World of Warcraft running on an iPad

William Leary on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 6:00PM

David Perry, founder of Shiny Entertainment, has managed to get World of Warcraft up and running on Apple’s iPad using cloud-based browser-binded streaming service, Gaikai.

Gaikai stores a game’s entire contents on a remote computer that then streams the game, in this case World of Warcraft, to a specialized web browser capable of receiving streamed games. That means if Gaikai gets approved for the App Store, which it doesn’t look likely, you would be able to play whichever games they stream without any software installed. This will allow much larger games to be played on the iPad and not take up any storage space on your iPad at all.

It is highly unlikely that Apple will allow a program of this sort to be released on the App Store for obvious reasons, the biggest being that the Apple would only make money off the sale of the Gaikai application, not from the software they will offer. But I wouldn’t take this to mean that we will never get software like this on the iPhone and iPad, it’s just not going to come from any other developer other than Apple themselves.

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Tags: app store, apple, Blizzard, gaikai, ipad, MMO, multiplayer, Online, shiny entertainment, streaming, World of Warcraft, wow

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05/06/10 1:22 am

I will not doubt the Ipad will be amazing, but what’s up with all this madness?

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05/04/10 8:21 pm

Wow.. Epicness on an ipad. Looks cool. I want to buy one

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