Gaikai promises to stream PC games like WoW straight to your browser

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David Perry is one of those game developers who doesn’t do anything small — he started out with a company called Shiny Entertainment , responsible for great old games like Earthworm Jim, MDK, Messiah , and the Enter the Matrix movie tie-in game, and nowadays he’s moved on to the MMO market, where he’s developed all kinds of crazy ideas (including, we’re not kidding, a dance MMO ). This is the kind of guy who has ideas and chases them down. His latest idea is a system called Gaikai , a “game streaming service” that allows players to jump right into any PC games they’d like, no installation or hard drive space necessary, online. There are a number of services like this springing up lately, including the much-discussed OnLive , where instead of depending on your local hardware to render and produce the game you’re playing, you just send and recieve information with a remote server. As you can see above, Gaikai is focusing on PC games, and anyone who’s planning on running a PC gaming service has to include World of Warcraft . Starting at about 6:00 into the video above, he shows off a version of WoW that requires no installation or loading at all; just sign in and play. Continue reading Gaikai promises to stream PC games like WoW straight to your browser Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Odds and ends , Blizzard , Hardware Gaikai promises to stream PC games like WoW straight to your browser originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read