Playing In The Clouds: A Gamer’s New Paradise Long ago and far away, the home game of Pong brought families together around the television that up until then was only accomplished by a celebrity’s death, a monumental speech, or the moon landing. From there, the game console industry began to grow by leaps and bounds. Soon enough, names like Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and Super Mario became commonplace. As the gaming and game hardware technology advanced, possibilities opened up that could never been imagined—such as multiplayer games, networked gaming, and team conferencing. Cloud gaming, the greatest innovation since World of Warcraft,
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Cloud Apps of the Week Major cloud gaming platform OnLive is stretching out of its interactive video background and into competitive pool of applications designed for the iPad. Its freshly released app, entitled OnLive Desktop, will enable users to use their laptops’ system of Windows 7 directly on their tablet screen. In short, the entire suite of Microsoft Office programs, including Word, PowerPoint, and Media Player, can be accessed via OnLive’s app through the iPad. Those who download the app, free of purchase on iTunes app store as of last Thursday, are privy to an inviting 2GB of free storage
Cloud Gaming: Making the Joystick Airborne I should just come out with it. The last video game system I purchased was a Nintendo 64, back in the early 2000s. No, I am not a bells-and-whistles type of gamer, by any stretch of the imagination. But yes, I do have an opinion on this sizable, influential community. Video games are a means by which a great many of us escape the reality of our sometimes disappointing lives. And according to several updat es in tech news, the cloud will revolutionize just how quickly gamers can tap into that escape: the celebration
Gaming on the Cloud “Gaming is no child’s play; it’s big business!” Quick, what’s the first thing that comes to mind when you visualize gaming? If you are thinking “unsocial teenager whose only exercise is moving his fingers on the computer keyboard”, you are wrong. While unsocial teenagers do comprise a big chunk of the gaming market, the appeal of video/computer games transcends demographics. Gaming’s universal appeal is why it racks up the big numbers. Since the last two years, gaming has been bringing in more revenue than Hollywood. Individual titles have outperformed the biggest blockbusters, and the trend is
Much awaited cloud launch in the UK for 2011: Cloud gaming By CloudTweaks Tuesday, December 21st, 2010 - 2011 will be a much awaited year for all the gamers. The concept of cloud gaming came into practicality only recently when companies like OnLive launched a cloud gaming platform in the US, this summer. With most revolutionary ideas revolving around cloud services, names like OnLive are bent on providing gaming services to all the people who’d rather play Crysis 2 on the internet than to play it on their low- end system that can hardly support Dave 2 graphics. OnLive is
Cloud Gaming: An easier and effective method for gamers? Ever thought of playing Call of Duty 4 on your iPad? Seems exciting doesn’t it? Running Need for Speed shift on your low-end machine can be a stimulating thought for most gamers. With the revolution of cloud computing, where everything you need is hosted on the web, cloud gaming has the potential of taking the gaming world by storm. Cloud gaming is a variation of online gaming in which games are directly streamed onto a computer. The game itself resides on a server provider’s computer and a client helps the streaming
