Bulletstorm is a recent FPS action title that requires quick thinking and quicker reflexes. That’s why it’s so impressive to see the high-powered game running in a browser window. Gaikai, a start-up game company, has figured out an effective way to stream games like Bulletstorm through Chrome. The trick is something called Native client technology, which transforms Chrome into a gaming environment. VentureBeat has the story.
Every day, web browsers are beefing up their powers, while video games come around from the opposite direction, looking for common environments and hardware platforms. The evolution of gaming seems to be headed online, for better or worse. On one side, that means owning games is probably going to be a rare thing. On the other, it means having to actually buy and install games might become a relic of a bygone age. The future is weird.