Could Cloud’s iconic sword from Final Fantasy 7 be real? (video)
In the classic title Final Fantasy VII, main character Cloud Strife wields a massive sword that's roughly the length of his body. Could this sword actually be used in real-life combat?
How Activision uses Salesforce.com for engaging with (complaining) gamers
Salesforce.com chief executive Marc Benioff relates how his company transformed the social support infrastructure at Activision Blizzard, the publisher of the Call of Duty games and an enterprise with $4.8 billion in annual sales.
A little late for OnLive? AMD introduces its most powerful server graphics cards
AMD is launching high-end graphics cards aimed at reducing power consumption and operating costs in data centers.
Electronic Arts envisions a future free of platform shackles
EA believes gaming's future will prune away the barriers of the walled garden.
Review: The futuristic OnLive Desktop runs Windows apps on the iPad
The current state of computing is always under scrutiny and speculation. For years laptop and desktop computers have been proclaimed dead, most recently in...
The zCloud revisited: lessons from Zynga’s public-private cloud experience
Recently, we were proud to publicly unveil the private cloud computing infrastructure that we use to scale our social games — infrastructure that we...
Google Chrome upgrades: Gamepad & WebRTC support coming in 2012
Google is set to add plug-and-play gamepad support to its Chrome web browser early next year, Develop reports. Google developer advocate Paul Kinlan also...
Otoy teams up with Autodesk to create cloud-rendering platform
Otoy has partnered with creativity tools maker Autodesk to create next-generation cloud rendering tools that will make film making, 3D designs, and video games easier,...
OnLive CEO says his pet wireless project has sub-millisecond latency
The head of streaming game service OnLive, Steve Perlman, said his new wireless data transmission technology will be so fast that the latency will...
OnLive demonstrates high-end cloud gaming on tablets and smartphones
OnLive announced today that it can run high-quality video games on tablets. The company’s online games-on-demand service can also render Adobe’s Flash multimedia format...