Gaikai

Remember before when I said that Dave Perry likes to make some big promises and then doesn't deliver anything in the end? Hmm well here's what I just stumbled across on bigdownloads:

The Gaikai streaming PC game service announced a couple of new people that will join the company's executive team. One is Robert Stevenson who is the company's new Senior Vice President of Interactive Entertainment. Stevenson has worked for many years in the game business including stints at Namco Bandai and Atari. The other new executive is Tim Wilson who has been named as Gaikai's Executive VP of Strategic Relationships. Wilson worked for 16 years at Electronic Arts including the Chief Technology Officer at EA' Redwood Shores studio.

Meanwhile we are still waiting for Gaikai to launch. You may remember that its CEO Dave Perry told our sister site Engadget that he was targeting a December 15, 2010 launch but that date has come and gone. He told us about a month ago that Gaikai decided to take the "difficult route by supporting every browser / operating system configuration (including Linux) in all countries."

There ya go Dave. I think someone has been reading Jim Collins. Getting the "right people on the bus" is not going to get your product released, assuming it exists at all.

Bloodline Champions

Bloodline champions, the latest free to play competitor to DOTA was just released. Looks interesting, I might check it out.