I just tested out the onlive gaming service www.onlive.com
You install a small program onto your system, I think it is browser based like a plugin. Then you can browse over twenty games, and just click PLAY and play them! You don't install anything on your PC, you don't fuss with drivers or anything. You just play. And these are top AAA titles like Dirt 2, NBA2K11, Darksiders, Just Cause 2... Top titles! I got a warning that my connection had a high latency, but I picked Darksiders to play, which is an Action adventure where you chain combos together etc. And it worked! It felt as fluid as playing World of Warcraft...and I didn't have trouble attacking or dodging. This service is just incredible! You can rent games for 3 days for like 6 US, or buy them outright for say 20US or so. And then to play you just fire up ONlive, choose them from your library..and click Play. Savegames and everything are stored on the ONlive servers. It works like this: Onlive has massive server farms, and each time you want to play a game it basically launches a Virtual Server just for you. It actually 'runs' the game on this virtual server, and just streams the video content to you over the internet, and accepts your keyboard input. So this works on : ANY COMPUTER WITH A INTERNET CONNECTION!! You just need to be able to view 1080p video, and you can play. So Nettops...old laptops...you name it! Because the only thing your computer is doing is processing a video stream (Like Youtube). Oh...and while you play it records your game...and you can go back and save Clips from your playsession and post online. You also have access to the Arena where you can jump in and out of running games just by clicking on little screens that show the game actually in progress. This is mind boggling really :-) If you actually live in the states, or in areas where the Onlive servers are located, gameplay should be even better. I highly recommend you all to give it a try! There must be something on there you want to play :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328552 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
