Gaikai is now live

Posted Feb 28, 2011 at 3:01AM EST by Mabie A.

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Cloud-based gaming service, Gaikai, is now officially live. This was the announcement made by David Perry himself over at his personal blog.

Included in the trial run of the service are Mass Effect 2, The Sims 3 and Spore. Don' think that that's all they have to offer, though. They've got a vast array of choices for those with beta access, and as well as those with dependable Internet connections.

"It's been a TON of work and so to speed up the process ofonboarding games in September 2010 we kicked off a new server design, 'The Raku Server'," said Perry.

"We demonstrated this amazing new custom hardware at CES and let people play (streamed) Battlefield Bad Company II in stereoscopic 3D. We also showed set top boxes running Gaikai, we even had Google TV demo, etc.

At the Game Developers Conference in our meetings we will show some really high-end performance games running at 60hz iwth no work needing to be done by the publishers/ developers. We are really ecited to have finally solved this incredible technical challenge."

He goes on to explain that at the moment, however, their main focus is on their Advertising strategy, "where we can put any game anywhere on the web."

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To complete the explanation of what Gaikai essentially does, for those people who are still left confused about the very nature of its concept, he said:

"We let people try our games, and I'd love to get to the point where we make it so easy that you can try "every" game without lots of friction and pain, downloading, installing, patching, etc.

So our thinking is somewhat like YouTube, as instead of just building a portal to go and watch videos, they decided to focus on putting videos everywhere on the web. We are doing the same with games, so when you read a review on a game, you can try playing it right there on the same page as the review.

Nobody else in the world has achieved this kind of streaming performance directly into browsers, it's technically the most advanced interactive advertising unit in existence, and I'm incredibly proud of my team's accomplishment."

Via [DPerry]

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