TC50’s plaYce Launches Real-World, 3D Game Platform as a Service (500 Invites)
plaYce which showcased at last year's Techcrunch50 is today announcing the beta launch of its Game-Platform-as-a-Service, aimed at assisting game developers bring high-quality 3D game play right into the browser. Games in plaYce are based on 3D renderings of real cities such as San Francisco and New York.
500 private beta invites for both users and developers are available exclusively to TechCrunch readers here.
Casual games on the Web are quite bland when compared to "Tripple-A Games"—high budget titles typically produced by game studios such as EA. The type of games developed and/or distributed by the likes of Zynga, SGN, Kongregate or Oberon just don't cut it for "real" gamers which are used to superior high-quality game play and graphics.
plaYce tackles this matter by allowing high-quality games to be streamed into the browser. The company claims it delivers quick-engagement by initiating play within a minute for games ranging from 300MB up to a few gigabytes in size.
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