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OnLive announces beta test for server gaming over Wi-Fi connections
Venture Beat &bull Sep 2, 2010
OnLive is announcing today that it has begun a beta test to let gamers use its games-on-demand service over wireless networking connections. As a technical achievement, that's pretty cool. OnLive runs its games in the cloud, using beefy servers with… Full Story »
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PlayStation 4 Will Have Still Physical Media Capabilities
Daily Tech Internet &bull Aug 26, 2010
With the digital movie and rental markets starting to transition to streaming rentals and digital downloads for purchases, many expect the same thing to happen with the video game market. The problem with streaming video game services such as OnLive is that lag and the quality of the internet connection can make the games unplayable. Sony's PSP Go so far has been a failure. This was… Full Story »
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OnLive cuts a mafia deal that gamers won't be able to refuse
Venture Beat &bull Aug 24, 2010
OnLive scored a coup today by getting same-day access to Mafia II, a high-profile video game that goes on sale tonight at midnight. Take-Two Interactive's 2K Games will allow OnLive to make Mafia II available to its subscribers as a… Full Story »
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Game retailer GameStop misses earnings target despite huge used game sales
Venture Beat &bull Aug 19, 2010
GameStop, the world's biggest video game retailer, missed its earnings target by a penny a share today, but its performance wasn't as weak as the overall video game business because the chain is growing its market share and it is selling more and more used games. The company's stock price is down 7.85 percent to $19.13 a share, largely because of a disappointing forecast for the second… Full Story »
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Instant Jam for Facebook: A Guitar Hero clone social online game
D'Technology Weblog &bull Aug 17, 2010
InstantAction is an online gaming innovator that brings console-quality games to the Web that lets you play full PC games via a Java applet, a bit like OnLive. The company has released "Instant Jam" game that looks like FarmVille and… Full Story »
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Unable to beat Netflix, Blockbuster swats at GameFly
Cnet Business Tech &bull Aug 10, 2010
I have been doing Gamefly for over 3 years now. Honestly the biggest problem with the service is how big it is. Trying to rent a new release is more luck then anything. They also did raise the price a… Full Story »
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Full D8 Demo Video: OnLive
All Things Digital Boom Town &bull Aug 9, 2010
But the idea is much bigger than cloud gaming, since OnLive is essentially the most interesting example of how almost anything can be deployed in this manner. We've launched a new commenting tool, Disqus. For the full story on all… Full Story »
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Online game service OnLive's latest filing points to $1.1 billion valuation
Venture Beat &bull Aug 4, 2010
Online game company OnLive's latest valuation is an estimated $1.1 billion, after taking investments from new investors BT and the Belgacom Group this spring, according to a regulatory filing. The valuation confirms that OnLive is one of the hot properties in the burgeoning game business. In June, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company launched its online game service that delivers high-end games… Full Story »
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MonkeyBrains: Silly Name, Serious Broadband
TechWeb &bull Aug 3, 2010
A three-man ISP in San Francisco's Mission District is providing Internet broadband that's two to three times faster than the U.S. average for less than $40 per month. The lunch crowd at Coffee Bar, a stylish cafe in San Francisco's… Full Story »
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Cloud-Based Gamer Gaikai Adds Intel and Limelight As Backers
Paid Content Yahoo &bull Jul 23, 2010
Gaikai, a much-buzzed about startup that promises to let users play PC-based games in their web browsers, has added two big names to its list of backers. The company says that both Intel (NSDQ: INTC) venture arm Intel Capital and… Full Story »
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PC game download game sales nearing parity with retail sales
Venture Beat &bull Jul 21, 2010
PC games downloaded via the web are almost at parity with the number of games sold at retail stores, according to market researcher NPD Group. In 2009, 21.3 million PC games were downloaded to computers in the U.S. via online… Full Story »
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Game-streaming firm Gaikai raises funding from Intel Capital and Limelight Networks
Venture Beat &bull Jul 20, 2010
Game-streaming firm Gaikai has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Intel Capital and Limelight Networks. Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based Gaikai will use the money to build its ability to stream games to large numbers of users from the cloud, or… Full Story »
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Intel Capital Invests In Cloud-Based Game Streaming Service Gaikai
TechCrunch &bull Jul 20, 2010
Cloud-based game streaming service Gaikai has taken an investment from Intel Capital and Limelight Networks. While it's unclear how much Intel invested, the firm could have been one of the un-named partners in Gaikai's $10 million funding round in May.… Full Story »
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Wolverton: OnLive streams console-quality games over the Internet
Silicon Valley &bull Jul 19, 2010Streaming technology already has had a big impact on the way consumers watch videos, listen to music and play casual games. Now it could revolutionize the core video game business. OnLive, a startup company based in Palo Alto, last month launched its highly anticipated online game service. The service, which is free for the first year and $5 a month if you sign up for a second, streams console-quality games to users over the Internet much like YouTube… Full Story »
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Week in gaming: OnLive, StarCraft 2 skill, Singularity
Ars Technica blog post &bull Jul 10, 2010
This week our biggest story was, by far, a video of some very impressive Korean StarCraft players. The story was something fun we found and wanted to share, but the readership exploded, and a very good discussion on the merits of that sort of skill began in the comments. We also reviewed Singularity,… Full Story »
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OnLive tested: playable, but 10-frame delay at best
Ars Technica &bull Jul 8, 2010
Now that OnLive-the ambitious cloud-based gaming service-has been available to the public for a while, we're starting to get an idea of just how well the service performs in the wild. And, unsurprisingly, there's lag, though it varies quite a… Full Story »
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OnLive: Video Games on Demand Service Demoed [VIDEO]
Mashable &bull Jun 25, 2010
Video gaming meets cloud computing in the new OnLive service, which lets you instantly fire up and play a library of popular titles on your PC or Mac - and soon, your TV. The service delivers high-end games to even low-powered machines as well as giving Mac users a… Full Story »
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Using OnLive is the easy path to instant gratification gaming
Venture Beat &bull Jun 22, 2010
The age of instant digital game distribution got under way last week as OnLive launched its games on demand service, which allows you to instantly play high-end games over an internet connection even if you have relatively lame computer hardware. More than eight years in the making, the online gaming service has gone live with a limited number of inaugural customers. For the skeptics who thought it would never get off the ground - I have to say that they were wrong. I've tried it out and managed to do just about everything I wanted to do instantaneously. It worked… Full Story »
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Wolverton: Highlights of E3
Silicon Valley &bull Jun 21, 2010Rich Sommer jumps virtual hurdles as he plays Kinect on Xbox 360 at the Xbox booth during the E3 conference in Los Angeles, June 15, 2010. LOS ANGELES - At E3, the annual video game conference here that goes by the formal title of the Electronic Entertainment Exposition, the latest, greatest games usually take center stage. But what I found exciting this year was all the innovation that's taking place on the hardware that the games are played on and in… Full Story »
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OnLive gaming service now available for Mac (Chris Holt/Macworld)
Techmeme &bull Jun 18, 2010
The New MobileMe Mail. Now Available to All Members - The all-new MobileMe Mail at me.com is now out of beta and available to all members. We'd like to thank the many people who used the beta and provided us with feedback. Droid 2: First Impressions - Gizmodo reader Zack recently had a chance to play with Verizon's next offering, the Motorola Droid 2. He sent us his impressions, some details about the specs, and a few extra pictures. Apple has never advertised or even published the processor speed or amount of RAM found in the iPhone. Discussion:Engadget, Gadget Lab,… Full Story »
