Montreal developer Ubisoft electrified a crowd of 5,000 on Friday night with its back-to-back presentations of Splinter Cell: Conviction and Assassin’s Creed II. The Sam Fisher game was first, with Creative Director Max Beland giving the presentation. He stressed that this Splinter Cell will change the way people play stealth-based games. According to Beland, typical [...]
During GDC 2009 OnLive was one of the talks of the show. It promised the ability to stream games at high quality with no lag over the internet without the use of consoles or high powered home PC’s. Not too long after OnLive was announced David Perry, now an executive video game industry consultant, showed the world his own games on demand service called Gaikai. Gaikai works in ways similar to OnLive but doesn’t require any plug-in to install.
Perry demoed Gaikai behind closed doors at E3 2009 and now we get to see what some major publishers have already experienced on Perry’s blog. During this video demonstration of Gaikai Perry plays Mario Kart, Spore, World of Warcraft, Need for Speed ProStreet and EVE Online through the Mozilla Firefox web browser on Windows Vista.
Perry will be talking more about the business model behind Gaikai at the Develop and GDC Europe conferences in the coming months.
