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By: Is That Steam In The Cloud? | Counter Strike Today

Is That Steam In The Cloud? | Counter Strike Today — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:22:40 +0000

[...] Random Feed wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptValve Software, the company behind popular games like Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, and Portal, just made an interesting move by announcing the upcoming roll-out of Steam Cloud. In essence, it is a free extension that will allow any user of the wildly popular digital content platform to store game saves, mouse and keyboard configuration settings server-side, enabling gamers to access their data across multiple PCs. So what will it actually do? The Steam Cloud will “ [...]

By: Is That Steam In The Cloud? | Counter Strike Today

Is That Steam In The Cloud? | Counter Strike Today — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:22:39 +0000

By: Maisa

Maisa — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:02:09 +0000

I think is actually ironic that users accept this as such great improvement and the same ones have such a hard time understanding the benefits of being in the cloud in general!
Great post!
By showing something simple that makes a difference maybe people will have a better awareness of what’s Cloud Computing really about, in many ways.

Ps: I left a link about your post on my personal blog. Let me know it you’d like me have it removed and I’ll make sure to do it! Tks.

By: Stinky

Stinky — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:15:22 +0000

The “Google buying Valve” story was an outright fabrication by The Inquirer’s Charlie Demerjian; anyone else who reported the story was the echo chamber at work.

By: surelooksgood

surelooksgood — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:02:35 +0000

maybe you can make it your job…

By: Valve rozszerza funkcjonalności systemu Steam - vBeta.pl - blog o internecie, baza wiedzy o nowych programach, Web 2.0

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:08:45 +0000

[...] darmowa i obejmować ma wszystkie gry z katalogu Steam, także te wydanie dużo wcześniej. Jak podaje TechCrunch, Steam Cloud ma być dostępny jeszcze w tym tygodniu oraz z pełną wersją gry “Left 4 [...]

By: insic

insic — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:34:26 +0000

i think im gonna love this game. left4dead sounds cool.

By: There’s Steam in that there Cloud - WinExtra

There’s Steam in that there Cloud - WinExtra — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:23:45 +0000

[...] Is That Steam In The Cloud? [...]

By: Steam Cloud: Store your game saves, and mouse & keyboard configuration settings | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:01:00 +0000

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By: Letting Off a Steam Cloud from the Valve | Viraload

Letting Off a Steam Cloud from the Valve | Viraload — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:01:17 +0000

[...] TechCrunch Is That Steam in the Cloud [...]

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:09:12 +0000

Great news!!! Now I can install Steam from anywhere and play my stuff from anywhere (even at work oops).

By: Steam Cloudはゲーム業界に広がっていくだろうか

Steam Cloudはゲーム業界に広がっていくだろうか — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:08:04 +0000

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By: Pawel Pachniewski

Pawel Pachniewski — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:03:37 +0000

This is a great move by Valve! In fact, I didn’t know about the announcement, but have recently contemplated exactly such a thing. Deleting a game on Steam (its “local content”) left me wondering: “What about my savegames?”…extending into: “Why can’t I have those online as well? Automatically when I re-download a game I played I download my personalized data and savegames. Great stuff.

By the way, GOG (http://www.gog.com/ ) is a new digital distribution platform which focuses on a niche: those great old school games. I think these companies are great. In some cases I like to own the box and booklet of a game, but the recent years have made me reluctant to buy them boxed. We got high-speed internet, everything is within reach.. I hope more and more games will become digitally distributed. I won’t mention that “pirated games” are “distributed” this way as well.. so this addresses a kind of familiarity with gamers… some are used to downloading games…

By: Gebadia Smith

Gebadia Smith — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:00:00 +0000

One more, what is the deal with that force.com or whatever sales force is. Would it be better to use that or use amazon’s EC2 for hosting a Facebook app? Anyone know of a good blog which talks about hosting Facebook apps?

By: Gebadia Smith

Gebadia Smith — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:58:10 +0000

Thanks you all rock…

By: Trevor Lee

Trevor Lee — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:50:22 +0000

That’s one advantage, but in this case the advantage is that your data live in the cloud – meaning that you personal settings, etc. can follow you from PC to PC.

By: Olivier Refalo

Olivier Refalo — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:48:37 +0000

There is a lot of buzz around Clouds and the term CloudComputing (CC).
Put in simple terms, CC is the next evolution of hosting and hence deals with anything where a service is provided remotely: hardware (virtual), software (Saas), Storage..etc.

The MAIN difference between a cloud and the legacy is:

1. Multi tenant – many users share the same platform
2. Elasticity – the platform scales dynamically on demand
3. Dynamic configuration through web ui – Admins can go home
4. Based on Web standards – Web, WebServices..etc
5. Business model: per usage basis
6. Cost – fully public

Anything that doesn’t follow these simple axioms is not a cloud.

Cheers,

By: Steam Brings the Cloud to Gaming with Steam Cloud | Global Geek News Blog

Steam Brings the Cloud to Gaming with Steam Cloud | Global Geek News Blog — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:46:51 +0000

[...] to TechCrunch, way back in May, Valve promised that PC gaming was moving to the cloud with Steam Cloud. Steam [...]

By: Gebadia Smith

Gebadia Smith — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:22:51 +0000

I keep hearing about cloud this or cloud that. Dumb question but is the advantage of a cloud just that you can essentially make it autoscale? How is it better than a traditional server? If you were building an app for example would Amazon’s E2 cloud be the best service to use to host your app?

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:19:38 +0000

I no longer buy games with SecuROM DRM (in any form) in them. I do however, actively buy games from Steam (except, of course, this with SecuROM).

Valve got things right, and they deserve my money.

EA and Ubisoft blundered, and the only way I would buy games from them anymore, is if I could pay with dog shit instead of dollars.