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Just tried this and its incredible:

http://www.gaikai.com

I did not find any topics about it here. You can play all kinds of state of the art 3D games for free without installing them right in the browser. Incredible

Someone got hacked.

not to mention Sony just bought them. Huzzah for Sony!

Sony just bought it. I had no idea something like this really works

Hasn't OnLive ( http://www.onlive.co.uk/ ) been doing this sort of thing for years ?

Sony might finally be starting to turn the corner and get back on track with this - the biggest implication for this will come at E3 next year when they will probably reveal the PlayStation 4 (or whatever it's called), and show off a new game for it, and then tell the audience it's playable now, via Gaikai in their current PS3 (bandwidth connection permitting, of course).

how long can you try for free?

People won't be able to pirate or buy second hand games any more? You won't even own what you pay for, having to rent it and pay multiple times for the same game. It's funny because you can read old interviews with Shigeru Miyamoto from the 90s predicting all this stuff. The next step will be selling us dumb terminals without a CPU or ram, so that home programmers are powerless and the government has control over the data flow on computer networks. It's a good time to give up on virtual realities.

Wait so with this I could play Mass Effect 3 for free?!

  On 7/2/2012 at 11:04 PM, ghOsty said:

Wait so with this I could play Mass Effect 3 for free?!

yes even if your computer is not fast enough

I've just tried trackmania canyon. It's not seemless and I certainly don't think this will be the future of gaming, but it would be a nice way to present demo's for sure.

  On 7/2/2012 at 7:14 PM, sneaksta303 said:

how long can you try for free?

  On 7/2/2012 at 7:01 PM, Joyrex said:

Sony might finally be starting to turn the corner and get back on track with this - the biggest implication for this will come at E3 next year when they will probably reveal the PlayStation 4 (or whatever it's called), and show off a new game for it, and then tell the audience it's playable now, via Gaikai in their current PS3 (bandwidth connection permitting, of course).

Btw regarding next-next-gen, I can tell you our studio is starting to work on it now, and some of the tech specs are just insane. It's going to put a huge burden on artists, tbh.

Is this the thing where you are locally playing something on another computer somewhere else?

It'll never work because of the latency is something like 500ms minimum. Unplayable for most gaming types.

Wait what?

  On 7/3/2012 at 12:37 AM, sneaksta303 said:

  On 7/2/2012 at 7:14 PM, sneaksta303 said:

how long can you try for free?

30 minutes each game? So they're basically demos.

I was really amazed that this works. Though there are some problems (my internet connections seems to be quite slow and the service is overrun by a lot of people sometimes) it works amazingly well and thanks to WATMM i could play the latest need for speed for free. Crazy technology. I would have never thought that this would work - how do they compensate the latency?

They can't. That's why it's almost never multiplayer games.

Here's a review of the 'onlive' service that this seems to mirror:

  On 7/3/2012 at 12:50 AM, lumpenprol said:

  On 7/2/2012 at 7:01 PM, Joyrex said:

Sony might finally be starting to turn the corner and get back on track with this - the biggest implication for this will come at E3 next year when they will probably reveal the PlayStation 4 (or whatever it's called), and show off a new game for it, and then tell the audience it's playable now, via Gaikai in their current PS3 (bandwidth connection permitting, of course).

 

Btw regarding next-next-gen, I can tell you our studio is starting to work on it now, and some of the tech specs are just insane. It's going to put a huge burden on artists, tbh.

Interesting to know - by burden, you mean in creating textures, models, etc. - essentially the assets for the game's visuals?

Funny how it's come full circle - graphics (and the creation of them) were always the most time-consuming aspect of classic video games, and now due to the insane detail in models and textures, it once again becomes the most time-consuming aspect since engines like Unreal, Havoc and Square's new engine (not to mention Konami's engine) seem to handle all the complex physics and interaction aspects of the games these days.