The guys who make the Phantom 2.0 OnLive Micro console have released some lovely new shots of their imaginary console and its controller. If you’ll recall OnLive is the mini PC in a box that’s supposed to stream games over an ADSL connection in real time, and at HD quality with no noticeable input lag. It all sounds like a …
Okay first up, OnLive won’t work. It just can’t cater for the nuances of network latency across the globe and the bandwidth costs related to this would make it incredibly unaffordable in all countries except the US.. But I guess the American market is big enough to be their only market and with that in mind they have announced the …
OnLive, The Warner Bros-funded PC-centric cloud-computing attempt to dethrone consoles exploded on to the scene at this year’s GDC in March. It’s been fairly quiet on the OnLive front since then – They were conspicuously absent from this year’s E3, choosing to rather demo their product at a residence in downtown LA. Last Updated: August 12, 2009
When I read this article I shuddered. Was my precious console now finally facing the firing squad? According to Palo Alto-based OnLive, it was. Unluckily for our console counterparts OnLive isn’t merely all talk either. Apparently it’s been dropping jaws of the press who’ve seen it working this week at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. GameDaily dubbed …
I haven’t been paying much attention to this OnLive service that was announced at GDC to be honest, quite simply because it has absolutely no way of working for us anytime soon. Without even going into the technical details of the system which to be honest, sound like absolute BS to me, there are some fundamental issues that will never …
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