Oh Dear! or ZOMGWTFBBQ! Depending on your view of World of Warcraft. I used to be quite addicted to WoW when it first came out but financial and Real Life put pay to my addiction in recent years. Although I am VERY tempted to re activate my account with the impending release of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (I had access to the Beta but not enough time to actually see what it was like)!
If you are a WoW addict and have an Android device your social life and work productivity could be in some serious danger with this news.
A company called Gamestring are working on a piece of software to allow you to use applications installed on your PC remotely via your Android device.
The Application is called Gamestring Adrenaline and along with allowing you to play 3D games streamed straight from your PC but can also broadcast live game play from your PC to streaming services like Justin.tv.
Obviously one of the first things they tried was WoW but theoretically almost any game can be played this way.
Working alpha demonstration of World of Warcraft playing on HTC Desire Android mobile phone, made possible by the GameString Platform's remote play technology. You can stream your games from the cloud to any desktop, notebook, tablet or mobile device. With our Dual-Mode Delivery technology, each device can have its own custom user interfaces while playing the same core game from the host computer.
Hardware/environment setup for this shoot (in video):
* GameString Adrenalin Host Server with Dual-Mode Delivery running a standard WoW game install
* Client Device: HTC Desire
* Server network: Home Internet Service Provider at 2 Mbps up
* Client network: Home Internet Service Provider at 2 Mbps down, WiFi IEEE 802.11g
* Server-to-client network: 2 Peer hops, 5 node hops, Geographical separation - 80km
It looks pretty impressive even in Alpha! It'll work even better on newer Android phones and those great Tegra 2 chips coming soon.
I'm glad to see it running on the Desire as that is the same phone as I have. =]
I will definitely be keeping an eye on this, not so much to play WoW on but to see what else it can do really. I do have an Aion and City of Heroes account to try with it. The games that this really interests me in playing are games like the original Fallout games and Planescape. These would be great to play on my daily commute to work.
I have signed up for the Beta so shall let you know my findings as soon as it becomes available.
What games would you most like to be able to play on the move?
Here is the official site of the program:
Gamestring
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