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OnLive Release Date & Price Announced
March 11, 2010
Remember the online gaming service we covered a few months ago called OnLive that moves your gaming to the cloud? Well it just got real. In case you missed it, OnLive aims to deliver over the air gaming to users in a similar way to general cloud computing.
Data and games are stored on OnLive servers and the images are beamed to gamers around the world who compete in an online environment. The Beta went up quite a while ago and it seems the waiting is almost at an end for US gamers, as the official OnLive launch date has been announced as 17th June 2010.
For $15 a month users will be able to access the OnLive community, however games themselves will cost that little bit extra which is a given considering developers are still going to want their money’s worth out of their games. However this does raise some concerns with potential gamers.
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November 16, 2009
A few weeks ago you may have read my article on ‘OnLive’ moving gaming into ‘the cloud’. The global gaming network played via the internet eliminating the need for exceptional hardware spec to play the latest modern games. If you didn’t then I recommend reading that before this revolutionary announcement.
Today, founder and CEO of the company Steve Perlman, announced and demonstrated the OnLive service, not only on a regular PC but on the iPhone too. This extends the service from the current TV or PC/Mac platforms to gaming on the go too, not only on the iPhone but also on a number of regular mobile phones which have yet to be announced.
Continue reading »OnLive – Video Gaming Moving Forward Into The Cloud?
October 8, 2009
At the game developers conference this year, we learned about a revolutionarly video gaming service called OnLive which could provide games on demand. Created by Steve Perlman, mainly recognised as being the creator of Quicktime, comes a service backed my gaming giants such as Electronic Arts, THQ, Eidos, Ubisoft and Codemasters.
In essence, OnLive is an online game streaming service. The hardware itself is still in Beta testing and consists of a pretty small box unit and wireless controller.
They say that to play the highest quality games, users will require download speeds of around 5mbps or more, which is fairly reasonable as by the time the product is released, that will be a very modest connection indeed for any serious gamers.
Continue reading »Nintendo Wii Price Cut Coming To The UK
September 28, 2009
What’s that? The Nintendo Wii is finally getting a price cut? Well sat here in Europe we suffer a little in the UK when it comes to international releases: more often than not we are the last of the major technology players to get the latest stuff – behind the US, Japan and occasionally small tribes in Outer Mongolia.
This rule also applies to price cuts and yet again we find that Nintendo have seen to the US before us, however I doubt many people will be complaining because at least it has actually managed to jump the Atlantic. Yes, this is the news that the Nintendo Wii price cut is coming to the UK!
Continue reading »OnLive Games on Demand! – Digital Game Distribution System
March 25, 2009
Over the last seven years this little project has been sitting in Silicon Valley undetected and undisturbed working away at something that hopes to revolutionise the way in which we play video games and change the hardware that we have in our homes, and at the Gaming Developers Conference we finally got a good look at what it is.
The basic idea behind OnLive is that you will be able to essentially get on demand video games through the ‘cloud’ and onto your Mac, PC or even TV. By instantly streaming compressed video you will be able to play it ‘almost instantaneously’ giving the same experience that you would have if you were playing it locally – truly digital game distribution!
But the real genius behind this is that it relies on the video compression and broadband streaming (along with the cloud), and not on the actual hardware on the computer which will mean that even low end machines will be able to benefit from high quality gaming.
Continue reading »‘Affordable’ Video Games Console Launches In Brazil
March 25, 2009
A couple of things in that title are likely to have raised a few eyebrows: firstly the term ‘affordable console’, something we don’t often associate with names like Microsoft and Sony so it must be something new. Secondly the fact that it’s launched in Brazil; when was the last time that a new console was launched in Brazil first?
Well this is a very different type on console, and something that we haven’t really seen before. It’s called the Zeebo and it has been made by Brazilian manufacturer Tectoy and it aims to bring seventh generation gaming into the developing emerging countries (notably Brazil, Russia, India and China [or BRIC] ).
Continue reading »Sega Megadrive Console Re-Released
March 17, 2009
It’s true! The Sega Megadrive is to be re-released!
The same company who brought us the Portable Megadrive are the ones behind this amazing news. The new Megadrive will come with 15 games already pre-loaded onto the console with 2 pads.
To be honest, I’ve not heard of a few of these games and there’s no room for the original Sonic it seems, or other classics like Earthworm Jim (it’s a classic to me).
Continue reading »Xbox 360 Now Less Than £100
December 17, 2008
With the growing economic gloom and redundancies galore we are well overdue some good news and our good friends at Zavvi have helped us into a happier Christmas by dropping the price of the Xbox 360 to below the £100 mark. Admittedly it is just by one penny (the price tag now reads £99.99) but it is still a £30 drop on the previous £129 price, which itself was a substantial drop on the original release price.
There are many things that you could read from this, and many conclusions to be drawn, so lets start as high up the hierarchy as we can, with Microsoft. This price drop is similar to those that you often see at this time of year as manufacturers make a desperate attempt to ship as many failing products as they can; but the cheap Xbox 360 is most definitely not failing and over the Christmas period has probably out sold its nearest rival the PS3.
Continue reading »Cheap Nintendo Wii?
April 27, 2008
A cheap Nintendo Wii bargain console is something that is now starting to interest many people what with the soaring popularity of the Nintendo Wii’s unique controls, even with people who don’t fit the traditional gamer stereotype.
Cheap Xbox 360?
April 10, 2008
What do you think to a cheap Xbox 360 bargain? I say bargain because you can now pick up a cheap Xbox 360 for less than the cost of a Nintendo Wii.
Admittedly this is for the cheapest Xbox 360 Arcade model of the console which doesn’t come with a hard disk drive, but does use the wireless Xbox 360 controllers. So this means that Microsoft have now priced an Xbox 360 model as the cheapest console out there.
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