PC World – Game consoles as you know them could become obsolete sooner than you’d think. Imagine a supersvelte thin-client box that streams HD games in real time over the Internet. Pay a subscription fee and it can run the latest games at reasonably high resolutions on your TV, PC or Mac. We just saw–and tried it–for ourselves. It’s called OnLive.
NewsFactor – A new wireless video-game console is debuting in Brazil. Dubbed Zeebo, its makers are billing it as the first affordable 3-D game console designed specifically for emerging global markets — and it’s backed by Qualcomm.
NewsFactor – Video games in the cloud, without consoles. That’s the vision of a new online video-game network introduced Tuesday by Rearden Studios at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
PC Magazine – Microsoft plans to release Power Pack 2 for Windows Home Server on Tuesday, tying the server more closely to Windows Media Center and extenders like the Xbox 360.
PC World – PhysX is coming to a console near you. Last week, NVIDIA signed an agreement with Sony to provide Playstation 3 developers the use of PhysX technology software. With the goal of realistic graphics and highly interactive environments, level designers and animators will be allowed to author and preview physics effects in real time.
Reuters – Activision said it named Dan Rosensweig, Yahoo former chief operating officer, to run the unit that develops the videogame software maker’s unit popular Guitar Hero franchise.
AFP – California-based Zeebo has unveiled a low-cost videogame console targeted at “the next billion” gamers in developing countries including Brazil and China.
PC Magazine – A startup called Zeebo is marketing a new game console toward emerging markets, only using a 3G wireless network to download new games.
NewsFactor – The Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco will be beeping and buzzing this week as video-game fans, employees and developers gather for Think Services’ annual Game Developers Conference. The GDC, which is expected to attract just under 18,000 attendees, opened Monday and runs through Friday.
AP – A startup called Zeebo Inc. is betting that people in emerging markets want to play good video games just as much as people in the U.S., Western Europe and Japan do.