Articles
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December 2012
“#1 App OnLive Desktop (iPad/Android Tablets)”
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November 2012
Games Without Gizmos
Erik Sofge“…there’s just one site that you need to know about: OnLive.com. It’s dangerously engrossing, with more than 200 titles to choose from, many of which you can try for free.”
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October 2012
OnLive UK General Manager Bruce Grove took the time to speak to us at Eurogamer Expo 12
Scott Marley, Scott Watson“Bruce Grove goes on record with the Daily Record one year on from OnLive’s launch in the UK.”
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October 2012
Interview With OnLive General Manager and Acting CEO
Peter Chapman“Recorded interview with Charlie Jablonski and Bruce Grove speaking from the 2012 Eurogamer Expo in September.”
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October 2012
“OnLive named as finalist in four separate categories at this year’s T3 Technology Awards, including ‘Innovation of the Year’”
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August 2012
Big-Budget Consoles Beware, the Ouya Is Coming in Strong
Cassandra Khaw“Aside from rampant support from the public, Ouya currently boasts of a partnership with music video and platform Vevo and cloud gaming platform OnLive.”
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August 2012
Meet the man in Microsoft’s rear-view
John Patrick Pullen“We’re not just the next generation of consoles. You can distribute movies through us. You can distribute the entire user interface around the movie, not just the movie itself….”
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July 2012
10 Coolest Virtualization Startups Of 2012 (So Far)
Kevin McLaughlin“We’ve been overwhelmed with requests from enterprise, SMB, organizations, government, schools–all seeking to replace their current remoting technology with OnLive as quickly as possible.” —OnLive Spokesperson
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July 2012
OnLive, Marvell seeding cloud gaming on Google TVs
Stefanie Fogel“Now [OnLive] will use Marvell’s ARMADA 1500 chipset to bring its service to Google TV without the need for a gaming console.”
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July 2012
Vizio Co-Star Google TV now up for pre-order
George Wong“The Vizio Co-Star is also touted to be the first stream player in the market to offer video games with OnLive.”
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July 2012
Pre-Order Vizio’s Co-Star Stream Player With OnLive Now
Kevin Parrish“Through OnLive, users can demo, watch and play hundreds of top-tier video games directly from the cloud, eliminating the need for an independent game console.”
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July 2012
The $99 Vizio Co-Star Google TV Box Is Now Available To Pre-Order
Matt Burns“[The Vizio Co-Star] sports the typical apps such as Netflix and Amazon, but also OnLive, which is the Co-Star’s prime attraction.”
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July 2012
OUYA Teams Up With OnLive For Cloud-Based Gaming
Allegra Tepper“OnLive takes [OUYA] to the next level. This means that whether or not developers take to the platform from the get-go, OnLive will offer gamers a bevy of content immediately at the launch.”
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July 2012
Ouya Reveals Controller, Support For OnLive
Ryan Rigney“The addition of OnLive will allow gamers to purchase and play graphically intense games like Batman: Arkham City and L.A. Noire.”
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July 2012
OUYA Scores Hundreds of Games Through OnLive
Sarah Leboeuf“With OnLive available at Ouya’s launch, that means there will be hundreds of games already available to play on demand.”
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July 2012
OnLive Games Coming to Ouya Android Console
Chloe Albanesius“We are pleased to announce that OnLive will be available on Ouya at launch, extending and building on our commitment to make the best games available to everyone, everywhere.” —Bruce Grove, OnLive
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July 2012
Ouya game console adds OnLive, outs controller
Rich Brown“By bringing in OnLive, Ouya can boast AAA-quality titles like Warner Bros’ Batman: Arkham City, THQ’s upcoming DarkSiders II, and UbiSoft’s Assassin’s Creed games.”
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July 2012
OnLive launches cloud gaming service in Belgium
Dean Takahashi“Belgacom customers will get access to a month of bundled games for free on OnLive’s Belgian site. The OnLive PlayPack will be available with more than 200 games playable on just about any PC or Mac.”
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July 2012
OnLive jumping to Ouya video game console
Brett Molina“Like Ouya, we came to gaming with a new vision for making top-quality gaming accessible to more people, and we continue to look for ways to expand on that vision.” —Bruce Grove, OnLive
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June 2012
Vizio unveils $99 Google TV-powered CO-Star set-top box
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes“Vizio has expanded into a new market with a Google-TV-powered set-top box that also gives owners access to the OnLive streaming games service.”
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June 2012
Vizio Rolls Out $100 Google-OnLive Set-Top Box
Trent Nouveau“The Co-Star is the first media streaming device to offer support for OnLive, which can be used to stream PC and console video games over the ‘net.”
