Neowin News Feed for: Gaikai

A quick look back at the first major streaming PC game companies, Gaikai and OnLive

John Callaham — Sun, 28 May 2023 15:00:01 +0000

In the early 2010s, two companies, OnLive and Gaikai, tried to get PC gamers to abandon their discs and hard drives for streaming services. However, both were later bought by Sony. Read more...

Xbox Europe VP Phil Harrison has left Microsoft

Chris Schroeder — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 19:06:01 +0000

Farewell note confirms that Phil Harrison has officially stepped down as Corporate Vice President of Xbox in Europe. Harrison's replacement not yet named. Read more...

Sony's PlayStation Now game streaming service coming to Samsung smart TVs

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 09:32:01 +0000

Sony's game streaming service will soon be available outside of the company's ecosystem with PlayStation Now landing on Samsung smart TVs next year. Users will be able to stream hundreds of PS3 games. Read more...

Microsoft: Xbox 360 game support on Xbox One via the cloud is "problematic"

John Callaham — Sat, 09 Nov 2013 23:20:07 +0000

Microsoft executive Albert Penello said adding Xbox 360 game support to the Xbox One via a cloud server solution was currently too "problematic", but did not rule it out for a future update. Read more...

Microsoft: Xbox One could in theory stream games from the cloud

John Callaham — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 16:37:28 +0000

Microsoft Xbox executive Albert Penello said in a recent interview that the cloud servers that connect to the Xbox One could be used to stream games at some point in the future. Read more...

Microsoft hiring for future "cloud gaming" initiative

John Callaham — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:09:27 +0000

Microsoft has posted an online ad looking for a Producer to help with "future initiatives in cloud gaming" that it claims will "drive experiences in gaming that have not been possible before." Read more...

Rumor: PS4 to offer streaming access to PS3 games

John Callaham — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 06:01:45 +0000

A new rumor claims that Sony's next PlayStation console will offer a way to play current PlayStation 3 games but only by a streaming Internet feature powered by Gaikai, which Sony bought in 2012. Read more...

Onlive reportedly only has 1,800 concurrent users

John Callaham — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 21:02:11 +0000

A new report, via unnamed sources, claims that the OnLive streaming PC game service just had an average of 1,800 concurrent users, even as the company reorganizes and lays off many of its employees. Read more...

Gaikai acquired by Sony for $380 million

John Callaham — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:36:28 +0000

Sony has bought the streaming game service Gaikai for $380 million, as Sony looks to the cloud as a future way to distribute games. Sony hints that streaming game support is coming to its consoles. Read more...

Gaikai rumored to be for sale; looking for over $500 million

John Callaham — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:15:57 +0000

The PC streaming game service Gaikai is rumored to be up for sale, with the same report claiming that its owners are looking for an offer that is over $500 million. Read more...

Sony rumored to announce streaming game deal at E3 2012

John Callaham — Thu, 24 May 2012 16:13:20 +0000

A new rumor claims that Sony will announce a deal at E3 2012 with either OnLive or Gaikai that would add game cloud streaming features to current Playstation hardware. Read more...

NVIDIA announces VGX cloud-based PC graphics solution

John Callaham — Thu, 17 May 2012 05:28:20 +0000

NVIDIA has announced its plans to launch VGX, a new cloud-based PC graphics technology that it claims will bring higher end graphics and software to low end PCs. Read more...

Gaikai to offer streaming games on Wikipad

John Callaham — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:36:08 +0000

The Gaikai streaming PC game service has announced a new partnership with Wikipad that will allow the upcoming portable gaming device to stream games from Gaikai. Read more...

Gaikai launches streaming PC game demos on Facebook

John Callaham — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:28:14 +0000

Gaikai has launched its Facebook app which allows PC, Mac and Linux web-based users to stream free PC game demos directly from Facebook. The app will work in North America and Europe. Read more...

Stream Mass Effect 3 PC demo now via Gaikai

John Callaham — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:47:08 +0000

Gaikai has launched a streaming demo of the PC version of Mass Effect 3, allowing pretty much anyone to get a taste of the acclaimed sci-fi RPG from BioWare. Read more...

Gaikai to offer streaming PC games on LG TVs in 2012

John Callaham — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:02:56 +0000

The streaming game service Gaikai announced at CES 2012 this week that it has a new agreement with LG to provide streaming PC games to LG's Cinema 3D TV later in 2012. Read more...

Gaikai secures $30 million in more funding

John Callaham — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:26:08 +0000

The trend to offering PC games via cloud-based broadband streaming services appears to be gaining steam, at least as far as investors are concerned. This week one of the two leading streaming game companies, Gaikai,... Read more...

OnLive CEO: Cloud-based games to replace all others in 10 years

John Callaham — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:02:51 +0000

Currently the concept of playing games via a streaming cloud-based service is in its infancy but according to Steve Perlman the CEO of OnLive, playing games via a cloud server could replace all other ways... Read more...

Gaming news round up: July 5

John Callaham — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:40:51 +0000

Everyone enjoy their long holiday? Good, because it looks like there will be more than one big announcement in the gaming world in the next few days. In the meantime check out these news nuggets: The... Read more...

Gaikai gets deal to stream game demos via Walmart.com

John Callaham — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:07:49 +0000

In the business of streaming PC games, OnLive might be the biggest company but its biggest rival Gaikai is aiming to take a chuck of this growing market. Today Venture Beat reports that Gaikai has... Read more...