Otoy brings Crysis to your smartphone

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I must confess I don’t really know what’s going on here (and who knows, it may be a hoax) but Otoy is promising to bring their server-side rendering technology (like Skyfire) to your local mobile browser (in this case on the Samsung Omnia).

Apparently the game streams over WIFI or 3G, runs in the browser, and the part that rings my alarm bells, requires no client-side installs. OTOY Chief Strategy Officer Mark Tseng says that the company is working on a variety of control schemes, allowing users to control games using a phone’s accelerometer, onscreen gamepad, or external peripherals like the Xbox controller.

 

Read more about the technology at Techcrunch here.

Thanks itsy for the tip.

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