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June 2012
Vizio Introduces Google TV Streamer with OnLive
Kevin Parrish“Vizio has taken a different route with the Co-Star Stream Player by allowing … viewers to watch live TV along with the web, apps, OnLive cloud gaming, and other streaming entertainment….”
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June 2012
Vizio Co-Star Player Marries Google TV, OnLive Cloud Gaming
Joshua Goldman“As an added bonus for both casual and regular gamers, support for OnLive’s cloud gaming service is available, too.”
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June 2012
OnLive Announces ‘OnLive MultiView’ – A New Era in Social Gaming at E3
Jason Wiffin“[MultiView] will allow [gamers] not only to chat with their teammate during games, but actually see exactly what they are seeing at any given moment as well.”
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June 2012
Industry Analysis Spotlights Cross-Platform Trends
OnLive and Razer Showcase Cloud Gaming Innovations“Cloud and cross-platform gaming serves unique needs. They’ll continue to impact hardware as well as software, and the business model implications for the entire global gaming industry are profound.” —Lewis Ward, IDC
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June 2012
OnLive Announces Easy In-browser Gameplay, MultiView, LG Deal
Matthew DeCarlo“The updated in-browser support makes it easier for partners such as publishers and retailers to integrate OnLive’s service on their sites….”
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June 2012
OnLive Gets its Cloud Gaming Service on LG TVs and Broadens its Service
Dean Takahashi“With the in-browser cloud gaming, OnLive will enable publishers and retailers the ability to offer hundreds of games with a single click for purchasing.”
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June 2012
E3 2012: OnLive Offering One-Click Cloud Gaming, Live Spectating, and More
Darren C“OnLive has millions of subscribers worldwide, with international spectating, multiplayer and voice chat, and … has had 100% uptime 24/7 since launch.”
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June 2012
Cloud Gaming Company OnLive Adds LG Smart TVs And In-Browser Gameplay For Publishers
Richard Lawler“[OnLive In-Browser Gaming] enables [OnLive] partners to create their own online gaming service, without users having to log in to OnLive to access those games.”
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June 2012
OnLive’s MultiView Spectating Entices Multiplayer and Co-op Gamers
Omri Petitte“The real win for OnLive here is MultiView’s latent advantages for competitive and cooperative gaming.”
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June 2012
OnLive Integrates with LG Smart TVs, Expands Cloud Services
Jeffrey Wilson“OnLive introduced its OnLive MultiView feature that lets users watch three other players’ game sessions while continuing to play their game.”
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June 2012
OnLive Adds In-Browser Gaming
Dave Neal“OnLive announced various things at E3, including the ability to test games within your web browser.”
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June 2012
OnLive MultiView on an LG Google TV, eyes-on (video)
Brian Heater“MultiView lets you watch content while playing, the majority of the screen devoted to your own game, with this added footage in a sidebar.”
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May 2012
OnLive’s All-You-Can-Eat PlayPack Now Available for $9.99 per Month
Ross Miller“It’s not inaccurate to think of this as early-day Netflix Instant Watch….”
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May 2012
Borderlands Now Available in OnLive’s PlayPack
David Stonecipher“Where OnLive really shines though is in its PlayPack. For $10 a month, an OnLive PlayPack subscriber gets access to over 50 games to play as much as they want.”
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April 2012
OnLive Celebrates 200th PlayPack Game with Special $2 / £2 Offer
Jamie Keene“Game streaming service OnLive’s PlayPack bundle now offers 200 games to monthly subscribers, a number which includes titles such as Saints Row 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, and Homefront, as well as classic Sega Genesis games like Comix Zone.”
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March 2012
OnLive’s Touch Version of ‘L.A. Noire’ Goes Live
Mark Hachman“For OnLive, adding L.A. Noire is also a bit of a coup, as it gives the platform a top-tier title that began life on a console.”
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March 2012
Touch-enabled L.A. Noire now available for OnLive Android app
Rick Henderson“BAFTA Video Games Award winner L.A. Noire is now available as a fully touch-enabled experience on OnLive, so that it can be played through the company’s Android tablet application.”
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March 2012
Rockstar unveils Touch Edition of ‘L.A. Noire’
Brett Molina“The Touch Edition of the game, which will be available only through OnLive, is free to players who purchased a copy through the streaming game service.”
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February 2012
OnLive Brings Flash, Office, Speedy Connection to iPad for $5 a Month
Ian Paul“With the addition of IE, you now have what amounts to a fully functioning desktop on the iPad, at least for short trips when you just can’t take a laptop.”
