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G-cluster is a Japanese startup with plans to bring cloud gaming to mobile devices

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Love it or hate it, cloud gaming is going to be around for a long time. A few years ago, everyone was skeptical about whether it was even feasible to play a console-like game on an average computer using nothing but an internet connection. With services such as OnLive and Gaikai, we know gaming in more »

CES 2012: Hands-on with the GAEMS G155

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On Tuesday evening, I swung by CES Showstoppers to check out some of the gaming-related products. The first booth I walked up to contained the GAEMS G155. You wouldn’t be able to tell what the product is based on the name, but it made up for that with performance. Basically, the G155 is a portable more »

Analysis: Mobile gaming won’t kill the handheld console market

In one of their most recent print editions, Game Informer posed a rather interesting question. The question was whether or not mobile gaming (via smartphones, tablets, e-readers, etc.) will kill the handheld (DS and PSP) market.

One issue that pops up is the scope of the market. For gaming-dedicated systems (handhelds or not), games and subscriptions (like Xbox Live) are the revenue streams. There is still a lot of money to be made gaming-dedicated handheld and console markets, especially with the growing use of digital distribution.

Nolan Bushnell regrets selling Atari

Atari founder Nolan Bushnell had quite a few things to say at the [a]list summit last week. Bushnell recently rejoined the board at Atari after leaving the company for decades years to pursue other endeavors. Now that Bushnell is back in the game, he wants to prove to gamers and industry types alike that he is still relevant in the business. Despite being absent from Atari during the evolution of videogames, Bushnell shared his thoughts on current trends such as augmented reality and mobile gaming.

GDC 2008: Nokia sheds light on upcoming N-Gage service

Nokia’s new N-Gage service has been marred by several delays and, in December 2007, the company formally pushed the launch of the service to the first half of 2008. Now with a pre-launch version, N-Gage First Access, being made available to N81 users through the official N-Gage website, the full version can’t be far off. And just before the launch of the service, the ongoing Game Developers Conference proved to be a great platform for the cellphone maker to shed more light on N-Gage’s new avatar as a standard gaming service for Nokia cellphone which will allow users to download and…