be a subs-only feature.
Tue, Jan 04, 2011 | 19:26 GMT
OnLive discounted 33% through January 9, surround sound coming soon
OnLive has announced it’s not only partnering with SRS Labs to deliver surround sound to users of its service in early 2011, but that until January 9 you can get 33 percent off the OnLive game system along with a free game of your choice.
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Posted in: hardware
Tags: cloud, onlive, srs surround sound
Thu, Dec 02, 2010 | 19:55 GMT
Mass Effect 2 looks like it runs rather well on a netbook when using Gaikai
Want to know how Gaikai works or how it will run a game like Mass Effect 2 on a netbook with a “single core Atom CPU”?
Engadget has you covered.
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Posted in: Internet, PC, hardware
Tags: cloud, Cloud Gaming Service, dave perry, gaikai
Thu, Dec 02, 2010 | 15:45 GMT
OnLive’s $10 per month flat-rate game plan launches January 15
OnLive Game System shipments have begun, and soon, so will a $9.99 per month flat-rate gaming plan from the service.
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Posted in: PC, hardware, tv
Tags: cloud, cloud gaming, onlive, onlive game system, onlive playpack, streaming games
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 | 17:26 GMT
Soderlund: Crysis and BFBC2 look just as good through OnLive as “the highest end PC”
EA senior VP Patrick Soderlund has seen how games like Crysis and Bad Company 2 look using OnLive, and he feels the games look “exactly like they would” on the “highest end PC”.
Wed, Nov 17, 2010 | 09:16 GMT
Gaikai enters open beta with 11,000 invites
David Perry’s confirmed that Cloud gaming service Gaikai has now entered open beta, with an initial round of 11,000 invites having been already sent out.
EA won’t resurrect Online Pass system following Xbox One policy change