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February 2012
OnLive Desktop Plus with Flash for iPad now in US, UK soon
Rick Henderson“OnLive Desktop Plus offers much more, with priority access, and super-fast broadband, which you can use to browse or even download attachments from Webmail accounts.”
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February 2012
OnLive offers service to speed up Web browsing on an iPad
Troy Wolverton“The new application could be revolutionary because it gives users of mobile devices access to applications and experiences they previously could get only through a full-blown PC.” —Michael Gartenberg, Gartner
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February 2012
OnLive brings Internet Explorer to iPad
Chris Smith“Regardless of how fast or slow, your home Wi-Fi connection is, OnLive Desktop Plus’ cloud-accelerated connection will dramatically enhance page-loading and streaming speeds.”
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February 2012
OnLive Adds “Cloud-Accelerated Browsing” To Its Streaming-Desktop Stable
Devin Coldewey“It can load files and display them to you in the video stream faster than you can load them on your own device.”
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February 2012
OnLive Desktop Plus Brings Blazing IE Browser, Flash to iPad for $5 Per Month
Davey Alba“OnLive has managed to make an already-impressive app even better with this latest iteration.”
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February 2012
OnLive delivers ridiculously fast web browsing on the iPad
Dean Takahashi“A 50-megabyte file from cloud storage can be downloaded in less than a second. I watched that happen today and witnessed Flash games running on the iPad.”
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February 2012
OnLive Adds Cloud Browser to Virtual Windows Desktop
Mark Hachman“Access to the OnLive backbone means that consumers should be able to browse the Web in a literal snap.”
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February 2012
OnLive Desktop Plus impressions: A Windows 7 desktop on your iPad, now with a browser
Jeffrey Van Camp“Downloading attachments from email or the Web is also an alarmingly fast experience. A 50 megabyte file downloaded in about a second or two.”
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February 2012
OnLive Desktop Pro for iPad launched: Adds IE support
James Kendrick“I have been testing the new OnLive Desktop service for a couple of weeks, and what makes the Internet Explorer access so compelling is the sheer speed of it.”
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February 2012
OnLive Desktop Plus Hands On: They Put Windows on My iPad
Mat Honan“For $4.99 a month it basically lets you run full Windows on your iPad, and at blazing speeds to boot. This is the cloud done right.”
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February 2012
Ex-Apple Man Streams Flash Onto the iPad
Caleb Garling“First, OnLive put Windows on the iPad. And now the free-thinking San Francisco startup has gone so far as to put Adobe Flash on Apple’s holy tablet.”
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February 2012
Personal Tech: OnLive brings Windows, Flash to iPad
Edward Baig“It is hard not to walk away impressed.” —Edward Baig
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February 2012
OnLive Desktop launches ‘Plus’ subscriptions, puts IE in your iPad
Sean Buckley“The cloud powered browser’s full Windows experience finally gives the iPad full Flash compatibility, giving you the chance to feed your nostalgic need to watch cartoons check their email.”
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February 2012
First Look: Hands-On with OnLive Desktop Plus
J.R. Bookwalter“We visited one of the most Flash-intensive websites we know of and were able to play games, watch videos, and browse around with the kind of speed that rivals using a desktop browser, all on our iPad 2.”
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February 2012
For $5 a Month, the Speediest Net Connection
David Pogue“This is jaw-dropping, extremely polished technology. It opens up a universe of software and horsepower that live far beyond the iPad’s wildest dreams — with no more effort on your part than a few taps on glass.”
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February 2012
OnLive brings Windows desktops in cloud to Android
Kevin Tofel“This might lead Android tablet users to consider ditching their laptops altogether now that they can take along a virtual Windows 7 desktop wherever they go.”
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February 2012
OnLive Desktop Now Available for Android Tablets
Adrian Covert“Because Android supports mouse input, it brings a dimension to OnLive Desktop the iPad lacked, but still supports all the same multitouch gestures as before.”
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February 2012
OnLive Desktop hits the Android tablet
James Kendrick“I was duly impressed with the iPad app and the service, and my testing of the Android app show it to be just as good.”
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February 2012
OnLive Desktop Brings Office and Windows 7 to Android
Melanie Pinola“This might lead Android tablet users to consider ditching their laptops altogether now that they can take along a virtual Windows 7 desktop wherever they go.”
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February 2012
OnLive Streams Microsoft Windows Onto Android Tablets Too
Cade Metz“On Thursday, OnLive unveiled an Android incarnation of its eponymous OnLive Desktop—a mobile app that lets users access a virtual Windows desktop housed on servers in the cloud.”