Games developer, Dave Perry, has shown a tantalising glimpse of how Blizzard's World of Warcraft can be played on an Apple iPad.
The game is streaming to the iPad from a Gaikai server over Wi-Fi, according to Perry.
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Perry posted the picture you can see right here on his blog to prove that he has World of Warcraft running on the iPad.
"Was walking through the office, saw this, thought you'd like to see," teased the Gaikai boss.
"We're really interested to see what works well with streaming and will be trying just about every genre of game, on every device possible as we explore server-side computing," noted Perry.
Gaikai is slated for a public launch later in 2010.
Via 1UP.
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nitebot
May 5th 2010
4. This Gaikai thing won't work for the masses anyway just like OnLive won't work.
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d4lien
May 4th 2010
3. Wow what a bargain... £500 or so to play a game that can run on a cheap PC or laptop... Now I know someone is going to say " Yeah but it's portable" Blah blah Blah...
Frankly if you can't do without WoW whilst on the train etc then you have serious problems.
Anyway I'm not a geek, I'm a level 6 Captain in STO.
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awjr
May 4th 2010
2. Dunno about anyone else, but I need a 3 button mouse, ctl/alt/shift to modify the button click to change the 'spell' being cast, full set of number keys and most of the rest of the keyboard to actually play the game.
It's one of the reasons porting to consoles has been considered a bad idea.
Anyone coming to a 25 man raid harping on about how they were running this on an iPad would definitely get kicked.
However getting an iPad to actually window into another computer, running Flash/Java/Silverlight, so I can have the full experience of the web.....now there's a thought.
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watcherzero
May 3rd 2010
1. Imagine your latency.
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