Gaikai - Good news for linux and games?

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There is already a thread about this over in PC games but I'd like to get a linux perspective on this. Do you think this will fill in the gap for games on linux? All you need is a browser and flash to play it. In this video the guy plays WOW, EVE and Mario Kart 64 :D. He also shows photoshop. CoD4 is on the list of games so you can play FPS games too.

Gaikai - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-w56hQxmnY

It looks amazing.

Onlive have their service due out soon but only runs on a PC and mac.
 
I'm intrigued.. Flash doesn't run very efficiently (at least on this system) and is known to be "behind" Windows and Mac. Still, if it works it'll be great. :) Not just because it'll let us linux users play our games without wine/cedega but also because we'll benefit from not needing to buy the game from a shop and/or download gigs of media. :)
 
looks pretty funky.

Flash runs pretty well on my box (x64 sabayon using native, albeit beta, version of flash), but basically what Jestar said - it's not as good as if I was running windows.
 
I think this is a brilliant idea, no more DRM crap installed on Win/Lin/Mac, and you can play games when your away from home. Only thing is, needs to be affordable and perhaps BT's roll out of broadband in the UK will help :)
Edit: Also be good to keep savegames in the cloud as when I format, I may loose them if i forget to back up.
 
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I thought this idea has been around for a while - isn't there a service that'll let you play games in a browser remotely but it streams it from another PC you run instead of their own server? The name escapes me i'm afraid.
 
Would be interesting to know how their servers handle the load of 100 people playing a graphics intensive game. Maybe they made some kind of video driver that renders direct to flash, that would be cool :) Nice idea though.

Six-leaf, yes it has been done before as you said, cant remember the software either.
 
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I remember reading a while back about a console based on this model - just a thin client with a broadband connection.

I think it's a good idea though. I very rarely play games and every time I dust off the PS3 I have to sit there and wait for games to patch themselves. At least a hosted solution would solve that problem!
 
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/27/gaikai-beta-goes-live-brings-mass-effect-2-dead-space-2-sims

Tried out Dead Space 2 live from my browser and it worked pretty damn well considering I only have 6.6MB Download and 700kb Upload I'm impressed with the slight decompression in the video every 90 seconds or so and less lag than I sometimes get in FIFA I look forward to the future. Just a little gutted I'm out of fibre optic range by about 4 miles or I'd probably look forward to online as well.

(If you want to try it out click on Demo (2) and just answer the survey questions then it takes you to the DS2 demo.
 
Very impressed with this ran it on windows and also on linux great way to try games. Never played dead space 2 and jesus I crapped myself at the first enemy :D
 
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