In The News
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….”
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.”
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
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.”
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.”
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
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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
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.”
OnLive Adds In-Browser Gaming
Dave Neal“OnLive announced various things at E3, including the ability to test games within your web browser.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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….”
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
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.”
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.”
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….”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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….”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
January 2012
Working in Word, Excel, PowerPoint on an iPad
Walt Mossberg“These are the real programs. They look and work just like they do on a real Windows PC. They let you create or edit genuine Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations.”
Hands-on with OnLive Desktop: A Windows 7 Cloud Desktop on Your iPad
Davey Alba“There hasn’t been anything like it before.”
OnLive Desktop: Full MS Office on iPad 2, no Windows required (review)
James Kendrick“I have used other solutions on the iPad to access Windows systems, but this is hands-down the easiest.” —James Kendrick
Giving Windows on an iPad a Boost
Nick Wingfield“Users will be able to create and edit documents in those applications on their iPads and store them online, using the two gigabytes of free storage OnLive will provide people.”
Why OnLive’s Windows-on-iPad App is Revolutionary
Farhad Manjoo“Think of OnLive as a bridge between the PC world and the post-PC era.”
CES 2012: OnLive Desktop for iPad Brings Full Windows Experience
J.R. Bookwalter“Multi-touch gestures respond instantly and smoothly, while HD videos, animations and PC video games—never before usable on a remote desktop – play seamlessly.”
OnLive can turn your iPad into a remote desktop with live-streamed MS Office apps and more
Dean Takahashi“The cloud service is potentially disruptive to a number of different parties in the documents ecosystem.”
OnLive Brings New Form of Windows to the Cloud
Don Clark“The technology makes use of touch features in Windows 7 that are not widely used, Perlman says. For example, an iPad user can use gestures to pinch and pull apps like Excel in ways that most people can’t on their laptop or desktop PCs.”
OnLive Desktop gives iPad owners the gift of Windows
Ricard Bilton“With OnLive’s new desktop app, Windows, the iPad, and the cloud all work together as one.”
Now OnLive Is Putting Windows in the Cloud
Harry McCracken“OnLive also plans to bring Desktop to Android tablets, smartphones, PCs, Macs and its own MicroConsole … it would give you a Windows environment you could get to from nearly every computing device you own.”
CES 2012: OnLive brings Windows 7 to Apple iPad
Mike Snider“Video game streaming service OnLive is showing that it’s not just about fun and games.”
OnLive Desktop Brings Windows Applications to the iPad
Andy Chalk“The new OnLive Desktop will bring full-featured, remotely hosted Windows applications like Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint to the Apple iPad.”
OnLive moves beyond games with Windows 7 iPad app
Tom Curtis“With the new Onlive Desktop app, users will be able to stream to their iPad a handful of Windows 7 applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as a handful of utilities and touch-control games.”
OnLive Desktop brings full Windows apps to iPad
Rue Liu“Instant-response multi-touch gestures combined with a full on-screen Windows keyboard and handwriting recognition will make it easy to view and edit even complex documents directly on the iPad.”
OnLive brings cloud gaming to Google TV
George Wong“As if working on living room consoles, tablets and computers wasn’t enough – the company has now announced that OnLive will soon be available on Google TV.”
OnLive Viewer Hits Google TV, Full Gaming Capability Potentially On The Way
Matt Burns“Google TV needs content. Onlive has content. The match is perfect.”
OnLive gaming app comes to Google TV devices
David Katzmaier“Finally, a unique and worthwhile “app” comes to Google TV.”
OAll Google TV Devices Just Got OnLive Game Streaming
Jason Chen“Good news for Google TV fans who want games: OnLive, the game streaming company, is going to be on all Google TV devices starting now.”
