Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Cloud Based Gaming (But GOOD!) with OnLive

Cnet is running a piece today on a new service called "OnLive".
This service (which is due to be officially announced later today at GDC) will do away with traditional consoles and high-end gamer PC's.
Essentially OnLive "Streams" the games to either PC, MAC or TV (via a nifty little plugin device they have).

Seemingly it will allow you to run High end games on ANY PC or MAC. What will make the difference it your broadband connection.

"Broadband connections of 1.5Mbps dials the image quality down to Wii levels while 4-5Mbps pipes are required for HD resolution."

This sounds like an incredibly interesting service and could potentially overhaul the gaming sector if it actually works. It would also get rid of the PC / MAC gaming divide!

Check out the full story HERE and we'll be sure to have more info as soon as it breaks later today!

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