StreamMyGame now available, play PC games on your PS3
- Posted January 14th, 2008 at 11:43 EDT by
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With consoles becoming more and more powerful, it seems logical that console owners should be able to share in the PC gaming experience by being able to play PC games on their systems. This long hoped for feature has now become a reality for PS3 owners following the release of StreamMyGame.com.
The software provided by this website is one that will convert the audio and video portions of the PC game and convert it into a "Game Stream." Once converted, the information will be sent over the user's home network to a second computer, PS3, or Linux-based device, to then be able to view as well as play the game with the StreamMyGame player.
StreamMyGame acts as a media server and is available to just about anybody with a PC running Windows XP or Vista, and will be compatible with all PC titles based on Microsoft's DirectX8, DirectX9 and DirectX10 (including the highly acclaimed Crysis). The resolutions are also scalable all the way up to "Super HDTV" (3200 x 2400).
"Playing the latest PC game on the PS3 is now a reality at HD resolution and fast frame-rates," commented CEO Richard Faria.
"I have a PS3 in my living room and PC in my office and my two kids both have old PCs in their bedrooms. Now we can play games anywhere around the home. StreamMyGame's technology networks the power of a main PC so it can be used to play high end games on other PCs, PS3s and Linux devices."
Later this spring, StreamMyGame will be allowing users to play their games over broadband networks that are "sufficiently capable" that would allow their PC games to be available to them over "Remote Play." This feature adds yet another notch on the PS3’s exclusive features, which other systems just aren't capable of producing.
Source: StreammyGame
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lintama
- 12:03pm GMT - January 14th, 2008
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Here is a link to the web site http://streammygame.com
To get good specs from the PC, it has to be maxed out. But, if you happen to have an incredible PC rig, then this will be awesome for you, and your friends! It would be awesome if you could host a LAN party, and your frinds could just come over and play whatever. I'd love to play Gears of War on my PS3, I've been wanting to check that out.
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Jeremy54556
- 1:04pm GMT - January 14th, 2008
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Most new PC games require more horsepower than PS3 has, and future games will require even more while PS3 stays the same. It is unclear from the blurb (when did PSU start copy-paste press releases?) how exactly this works, but I'm sure the end result is inferior to the original product in either frame rate or graphics quality.
In any case, I don't see the point of this. If I have a PC which can play a game, why would I want to play it on my PS3? I specifically bought a PS3 so I wouldn't have to upgrade every two years to play the latest games.
Sounds like snake oil to me.
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bigbossakajack |
BiggestBoss- 1:10pm GMT - January 14th, 2008
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that's so cool, to bad my pc sucks, and I can't get my pc to recognise any unknown devices (my ps3). so unless you can do the game in your ps3 it won't help me.
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DARKBLADE1 |
DARKBLADE2- 1:28pm GMT - January 14th, 2008
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would you have to have linux installed on your ps3 to make this work?
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gingo |
gingo- 1:29pm GMT - January 14th, 2008
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psn id: gingo.... this is actually really impressive i'll see if i can get Doom 3 working because i've always wanted to try that with a controller but wasn't buying an xbox just to do that
or am i completely off and you still have to use keyboard and mouse??
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Stef Nighthawk
- 1:32pm GMT - January 14th, 2008
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Euhm, I hate to be the cynical one but streaming introduces lag (especially over a wireless link). Which means that the player's input could be received too late. ie. (LCD-)TV lag with games like Guitar Hero, but worse.
Just try and play a fast-paced PSOne game over Remote Play and you'll notice the problem with streaming lag.
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Bedsidelee
- 3:23pm GMT - January 14th, 2008
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RIP Sony PS3, the ps3 during the holiday season 2007 was the lowest selling console (simexchange).
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xdavidplaguex |
omegaweapon1987- 3:28pm GMT - January 14th, 2008
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the stupid thing is you cant actually physically play the game with you ps3 like with the controller it just means you can steam the image to your ps3 and view it on a big t.v so to speak in hd
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Staticneuron |
Staticneuron- 3:32pm GMT - January 14th, 2008
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I guess this means that the performance will be dependant of the power of your PC. Good idea. If this also includes the usb mouse and keyboard support then we have a winner.
@daz
Don't bother, if you feed it, it will never go away. let them feel content in thinking that the rest of the world doesn't exist.
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shaggy_online
- 3:33pm GMT - January 14th, 2008
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it's great newssssssssss.......... i can't believe it it's...... incredible
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Naucious23 |
Naucious- 3:38pm GMT - January 14th, 2008
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if this is true then this could eliminate exclusives for MS I wonder would they allow this but I too dont see the point of buying a game on the PC just to play it on your PS3, why not just play it on your PC? n e ways good try in all but unless theres a way you can fully download the game to your PS3 HDD im not interested.
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yoboyrob9041226 |
BIGROB904- 3:47pm GMT - January 14th, 2008
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the ps3 is king nobody can deny that now the amount of games on the system just opened up dramatically now all sony got to do is let the people around the world know about this and it will be the end of the war as we know it
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keefy |
keefy- 5:26pm GMT - January 14th, 2008
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It is just another frapsIt alows you to stream video to any computer in the network say for watching people play like at LAN competition.
You can play your fave PC game in bed without having to move your pc etc.
It is very buggy atm i cant get it to work properly for reasons someone mentioned, LAG . Even if i set it to the lowest compression and lowest resolution i still cannot login on my ps through the frefox web browser, it just ends up timing out, soon as i disconnect the server its ok.
Want to know how it works?
Click the link in the article :)
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MatrixSixaxis
- 7:24pm GMT - January 14th, 2008
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I have seen a video on Youtube with a guy explaining how to set this up and then he played Crysis on his PS3!
Firstly you need to install LINUX on your PS3 and he was also using a wireless keyboard and mouse to play the game. So, in the future we could possibly play games exclusive to Microsoft before X360 even gets them!!! And now we could play Bioshock and Mass Effect on our PS3! Wonder if they'll implement online gaming as well in the near future?? So much more possibilities now.
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Bingepurge_99
- 7:41pm GMT - January 14th, 2008
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wicked news. all you xbots on this site, go cry to ur buddy bill. and also tell him that he should pull out of the console war, and just join sony and their affiliates and produce PS3 and PSP games. he'd prolly make way more money that way.
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Bedsidelee
- 9:12pm GMT - January 14th, 2008
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Daz m8 i'm sorry to say it hasn't sold more than xbox36, go to n4gamers.com and simexchange.com the ps3 is the lowest selling console of the holiday season 2007, so don't call people names and go check for yourself, in october it sold well only in parts of europe but it didn't sell very well in europes biggest market country the uk which seen the ds and wii on top followed by the the xbox360 psp followed by the ps3, and in north america it's done terrible, you GUYS SHOULD LOOK AROUND AT OTHER SITES NOT GET BRAIN WASHED ON PSU, The ps3 is doing poor and is getting so much like the psp, people are buying it has a media player including me i watch blu-ray movies and download divx movies, and play games mostly my xbox360 and wii, i will play games on my ps3 but right now theres nothing really good out there, it's a good console but a good console is no good without good games.
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