The Menlo Park-based company, formerly iSwifter announced version 2.0 of its cloud gaming platform to offer more content types and utilization on the client beyond iPads. With release of capacity today that they describe as "a game, anywhere, instantly" has a new name, the acronym Agawi.
Tablets Android, Windows 8, smart TVs, Mac and PC tablets will be able games stream via the service of clouds (as shown here). While the first company offering the Flash browser web application iSwifter available in the iTunes store, is widely used by social and casual players, the new platform is designed for publishers of games titles after and hardcore. With the announcement of Agawi expands its B2B offer in the hope of wooing the creators of games AAA Prime Minister (which means that it cannot be long before the games traditionally seen on the shelves of GameStop is available for players playing without consoles).
The company has developed two products with 500 K $ in funding, far less than the $56. 5 MM this competitor OnLive raised and used to pay for data centers before the closure and sold recently. As opposed to companies that offer storage solutions, Agawi hope that publishers will pay licence fees to use their technology and reach new audiences through any service provider third-party cloud.
Co-Founder President and Director Peter Relan says that clouds of game will change the interactions of games in the same way that continuously changed the viewing of the film, enhance the experience to go into a video store to rent a DVD. "The cloud gives you the ability to provide the necessary capability for users who want to have their content when and where they want," said sogame. He says that the offerings will help publishers meet players who are currently underserved and that prefer to Tablet PC.
With 30 people, Agawi has increased its team of engineers and is triple the size it was when it launched the first version of the platform. The company was incubated by YouWeb, who helped launch the mobile gaming network OpenFeint and social enterprise games CrowdStar. She received angel funding from Dave Roux, co-founder of Silver Lake, which helped to sell Skype for Microsoft.
Agawi said that it is not highlighting oriented towards the consumer offer with this version. The company stresses that research more interest publishers and developers to extend its global user base of 3 million players. Will he announce new partners for the update of the platform version at the Conference Cloud Gaming USA in San Francisco in early September.
iSWiFTER is first cloud-Flash game industry of streaming service built specifically for mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets, extending on mobile platforms such as Apple iOS and Android. Servers of low cost in the cloud to run software abstraction that cleverly converts the Flash games based on a browser in a form that is optimized for mobile devices, complete with gesture multi-touch support for game interaction and accommodating different screen sizes. A client application connects to game servers in the cloud to download...
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