Cloud gaming gets mainstream boost

Walmart is partnering with game streaming company Gaikai to offer online gaming to Web site visitors, direct to site users Web browsers in the same way that YouTube streams videos, this is according to The Independant.

Reuters reports that Gaikai has licences for most of Electronic Arts (EA) game catalogue and has signed with Walmart to stream games on the retailer's Web store. The company charges video game publishers based on minutes of game play on its network.

Gaikai can also embed games in Facebook pages, allowing users to play high-end games within Facebook pages.

With streamed games, the actual game runs in Gaikai's servers in the Internet cloud, or Web-connected data centres.

Changes to the game are executed on the servers and then sent over broadband connections to a user's computer, reports Venturebeat.com.

Gaikai co-founder David Perry revealed that many more sites like Walmart would be collaborating with the open cloud gaming platform.

Gaikai allows gamers to play the latest games on any Internet-connected device without having to download or install.

All that you would need to do is, make sure that you have a fast Internet connection, and then you would just need to click and play says walyou.com.