Gaikai

Via Bigdownloads:

Some of you may remember that our sister site Engadget did a hands-on preview of the upcoming Gaikai streaming PC game service a few weeks ago. It's CEO Dave Perry told them he was aiming to finally launch the service to the public on December 15 with the caveat that he wasn't making any promises on keeping to that date. It's a good thing he added that bit in because December 15 came and went without Gaikai's official launch.

Big Download emailed Perry himself to get an update on when Gaikai will be available to the masses. While he dodged our question on whether or not Gaikai would launch before the end of 2010 he did give us this general update:

Open Beta is going well. We took the difficult route by supporting every browser / operating system configuration (including Linux) in all countries. That said, progress has been good, no show-stoppers. We will continue this process for the time being as it's giving us time to set up the rest of the global network. (12 Countries live so far.)

I'll believe it when I see it. Dave Perry has a habit of not delivering, though I would welcome any competition to onlive.

Dungeons release date

Via bigdownloads:

Publisher Kalypso Media has a number of upcoming games due out in the first quarter of 2011 and today the company revealed specific release dates for two of them. One is Dungeons, the Dungeon Keeper-like strategy-RPG game from developer Realmforge. That game is due out on February 10. The other is The First Templar, the co-op themed action-adventure game from developer Haemimont Games. That game is scheduled for release on March 30.

In addition both games will be getting exclusive content if you purchase them via the Steam PC game service. There's no word yet on what specific content will be available on Steam.