May 24
Supposing you’re a fan of SIM City – and have never heard of Tropico – today you’re in for a rather strange treat. The folks at OnLive have brought on … Continue reading
Apr 11
A new collection of games have arrived this week with the OnLive service CloudLift. This system allows you to play a number of games that you’ve already purchased from OnLive … Continue reading
Mar 17
Amazon’s Set Top Box Will Be A Dongle Like Chromecast, Could Feature OnLive-Style Streaming
Posted in: Today's ChiliAmazon is readying a game console/set top box of its own, and we’ve learned from multiple sources familiar with the device that the Lab126-produced gadget will have a form factor similar to the Chromecast, or in other words it’ll be a stick or dongle as opposed to something like the Apple TV. In addition, one source claims it should have support for streaming full PC game titles, and… Read More
Mar 14
At the beginning of this month, the game streaming crew at OnLive brought about a sort of rebirth for themselves, launching a service called CloudLift to allow top-tier games to … Continue reading
Mar 06
When we first heard that we’d be able to play many of our favorite games generally relegated to Windows through the cloud to a variety of platforms, including smartphones, tablets, … Continue reading
Mar 05
In the past, OnLive offered gamers the ability to play high-powered games over the internet in a web browser and through their high-powered mobile app. This week they’ve announced a … Continue reading
Mar 05
OnLive Brings On New Executive Chairman And Launches New Cloud Gaming Features
Posted in: Today's ChiliOnLive is still trying to bring gaming to the cloud despite a rocky last couple of years. Today, the company announced significant new services and the appointment of a new Executive Chairman. Meet Mark Jung, the new Executive Chairman of OnLive. He is the co-founder and former CEO of IGN where he took the company public in 2000, then private in 2003 and eventually lead its sale to News Corp. in… Read More
Feb 05
OnLive’s Bruce Grove on next-gen gaming, MMOs: ‘We can take the leadership here’
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To say the last 12 months have been a bit of a bumpy ride for game streaming service OnLive would be a bit of an understatement. However, over that time, the games continued to stream uninterrupted, and the firm seems intent on not standing still. In a recent interview, GM Bruce Grove espoused his optimism for the technology beyond general hardware vendor collaborations. The key, Grove believes, being cloud-gaming’s very design, which he hopes could always offer more power than current consoles thanks to the “rafts and rafts” of CPUs at the game developer’s disposal — without the wait for new hardware iterations. More importantly, Grove’s confident in OnLive’s continued stability as a company — even after nearly self-destructing. “We now have a feeling that here we are as a company, we have a huge amount of experience with this business model, we can point to the things we have seen don’t work … we have a positive feeling that we can take the leadership here,” he said.
It wasn’t just processing prowess and company stability he was keen to talk-up; cross-platform MMOs got a mention too. Grove essentially claims that OnLive’s “cracked” the problem of delivering the multiplayer format to mobile — and other non-traditional platforms — but implies that there are still some tangles when it comes to making the model work for his firm’s particular set-up. The flexibility of cloud-based gaming has always been the central pin of its proponents’ arguments, but with the boast that his firm could take the lead in this area, Grove is hinting at the direction OnLive is focusing on. We’d also point out that MMOs aren’t typically the most stable of sectors in the game industry — outside of Blizzard juggernaut World of Warcraft, few are competitive if at all successful — and playing one through OnLive would mean paying both for an OnLive subscription and a game subscription. Grove hopes to get around that issue with an OnLive -exclusive MMO; something he’s “fairly certain” will happen, but we’re less sure about. Still, we’ve yet to hear much in the way of concrete details regarding OnLive’s plans since the company imploded last summer, so we’ll have to wait and see what the company’s cooking up for 2013. Head through the source to Red Bull UK‘s full interview for even more.
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Jan 07
Are you way into cloud gaming and own an LG Smart TV of the G3 series variety? You’re in luck, as OnLive this morning announced support for that very line of Google TV-powered LG televisions, bringing a library of “over 300 titles” to the platform. The G2 series already got that support back in November, if you recall, but it appears that OnLive’s reach is expanding across a variety of LG Smart televisions. Should you wish to get in on the action, you’ll need a Universal OnLive Wireless controller to actually play any of the games available. We’ll be giving it a look later on this week during CES 2013 to see what’s different — if anything — from OnLive’s presence on other platforms.
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Dec 25
Building on the success of its Smart TVs with Google TV, LG is expanding its 2013 Google TV lineup to seven models in five screen sizes for 2013 – including premium models featuring LG’s popular CINEMA SCREEN design, the company announced today.
The extended LG Google TV lineup, which will be officially introduced at next month’s 2013 International CES® in Las Vegas, encompasses two model series (GA7900 and GA6400) designed to deliver an outstandingly intuitive user experience, …
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