Uncharted, Motorstorm and Halo On Your PC

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Published 15/09/2009 at 22:19.
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Lunchtimes may never be the same again if Spawn Labs have their way. Tiresome flash-based games will be banished in favour of Uncharted 2 running at 720P on your desktop PC. Sounds good doesn’t it? Must be one of those far-fetched streaming technologies that are going to be in Beta for the whole of 2010 and that most people will never see in person? Wrong. This is going live to the public in November 2009. That’s live, to everyone (at least in the US), in a couple of months.

Spawn HD-720 is a nifty box of hardware that connects to your PS3, Xbox or PC and spurts (that is a technical term) the audio and visual data out to the internet and on to wherever you may be logged in. Connect a game pad to the remote PC and you’re ready to play. The quality of the service depends on your broadband speed with Spawn Labs recommending at least 2mbps to get Drake running about in full 720P, or around 5mbps if you are going to be watching a Blu-ray movie.

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Pricing is $199.95 for the Spawn box itself and then you will need an extra $29.95 for a game pad adaptor but this is a one off price, there are no subscription fees. You may have gathered from the pricing this product is American in origin and sadly they can only ship to U.S. addresses at the moment.

What is interesting is this, “Your friends can simply download and install the Spawn Player software free of charge, and play with you on your console using a normal broadband Internet connection.” In other words, multiplayer games such as Burn Zombie Burn will work. There is nothing stopping you sending your lovely wife / girlfriend / partner/ dog / grandmother (delete where applicable) the Spawn player software so after you have finished your gaming, they can then log on and watch some Peter Andre videos via Vidzone.

Spawn HD-720 launches in November and I will keeping a close eye on what the first users think of it and report back. It sounds like the ideal solution – remote gaming akin to OnLive with the added convenience of having a games console stashed under the TV in case your internet connection fails (again). One final note: Spawn will stream from Xbox 360, Xbox, Playstation 3, Playstation 2 and even the Gamecube, however to run Spawn player you will need a Windows PC. No Mac support yet.

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cc_star | 15/09/2009 22:22
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Kind of like Slingbox for games consoles?

Sounds remarkably like GaiKai but rather than using a remote server to stream a ‘live flash movie’ of what your playing it uses your games console to ‘host’ the game and its own internal stuff to convert that in to the ‘live flash movie’ for broadcast to you over the Internet.

Except this has that extra step and an extra opportunity for lag than GaiKai does
- mynameisblair | 15/09/2009 22:36
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  Wait, wheres the edit button?
  
  Oh, fancy community manager privaleges, eh :P
SIR-DARK-HAZE | 15/09/2009 22:22
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- mynameisblair | 15/09/2009 22:25
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  Failure!!
  
  This is beautiful… brings a tear to my eye.
  
  I must congratulate you cc.
  
  Also: Don’t do that ever again, we don’t like your types round here.
- CaptainMurdo | 15/09/2009 22:26
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  Please, no. Please.
- Bilbo_bobbins | 16/09/2009 10:48
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  Sir Dark, you a moron. You type is frowned upon here. Grow some.
- kevatron400 | 16/09/2009 13:06
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  Yeah, I really like the way your statement really points out the pros and cons of the hardware.
mynameisblair | 15/09/2009 22:24
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Wow, be good when you are away from home!
PsyWood | 15/09/2009 22:24
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Hmm a usable version of remote play – this could be interesting! I hope they get distribution for ROW.
- kill_zide | 16/09/2009 11:19
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  wtf do you mean remote play works fine for me
CaptainMurdo | 15/09/2009 22:26
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Really good idea and the non-local, local multiplayer sounds pretty cool. It’ll be good to see how this shapes up.
Doddsy | 15/09/2009 22:34
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A hardcore session at school methinks ;D
Floms | 15/09/2009 22:39
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I will stick with my PS3 i dont like to play in my PC anyway. I wont trade my console for my PC
TonyLeMesmer | 15/09/2009 23:07
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This sounds good in theory, but I don’t think I’d ever be able to use it. My upload speed just isn’t good enougha
bunimomike | 16/09/2009 01:03
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Won’t this feel laggy unless you have the most brutally quick connection?
Reedus | 16/09/2009 02:08
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if this works, this could be a healthy alternative to onlive.
- cc_star | 16/09/2009 14:22
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  In a way yes, but this costs a couple of hundred dollars and you can still have to buy everything you play as it only plays the game you’ve got on your system, whereas with OnLive you could play any game on their service.
  
  Also this is when you’re away from home, so would tyou really have the ability and time to play PS3 games when you’re away from home.
  
  I’d like a service where I can play any game whilst I’m at home