In the early 2010s, two companies, OnLive and Gaikai, tried to get PC gamers to abandon their discs and hard drives for streaming services. However, both were later bought by Sony.
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Farewell note confirms that Phil Harrison has officially stepped down as Corporate Vice President of Xbox in Europe. Harrison's replacement not yet named.
Sony's game streaming service will soon be available outside of the company's ecosystem with PlayStation Now landing on Samsung smart TVs next year. Users will be able to stream hundreds of PS3 games.
Microsoft executive Albert Penello said adding Xbox 360 game support to the Xbox One via a cloud server solution was currently too "problematic", but did not rule it out for a future update.
Microsoft Xbox executive Albert Penello said in a recent interview that the cloud servers that connect to the Xbox One could be used to stream games at some point in the future.
Microsoft has posted an online ad looking for a Producer to help with "future initiatives in cloud gaming" that it claims will "drive experiences in gaming that have not been possible before."
A new rumor claims that Sony's next PlayStation console will offer a way to play current PlayStation 3 games but only by a streaming Internet feature powered by Gaikai, which Sony bought in 2012.
A new report, via unnamed sources, claims that the OnLive streaming PC game service just had an average of 1,800 concurrent users, even as the company reorganizes and lays off many of its employees.
Sony has bought the streaming game service Gaikai for $380 million, as Sony looks to the cloud as a future way to distribute games. Sony hints that streaming game support is coming to its consoles.
The PC streaming game service Gaikai is rumored to be up for sale, with the same report claiming that its owners are looking for an offer that is over $500 million.
A new rumor claims that Sony will announce a deal at E3 2012 with either OnLive or Gaikai that would add game cloud streaming features to current Playstation hardware.
NVIDIA has announced its plans to launch VGX, a new cloud-based PC graphics technology that it claims will bring higher end graphics and software to low end PCs.
The Gaikai streaming PC game service has announced a new partnership with Wikipad that will allow the upcoming portable gaming device to stream games from Gaikai.
Gaikai has launched its Facebook app which allows PC, Mac and Linux web-based users to stream free PC game demos directly from Facebook. The app will work in North America and Europe.
Gaikai has launched a streaming demo of the PC version of Mass Effect 3, allowing pretty much anyone to get a taste of the acclaimed sci-fi RPG from BioWare.
The streaming game service Gaikai announced at CES 2012 this week that it has a new agreement with LG to provide streaming PC games to LG's Cinema 3D TV later in 2012.
The trend to offering PC games via cloud-based broadband streaming services appears to be gaining steam, at least as far as investors are concerned. This week one of the two leading streaming game companies, Gaikai,...
Currently the concept of playing games via a streaming cloud-based service is in its infancy but according to Steve Perlman the CEO of OnLive, playing games via a cloud server could replace all other ways...
Everyone enjoy their long holiday? Good, because it looks like there will be more than one big announcement in the gaming world in the next few days. In the meantime check out these news nuggets: The...
In the business of streaming PC games, OnLive might be the biggest company but its biggest rival Gaikai is aiming to take a chuck of this growing market. Today Venture Beat reports that Gaikai has...
