The growth in consumer acceptance of mobile devices opens up the opportunity for location-based gaming.
Onlive is to launch its cloud-based gaming service in the UK on 22 September.
Somehow his research took him to Jackpot.com, a U.S.-based gaming website that was launched in April.
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So then the question is how they should sell cloud based gaming to their customers.
Cloud-based gaming company OnLive recently and without any warning laid off its entire staff.
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Notable features include Xbox SmartGlass, Blu-ray support, 3-D glasses, cloud-based gaming and an improved Kinect system.
Last year, Sony bought Gakai, a cloud-based gaming company that let PC gamers stream top games via broadband.
It does not mean that app-based gaming is crowding out other gaming, however.
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Jan Jones is senior VP for government relations with the Nevada-based gaming company.
Investors simply do not believe Zynga online gaming is a sustainable business, especially Facebook-based gaming, which is now hated by investors.
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But you would also likely see sets powerful enough to support some impressive app- and cloud-based gaming, as with the iPad.
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Bigpoint has built its success by circumventing Facebook to deliver 3D browser-based gaming experiences directly to consumers via PCs, tablets and smartphones.
In a completely different approach from its predecessors The Run is a combination of simulation based gaming along with arcade style street racing.
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Anders said much of the growing demand for gaming stems from server-based gaming--software-based applications used for slots and video gaming machines--which bodes well for manufacturer International Game Technology.
Where touch-based gaming suffers is your finger obstructing the view.
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What does this say about the viability of cloud-based gaming?
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Sony has confirmed it is acquiring cloud-based gaming service Gaikai.
Excluding online or browser based gaming, the console market in the Middle East is by far the more dominant gaming platform with PC game sales representing less than 15% of overall sales.
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In 2008, the company launched YY, a voice-based gaming communications service, which enabled gamers to voice chat over the Internet and text chat in real-time while slaying monsters or coordinating gaming missions.
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Bower's company took the idea of an Android-based gaming tablet with a proprietary, physical (and removable) gamepad from concept to reality in the last year, first revealing the tablet at CES 2012.
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Our goal wasn't just to focus on the underlying technology and improved hardware performance, as other makers of Android-based gaming hardware do, but to really try to address the needs of our users.
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Servers used to stream video, offer cloud-based gaming, carry out facial recognition and other more complicated tasks would be best off using x86-based chips, he added, at least for the next few years.
Nvidia, which has made its name providing high-powered graphics chips, introduced the new generation of its Tegra processor and also announced its own Android-based gaming device and said it will sell it direct to consumers.
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Mike Ambinder is the company's very own experimental psychologist and he's been outlining some of Valve's work with biofeedback technology, including eye-motion controls for Portal 2 and perspiration-based gaming adjustments on Left 4 Dead.
Stepping up to that plate, the folks at PC Perspective loaded up Vista on a pair of ATI and NVIDIA-based gaming rigs to see if one played more nicely with the OS than the other.
Anders said much of the growing demand for gaming stems from server-based gaming--software-based applications used for slots and video gaming machines--which bodes well for manufacturer International Game Technology (nyse: IGT - news - people ).
The Dublin-based gaming company better known for giving some 60, 000 subscribers the ability to wager on ponies, sporting events and the outcome of celebrity criminal trials online, wants to offer trading in weather events, credit risks and economic indicators.
The flexibility of cloud-based gaming has always been the central pin of its proponents' arguments, but with the boast that his firm could take the lead in this area, Grove is hinting at the direction OnLive is focusing on.
But as was the case in console-based gaming, the Chinese government has intervened, says Ning Liu, an analyst at BDA. Licensing of new versions of foreign games has been delayed, and local firms have gradually learnt to develop their own products.
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