OnLive Service announced
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
OnLive was recently announced at the Games Developer Conference this year. PA made a comic here and both PA and CAD commented on the service (here and here), but I found this review from CNET (here) to be the most informative on wtf exactly OnLive is:
The system is designed to allow players to stream on-demand games at the highest quality onto any Intel-based Mac or PC running XP or Vista, regardless of how powerful the computer.
An intended benefit of this infrastructure, Perlman and McGarvey explained, is that users will be able to play streamed games via OnLive with no lag, so long as their Internet connections meet minimum thresholds. For standard-definition play, that would mean a minimum 1.5 Mbps connection, and for high-def, 5 Mbps.
If what they are boasting is true, this is a huge change in the video gaming industry…Basically, your shitty computer can have awesome graphics streamed to it provided you have a good internet connection…
In other news, the latest PA D&D podcast is up (episode 6). This series is really awesome, I am thoroughly enjoying both listening to their actual D&D game as well as the jokes they share during the podcast.