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Gaikai and InstantAction team up for streaming, embeddable games

Tridgesee — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:00:00 +0000

If InstantAction.com’s CEO Lou Castle is to be believed, we’re apparently going to be playing games pretty much wherever we want in the not-so-distant future. He’s just revealed plans (via IndustryGamers ) to relaunch his site with a new business/distribution model and a partnership with game streaming service Gaikai . In addition to the already existing model of a quick download (a claimed 4 – 5 minutes) that still somewhat relies on your computer power to process the game’s graphics, IA will now offer a streaming option for those who’d prefer a quicker, less hardware reliant gaming experience. “It’s the perfect implementation of a thin client solution because when it’s available it’s brilliant and when it’s not available it’s ok … you only have to wait a couple minutes.” The aforementioned streaming option (employing Gaikai) will also be embedabble on the web, as demonstrated with Assassin’s Creed (not to mention to us earlier today ) “Now if people are reading a review of a game, they don’t have to go find it ..

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Virtua Fighter, NiGHTS characters in Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing

carballoslim — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:15:00 +0000

Apparently, Sega’s plan is to represent every Sega franchise ever in Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing — except, of course, for Segata Sanshiro . The publisher announced two more playable characters today (well, four , actually, in pairs): Virtua Fighter’ s Akira and Jacky, and Bonanza Bros. ‘ Mobo and Robo. The Virtua guys appear to be riding in a red Ferrari, which would add the OutRun franchise to the list as well. All these reveals are in line with the character portraits found hidden on the website

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Interview: Dan Amrich of Activision community site One of Swords

misterchayniksa — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:15:00 +0000

We don’t envy Dan Amrich. From the moment we heard the former OXM editor was taking on the unenviable task of putting a human face on corporate monolith Activision — through community site One of Swords — we’ve been pressed to imagine how anyone could tackle such a Herculean task.

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So you just got an Xbox 360….now what?

kurkoEbNow — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:19:00 +0000

Game-related startups raise $600 million in 2009, down 36%

Versroapssada — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:15:00 +0000

Game-related startup companies raised $600 million throughout 2009, according to GamesBeat’s analysis . And while $600 million is a lot of money if you’re, say, trying to sell a shooter based on the art of modern warfare, it’s not quite that much when you’re an up-and-coming game developer.

Crackdown 2’s VGA trailer invites you to ‘blow #&$^ up’ with it

jobitagates — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:30:00 +0000

As you might have already guessed, last night’s Spike Video Game Awards show’s “World Premiere” trailers have landed on the web via GameTrailers.com . First up for us this morning: Crackdown 2 (which we’ve dropped just after the break). Featuring the first campaign footage from the game that we’ve seen, it looks as though we’ll be cooperatively taking down enemies with other agents when the game launches

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‘Turbo’ movie trumps Natal, Sphere and Wii MotionPlus

Joseph Rybka — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:00:00 +0000

We talked about the trailer for Turbo back in April, and now director Jarrett Conaway has put the entire short film up on the web for maximum watchability. While it’s a short film, it manages to make a movie about video games look like … a movie about video games (and not some overblown Bay-gasm).

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Arcade: Tower Bloxx Deluxe

largovich — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:45:00 +0000

Interview: SCEA’s Eric Lempel on Amazon’s PSN offerings

plantagovagma — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:30:00 +0000

Yesterday , SCEA announced a partnership with Amazon.com to sell PSN codes through the online retailer. We chatted with Eric Lempel about the deal and how it came to fruition. Lempel revealed to us that the program had been in the works long before Amazon started selling XBLM codes, and said that Sony would be “looking into” offering direct access to the PlayStation Store on the web. Read on for more.

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Kotick: Video games could trump TV and movies within five years

forexrobots — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Profiled on the website of money magazine Barron’s , Activision-Blizzard boss Bobby “Guitar-Toting” Kotick reckons that film and television are living on borrowed time as the most prolific forms of entertainment. Speaking on gaming’s (near) future, he said, “I view the medium as having the potential to eclipse film and television,” going on to tell the article’s author that it could happen within five years. According to the piece, the one element Kotick sees as being crucial to this is rendering believable human characters in real time, something he thinks the next round of consoles will be capable of

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