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  Intel Invests $500K In 'Gaming On Demand' Dev TransGaming
by Chris Remo
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September 24, 2009
 
Intel Invests $500K In 'Gaming On Demand' Dev TransGaming
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Intel has invested $500,000 in TransGaming, a Canada-based company focused on bringing PC games to other platforms like Mac, Linux, and -- eventually -- television sets as an "on-demand" service.

It's the last of those that the chip maker is primarily funding, according to a VentureBeat report. TransGaming is developing GameTree.tv, which will allow players to instantly load up a wide variety of games to play using their television sets.

But unlike services with similar goals, like the cloud-computing based OnLive and Gakai, GameTree.tv does game rendering client-side, using Intel's own "system on a chip" architecture. Intel separately announced today that those compact, graphics-oriented chips would be integrated into forthcoming HDTV sets.

Intel invested in TransGaming through Intel Capital, its venture capital-driven investment subsidiary.
 
   
 
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Matt Haigh
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That is a very smart idea, making the games render on there systems rather than the users. This would allow anyone to play the game who has fast enough internet, processor to, of course process all of the images and memory to store it..... If that is what they are doing :P (I may have miss-read what they meant)

Doug Poston
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@ Matt: Except that's exactly what they're not doing.

"[unlike] OnLive and Gakai, GameTree.tv does game rendering client-side"

It makes sense for Intel to support this. They'd rather sell a million consumer chips for $50 then a thousand professional chips for $500.

Mike Smith
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This is great news! Very exciting stuff.

Mike Smith
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Seems like it would essentially be a game console with download only.... this is an interesting turn for PC games.


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