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David Perry
Personal blog · dperry.com/archives/news/dp_bloggamesbusiness
David Perry's personal blog at dperry.com covers games and business. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Gaikai Demo: Stream Desktop Apps/Games to the Browser”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link David Perry's game-industry blog for commentary on cloud gaming (OnLive, Gaikai) and on why developers feel slighted by used game sales.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My Blog covering Technology, Entertainment & Design.
Most-linked posts?
- Gaikai Demo: Stream Desktop Apps/Games to the Browser2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-07-01
What Hacker News says?
Gaikai is a competitor to OnLive. In this demo video from a year ago, ( http://www.dperry.com/archives/news/dp_blog/gaikai_-_video/ ) they demonstrate using Photoshop remotely through Flash.
Comment linking /archives/news/dp_blog/gaikai_-_video/
on “Thoughts on OnLive”Submitted Gaikai Demo: Stream Desktop Apps/Games to the Browser as a story · 19 points
HN discussionI've heard negative reactions from game developers before and think they should pay more for popular used games, so I'm not surprised by this. On the Dawdle blog there is this post which links to a Penny Arcade comic which shows this seems to be an on-going thing. http://blog.dawdle.com/2009/03/why-penny-arcade-is-wrong-abo... I found this post from Dave Perry which I think sums up why the developer feel slighted by…
Comment linking /archives/news/dp_blog/used_game_night/
on “Used Video Games Are Good For The Industry (It's Just GameStop That's Bad)”Submitted Cloud Computing - Streaming Video Games as a story · 10 points
HN discussion