Eurogamer launches Gaikai game streaming
Titles like Crysis 2 and FIFA 12 now available to gamers
Eurogamer and Gaikai have partnered to provide free game streaming of AAA titles like Crysis 2 and FIFA 12.
"Gaikai's goal is to put the best games in the world at the fingertips of the best gamers in the world," says David Perry, Gaikai CEO.
"Eurogamer has an incredibly passionate audience and we expect they will make great use of our instant gaming technology."
Titles like Magicka and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings are also available now, with more games becoming available in the near future.
"Being able to stream AAA games through a browser would have been unimaginable just a few years ago and we're thrilled to be able to offer this to our readers," added Eurogamer operations director Tom Bramwell.
The service is also planned to extend to Eurogamer's sites in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Czech Republic.
Game streaming service Gaikai is currently aiming for 100 million users by 2012. In an interviewwith GamesIndustry.biz in September, Perry spoke about the potential of the service.
"The ability to pull a lever and have a million people play your game is something that's crazy to even think about today. That's a very difficult problem, yet with cloud gaming that will be really quite straight forward. A normal way of thinking will be, 'I want another million and another million.'"
Your bandwidth is not sufficient to stream a high quality experience. Please turn off other Internet-enabled applications or devices and try again. "
Epic fail if a solid 10Mbit cable connection cant deliver.
As far as buying a full cloud product? Meh... I'm really struggling to see this moving forward. But in 6 or 10 years? Possible... a lot of consumer culture can change in that time.
D/L = 44.53 Mbps
U/L = 5.79
i have 100Mbit line and above speedtest was over wifi (n) done seconds after i got the:
"Sorry...
Your bandwidth is not sufficient to stream a high quality experience. Please turn off other Internet-enabled applications or devices and try again. "
message...)
If i cant play it on my line then they might as well give up now, this service is useless...
retested with wired connection, using a gigabit network:
Ping = 32
D/L = 94.92
U/L = 5.57
AND I STILL DON'T HAVE ENOUGH BANDWIDTH? seriously?
If so, rest assured your connection results will feed into our expansion plans. :-)
Kabel Deutschland 6Mbit: Works fine, stream has a lot of artifacts. Lag is noticeable, though not a dealbreaker. Beats playing Bejeweled on your netbook, I suppose.
Kabel Deutschland 32 Mbit: Fewer artifacts, same lag.
150 Mbit synchronous fiber optic connection: Lag on par with wireless keyboard and mouse system. Less lag than KD. On a 4000€/month line, this is actually quite close to playing it on a 1000€ computer. For the moment, I still go with the local computer. :D
I bet there will be some company calls this week on how to firewall this thing. High ping ADSL connections might be more of a problem than bandwidth. Can't wait to get my hands on an Asus Transformer Prime in the future and test this again. I just don't understand why there aren't more games where lag is less of a problem, such as Civ5, or Sins of a Solar Empire. The catalog is rather twitch centric.
Tried again on IE, and after some installation/plugin update time, I had the same error as everyone : not enough bandwith, and this with an effective 10MB wired connection.
I have no doubt it will work at some point, unfortunately a launch like this, without enough tests before, will just put a bad reputation on the service for the player community.
Much like Ryan said it must be something to do with your distance from the server, as I'm in Nottingham I probably have one fairly close as its in the middle of the country.
I have to second what Brian said too - it's pretty impressive for the seniokr guys at Gaikai to be feeding back on online publications like this!
Good luck with it guys and David, if you can make this happen....surely a Messiah HD remake wouldn't be impossible?
Please?
Pretty please?