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[E3 2011] OnLive Pushes Cloud Gaming Innovation Further

OnLive invited us to their E3 booth to show us its newest advances in cloud gaming. In the past, many gamers were very skeptical about the service.  How could a cloud-based gaming service come with no lag? When using OnLive, the data needs to go from the OnLive wireless controller, to the micro-console, to your

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[E3 2011] OnLive

This morning, Nelson and I had the pleasure of meeting with OnLive regarding some of the amazing advances they’ve made. If you’ve somehow missed all our posts proclaiming the giant boner we have for OnLive, and subsequently don’t actually know what an OnLive is, it can be described as Netflix for video games. In essence,

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OnLive offering Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood pre-order bonus and sweepstakes

Customers who pre-order Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood for OnLive are eligible for free upgrades to the Deluxe Edition, along with a chance to win an OnLive Game System and a 47-inch television. Two lucky Grand Prize winners will win a frankly luxurious 47-inch VIZIO XVT Full 3D HDTV, with Full Array TrueLED backlighting and VIZIO internet

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OnLive Adds Square Enix Titles to its Library

Onlive has just announced that several Square Enix titles will soon be added to its list of PlayPack games. The games to be added are titles from franchises Deux Ex, Hitman, Mini Ninjas, Thief, and Tomb Raider. The new games will be added to Onlive’s PlayPack subscription services, in which subscribers can play any games

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OnLive’s $9.99/Month PlayPack Plan Launches

Today OnLive launched PlayPack, its flat-rate, pay-per-month video game plan. The plan offers 38 video games and costs $9.99 per month, with the first month offered free as a trial. Steve Perlman, founder and CEO of OnLive, and John Spinale, the VP of Games and Media, both cite enormous consumer demand for all-you-can-play plans as

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Andrew Plein

OnLive Micro Console Bandwidth Test

There has been a lot of talk recently about OnLive. Especially after the announcement about their $9.99 a month Unlimited Game service. Now OnLive has more the one flavor. I’ve already had a chance to do a Video Bandwidth test on PC / Mac. Though I was really itching to try out the console version.

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OnLive Introduces New Flat Rate Monthly Plan

Today, OnLive has announced a very competitive membership plan for $9.99 a month.  With the new flat rate plan, you can play any game that OnLive offers at anytime for as long as you want. “Top-tier titles are available as individual rentals and purchases, while everything else is available at a flat rate. With these

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