Ken McKown Writes: If you would have asked me twelve months ago what I thought about cloud-based gaming, I would have laughed and said that it could never happen. Here I am, less than a year later, ready to eat crow. After spending some quality time with OnLive, I am truly a believer in the technology this company has managed to create. While not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, it definitely ranks up there with some of the most impressive advances so far this generation. If other companies can adapt what is here, I can easily see this becoming the future of gaming as we know it.
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."
When the whole world is connected to the internet by using Fiber Optic Cables, then maybe. Just maybe.