WoW Played in Google TV Via Cloud Gaming
It's World of Warcraft streamed onto Google TV via a host PC.
Over the weekend Aftercad announced that Blizzard's World of Warcraft can be played on Google TV by way of using its GameString Adrenalin "personal cloud gaming" service. The catch is that the game doesn't play directly on the device-- it's streamed in from the consumer's PC to the TV's built-in Google Chrome browser.
"Our GameString technology represents the next generation in cloud gaming as it doesn't rely on downloads, plugins, java or obscure codecs to work," said Chris Boothroyd, CEO of Aftercad. "The proof is in the fact it works with the Google TV right out of the box while other cloud gaming services will have to write an app to run it on."
The company claims that GameString Adrenalin is different than other cloud gaming efforts by leveraging the full potential of Flash and HTML5 on the PC or mobile device. This supposedly improves game performance and offers publishers more options when designing and deploying online games.
"Our unique Gaming-as-a-Service (GaaS) and Dual Rendering technologies let the cloud do all the crunchy processing stuff while your web browser handles the game UI," reads the GameString FAQ. "This also means that you'll be able to make wicked game mashups just like other web 2.0 media and have friends join in from any web browser anywhere."
To demonstrate the platform's capabilities, the staff chose their favorite MMORPG as the first public demo seen in the video below. Interested PC gamers can sign up for the upcoming beta here.
You think that's bad? i have a Thompson Modem and that bloody thing restarts for no reason at any time.
Once you play WoW with around 40 ms, you can NEVER go back. Everything will feel slower, delayed and just choppy.
It's like going from Katy Perry to Amy Winehouse...you'll notice a pretty big damn difference.
You're doing something wrong, or you have "dirty" power at your home. I have a dlink 4100 gaming router (same as 4500 but w/o wireless) and I powered it on in 2008. Have not rebooted it even once since then. It's been up for more than 2 years straight. I do heavy Bittorrent, WoW, and all kinds of stuff and never had a single issue. Before the Dlink 4100, I had a WRT54G. Same thing there, its uptime was measured in *years* and I never once had to reboot it.
there are 5 pl in this house who heavily tax the routers. this router is known for lockups and random reboots... as for the wrt.. i have the older ver 3 which also is known for issues. (and is quite old)
the main box where my movies are stored is too far fro hdmi cable to reach the cable comes in on opposite side of the house and had to run ethernet alongside coax to the other side to get to my pc.. wireless and gaming just didn't mix..
I can say the same for my WRT54G, been going 6+ years strong without any trouble. My internet connection had been dropping, but I found out that the coax line for the ethernet wasn't recieving enough power. Fixed the issue and now everything is working perfectly.