It looks like OnLive will have a competitor for this type of service, from the Games publisher Acclaim:
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David Perry, chief creative officer at Acclaim and an active game entrepreneur, said he has a new company dubbed Gaikai that’s trying to do the same thing as OnLive but without some of its drawbacks.
“I was going to reveal it at [the E3 trade show], but the OnLive news has forced my hand,” said Perry, whose new project is not associated with Acclaim.
OnLive has a big head start. Entrepreneur Steve Perlman started it more than seven years ago and now has working demos of a service that enables server-based game play, where the game computing happens on a central server and game images are sent instantaneously to the gamer’s display. The technology speeds the flow of data so much that Perlman said high-end games can play on low-end hardware. A lot of executives I talked to in the past day are skeptical that Perlman can pull it off, but all agree it could be a huge disruptive force if it works, enabling digital distribution of games that bypasses retail. Perlman has deals with a bunch of publishers who are showing 16 working games at the GDC. He has raised money from Maverick Capital, Warner Bros., and Autodesk.
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You can read the full news article here:
http://venturebeat.com/2009/03/25/on...-a-competitor/
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