Square Enix wants to revolutionize cloud gaming with Project Flare (interview)

When Square Enix announced Project Flare last week, the Japanese company said it would revolutionize gaming through smart use of the cloud.

Call it “cloud gaming 2.0.” It certainly isn’t what OnLive and Gaikai tried to do by streaming games from the Internet to a person’s compatible machine. Rather, Square Enix calls Project Flare a new way to create cloud games, replacing consoles with virtual supercomputers. As such, it is much more of a technological breakthrough than other cloud-gaming systems, said Jacob Navok, director of business development at Square Enix.