Anyway, on Sunday afternoon we decided to stop coming up with excuses not to launch Gaikai to the public and silently sent out a blast of 1,000 invites around the world. Suddenly we were officially "Open Beta", people were playing within minutes and leaving nice messages in our survey system.
We sent out another 10,000 invites and players are currently hitting 15 of our 24 data centers.
No issues have been reported that we can't fix this month, and so we will continue to send out invite blasts in waves of 10,000 until all issues are fixed.
The game everyone is playing first is Mass Effect 2, it's the highest rated PC game in the last 12 months and Bioware simply rocks. They've been very supportive as has Electronic Arts. The good news for them is we are getting a surprising amount of people clicking "BUY" without even making them a special offer.
Our team has been growing nicely and we have been making some strategic hires that you will hear about in the next few weeks.
The Second Life team (from Linden Lab) has also been working away on a special build that they wanted to stream with no friction. They sent out a tweet and people started hitting the servers, it worked well. They posted to Facebook and now are inviting directly with emails (I just got one.) So that traffic is keeping our servers busy too.
Anyway, if you'd like to try Gaikai, just register at the bottom of the page on http://www.gaikai.com.
It's fun to see people posting videos, here's one of Mass Effect 2 streamed to Linux.
Here's someone trying Second Life without having to install it.