OnLive has officially announced that their service will be available on the OUYA console at launch next year. If you’re not familiar with either products, you can check out our coverage on both the OUYA and OnLive. OnLive on the OUYA console should be a wonderful pairing as it allows future users a broad library of games to enjoy. Are you a current backer of the OUYA project?
It’s no secret online gaming service OnLive isn’t doing too well, but it’s affecting other companies as well. HTC (which isn’t doing so well financially itself) has recently announced it will have to book a $40 million loss from its investment in OnLive because of a “lack of operating cash and an inability to raise new capital“.
Yesterday, it was reported that the popular cloud-based gaming hub OnLive had allegedly laid off a majority of its staff and planned to file for bankruptcy. OnLive remained quiet for several hours after the initial rumor became widespread.
OnLive, everyone’s favorite cloud-based game-streaming service, is holding some killer specials right now. How about Batman: Arkham City, Duke Nukem: Forever, or F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, all for half off? Or maybe Orcs Must Die or Divinity II The Dragon Knight Saga for a whopping 75% discount?
Unfortunately, the newer, more current games, such as L.A.
Another step in the OnLive saga comes to us from the Mercury News where reporter Troy Wolverton writes that investor Gary Lauder paid $4.8 million for the company assets and that OnLive was $18 million in debt after raising $40 million from AT&T and others.
OnLive, the cloud gaming platform where games are rendered and stored on servers, already has Windows and Mac OS X clients, but a Linux client is in the works. Back in March there was a job posting by OnLive where one of the responsibilities dealt with feature design and development...
When a company goes through a change of ownership, it’s always important for the company to release some sort of a statement regarding the switch. The last thing the company wants is to remain silent, that may give their customers reason to doubt them.
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OnLive, the one and only cloud-based gaming service, has eliminated its monthly fee of $4.95. You can now sign up without supplying your credit card details.
Games still cost money to buy, but the main thing thing is that you now have access to fully-playable 30 minute demos for free. We were finally able to test the service, and it really is rather good.
Cloud-based gaming provider Agawi, which began life as iSwifter for iPad with a much more narrow focus on delivering Flash-based gaming to Apple’s tablet devices, today announced a new collaboration with Microsoft to bring its streaming client to Windows 8 devices.
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