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David Perry is one of those game developers who doesn’t do anything small — he started out with a company called Shiny Entertainment, responsible for great old games like Earthworm Jim, MDK, Messiah, and the Enter the Matrix movie tie-in game, and nowadays he’s moved on to the MMO market, where he’s developed all kinds of crazy ideas (including, we’re not kidding, a dance MMO). This is the kind of guy who has ideas and chases them down.

His latest idea is a system called Gaikai, a “game streaming service” that allows players to jump right into any PC games they’d like, no installation or hard drive space necessary, online. There are a number of services like this springing up lately, including the much-discussed OnLive, where instead of depending on your local hardware to render and produce the game you’re playing, you just send and recieve information with a remote server. As you can see above, Gaikai is focusing on PC games, and anyone who’s planning on running a PC gaming service has to include World of Warcraft. Starting at about 6:00 into the video above, he shows off a version of WoW that requires no installation or loading at all; just sign in and play.

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