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Almost a decade ago, I setup my first wireless network along with the purchase of my first laptop. Boy, technology was expensive back then. In total, the laptop and network  cost nearly $2,400 in all. Today, a  much faster and secure wireless network and laptop could be had for a fourth of that cost. And [...]

Just a few months earlier, Facebook released their new Like Button which is popping up on most popular websites and forums. Implementing this button with phpBB forums isn’t as simple as grabbing the code generated from Facebook’s configurator. That is, if you want it to work properly with the dynamic pages of your forum. The configurator generates two [...]

I had been using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 for almost a year now because it handles 2 things of which I peruse daily: E-mail. I have nearly a dozen e-mail accounts (and growing) that I need to keep track of and individual logins is a hassle, not to mention a thing of the past Calendar. I like [...]

We are pleased to announce that the website for The Cloud Gamer is now live. All the content has successfully been transferred from OnLive1.com and can be viewed by clicking the links up top. Again, we would like to emphasize that this site is still in beta mode and thus is in the early stages of development. Expect [...]

We’ve all heard about OnLive’s (one of the forerunners of cloud gaming technology) negative impact on console systems like the 360, PS3, and Wii, but perhaps the death of console gaming is inevitable. Nintendo may be in a better position than its competitors since it has had a history of sacrificing raw power and the [...]

At the Wedbush financial conference in New York that took place today, Steve Perlman showed off the OnLive game service on several different platforms: 2 iPhones, a TV, and a computer. “What is really cool is that all 4 devices had access to the full OnLive Game Service, so they could play the same games, spectate [...]

At the London Games Conference, Xbox Live EMEA boss Jerry Johnson told the audience that streaming game services like OnLive isn’t ready for mass-market in the near future. Johnson believes that “streaming technology is something that the industry is betting on longer term… right now I don’t believe that technology can scale out against the [...]

OnLive has closed another round of funding on Tuesday with AT&T Media Holdings, Inc., Lauder Partners, Warner Bros., Autodesk and Maverick Capital. “The funding is much larger than our previous rounds,” says Steve Perlman, the founder of OnLive. He went on to say that the new partners “gives us a serious jolt of rocket fuel [...]

After a bit of a delay, OnLive is opening its beta program to gamers living in the US.

I’m very excited to say that we are now opening the OnLive Beta to outside gamers who signed up on our website. It?s not too late to sign up if you haven’t already. We are very much looking [...]

I’m sure we’re all waiting for news of the beta and the final release date. According to their PR, there will still be a beta released sometime during what’s left of the summer, but the release could be pushed back pending the results of the beta.

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It seems like some other sites/blogs were able to attend the site tests we spoke of earlier . Joystiq has OnLive impressions and photos worth checking out. The game service was tested in a LA apartment running over a regular internet connection, which confirms our reports. The actual servers were located about 350 miles away in Santa [...]

Great news! I heard a rumor that OnLive will be doing site checks at a house in downtown LA during the week of E3. I’m wondering who from the TCG community might be in LA the week of the show. If you are local to LA and could attend the site check please let me [...]

4mm Games is a new company developed by ex-Rockstar founders Jamie King and Gary Foreman. According to GameSpy, 4mm may develop games for OnLive or Gaikai:

The company hopes to “deliver groundbreaking content with global appeal to a consumer who lives online.” This could suggest that 4mm Games may be looking at a cloud-based gaming service [...]

OnLive officially won’t be attending E3 this year. OnLive founder, Steve Perlman, provides the following reason:

…this is the main reason why OnLive won’t have a booth at E3 this year. More than anything, E3 is a retail-oriented conference, both for retail platforms and retail publishers, and OnLive is neither. You’ll hear and see plenty from [...]

Microsoft is rumored to unveil a new handheld device at E3. Called the ‘ZuneX,’ the device may feature Xbox Live Arcade, media player capabilities, and support for OnLive.

Microsoft has neither confirmed nor denied the existence of the ZuneX.

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Ken Brown from Nvidia has some positive things to say about OnLive:

Actually we think this is a good thing for the industry. Given the targeted resolution and image quality, it seems a good potential benefit for the 50% or so of the market currently stuck with sub-par integrated graphics. The server-side GPUs will want to [...]

Christoph Hartmann, the founder of 2K Games, is a supporter of server-based games and believes that it is the future of gaming. “What we think the future will be is the market will shift to more server-based games – similar to the movie business where most people just rent instead of view films in the [...]

Daily Fidelity received an e-mail from OnLive that simply said, “We will support VOIP.”

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Mercury News has an interview with Steve Perlman, founder of OnLive, where he gives the benefits of his game service over console systems. One major issue is the skyrocketing cost of developing games for the console. At one point in time, it cost only about 1 to 3 million dollars to create a game. Now [...]

An interesting article that outlines why OnLive will fail, drawing some comparisons to the Phantom. One major issue is that OnLive’s biggest asset, the internet, may also be its biggest downfall. Another is the lack of commitment shown by their current roster of publishers. They have promised games this winter, but nothing more.

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