Imagine a gaming service with no downloads and no waiting around for that latest demo or latest release. Imagine the ability to immediately watch what your friends are playing and interacting with them while they do so. There is no need to use your imagination any more as this technology is real and somehow just like Frankenstein; it’s alive! Actually, should that be OnLive!
OnLive is a video-game streaming service that launched on the 22nd September 2011 in the United Kingdom. The service launched on the opening day of the Eurogamer Expo and stole the show. Lucky members were able to leave with the micro-console, whilst others left with a registration card twiddling their thumbs waiting for their new console to arrive via post over the next few days.
Dean Takahashi of VentureBeat writes: "OnLive has teamed up with British game retailer Green Man Gaming to resell subscriptions for OnLive’s cloud-gaming subscription service. The deal is the first of its kind in which a game retailer resells OnLive’s online bundles of games delivered via web-connected data centers, or the cloud."
With all the recent subscription services increasing in popularity including EA Access and PS Plus, The Game Fanatics decided to take another look at OnLive and how it could be the dark horse in the video game streaming race.
I still have onlive and compared to psn now it seems faster response time, and the ui is tons better. Imho.
Samit Sarkar of Polygon writes: "War Thunder, the free-to-play military MMO from Russian studio Gaijin Entertainment, is launching today on CloudLift, the cloud-based gaming service from OnLive, the latter company announced today.
CloudLift, which OnLive debuted this past March in open beta, is a subscription-based service that allows players to "lift" a limited selection of Steam titles they already own to the cloud, and then stream them to a variety of devices without needing to download the full game. Those devices include Mac- and Windows-based computers, as well as TVs and Android tablets. Because CloudLift is integrated with Steam, save games are synced across devices."
