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OnLive cuts price of CloudLift subscription fee nearly in half
OnLive launched CloudLift last month, a service that lets users stream its selection of games from capable machines to devices that wouldn't normally be able to play them - think tablets and underpowered computers. CloudLift used to cost $14.99 a month,...
computerandvideogames.com posted by Joystiq Apr 13 2014 22:15 GMT
OnLive Lives Again: New Feature Syncs With Steam Games
Remember OnLive? The service aimed to provide streaming videogames to the world, but fell foul of confusing pricing, slow internet connections and the apparent mismanagement. The company never really shut down, avoiding bankruptcy by being bought and re-...
onlive.co.uk posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Mar 05 2014 17:30 GMT
OnLive's new senior VP of engineering to push tablet, Smart TV
OnLive is looking into the tablet and Smart TV gaming market with its latest hire, Don Gordon, founder of Smart TV tech company Bulldog United. Gordon is OnLive's new senior VP of engineering, and his goal is to drive integration of OnLive onto tablets a...
joystiq.com posted by Joystiq Mar 20 2013 21:00 GMT
Flailing OnLive Sold For Only $4.8m
Oh crikey. You may remember in August that online game streaming service, OnLive, was in a spot of bother. Stories of impending bankruptcy came on the heels of a company that had previously been valued at an extraordinary $1.8bn. The next day news came t...
bbc.co.uk posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Oct 10 2012 18:00 GMT
OnLive and Gaikai functionality still on board for Wikipad
During a private demo of the near-final Wikipad this week, Joystiq was able to grill Wikipad president of sales Fraser Townley about next month's launch. Specifically, we wanted to learn whether OnLive and Gaikai functionality - the former with its recen...
joystiq.com posted by Joystiq Sep 26 2012 23:30 GMT
Well, One Guy Kept His Job at OnLive
#onlive That would be the CEO, Steve Perlman. More than 200 other employees were summarily dismissed when the cloud-gaming service caved in last week, though a corporate statement said half would be hired b...
mcvuk.com posted by Kotaku Aug 25 2012 03:00 GMT
British Telecom says it's 'highly likely' to write off OnLive stake
British Telecom has reported that it is "highly likely" to simply write off the 2.6 percent stake it invested in the recently rebooted cloud computing service, OnLive. The issue isn't yet settled, but a BT spokesperson told TechRadar that "the 2.6 percen...
engadget.com posted by Joystiq Aug 22 2012 04:59 GMT
What the Hell Happened with OnLive?
#onlive I remember the first time I saw OnLive demoed for me. Three years ago, I was ushered into a conference room on Manhattan's Midtown East neighborhood and saw Crysis running of the cloud gaming servi...
gizmodo.com posted by Kotaku Aug 21 2012 21:00 GMT
OnLive Is Still Called OnLive, Says Nothing Is Changing
#onlive Ever since Friday—when reports started surfacing that cloud gaming pioneer OnLive was shutting down and ceasing to exist—speculation has mounted over who, if anyone, had purchased the r...
lauderpartners.com posted by Kotaku Aug 20 2012 01:28 GMT
Did OnLive Gut Its Employees' Stock Options to Make Itself Cheaper to Buy Out?
#onlive In the aftermath of OnLive's not-really-bankruptcy, not-really-restructuring comes this rumor from TechCrunch, which may explain why the cloud-gaming service would want to, effectively, terminate it...
techcrunch.com posted by Kotaku Aug 19 2012 19:30 GMT
Weak Traffic, Low Subscribers Meant Something Had to Happen—but OnLive Employees Didn't Expect the End
#onlive All of OnLive's 200 employees worked daily with the cloud gaming service's traffic numbers, and knew that something big had to happen for the company around this time of the year. That's not to say ...
online.wsj.com posted by Kotaku Aug 18 2012 18:30 GMT
Source: OnLive losing 'at least 50 percent of staff,' bought out by unknown third party
OnLive let go "at least 50 percent" of its staff today, Engadget learned, and the company was purchased by an unknown third party. A former employee confirmed layoff reports that popped up earlier this afternoon and recounted the events that led to today...
engadget.com posted by Joystiq Aug 17 2012 22:46 GMT
Documenting the death of OnLive: notes from the company's final meeting
"I've been a non-stop fundraising machine," OnLive CEO Steve Perlman told his entire staff yesterday morning. "And I finally got to the point where I just could not bring in enough funding to carry this thing forward." The hundreds of employees that make...
joystiq.com posted by Joystiq Aug 18 2012 14:00 GMT
Twist! – OnLive Bought, Gets ‘Substantial Funding’
Things were looking pretty grim for OnLive earlier, but now they’re just looking… confusing. The service found itself looking at a seriously stormy forecast (with a strong chance of bankruptcy – something not generally followed by a rainbow – fig...
onlive.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Aug 18 2012 09:00 GMT
OnLive Sold to 'Newly Formed Company,' Vows to Continue Service
#onlive Bad news always slides under the door at the end of Friday, and today's was a rumor of some kind of quasi -bankruptcy for the cloud gaming service OnLive and, more importantly, mass layoffs of its e...
theverge.com posted by Kotaku Aug 18 2012 00:21 GMT
Source: OnLive losing 'at least 50 percent of staff,' bought out by unknown third-party
OnLive let go "at least 50 percent" of its staff today, Engadget learned, and the company was purchased by an unknown third-party. A former employee confirmed layoff reports that popped up earlier this afternoon and recounted the events that led to today...
engadget.com posted by Joystiq Aug 17 2012 22:46 GMT
Source: OnLive losing 'at least 50 percent of staff,' purchased by unknown third-party
OnLive let go "at least 50 percent" of its staff today, Engadget learned, and the company was purchased by an unknown third-party. A former employee confirmed layoff reports that popped up earlier this afternoon and recounted the events that led to today...
engadget.com posted by Joystiq Aug 17 2012 22:46 GMT
OnLive losing 'at least 50 percent of staff,' purchased by unknown third-party
OnLive let go "at least 50 percent" of its staff today, Engadget learned, and the company was purchased by an unknown third-party. A former employee confirmed layoff reports that popped up earlier this afternoon and recounted the events that lead to toda...
engadget.com posted by Joystiq Aug 17 2012 22:46 GMT
Rumours Abound That OnLive May File For Bankruptcy
Gosh, this is a little out of the blue. Kotaku are reporting tonight that cloud gaming pioneers OnLive are about to declare bankruptcy. This comes from someone they say is a source inside the company, despite OnLive’s PR denying the rumour. OnLive is o...
kotaku.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Aug 17 2012 20:22 GMT
OnLive on rumors of closure: 'of course not'
InXile Entertainment's Brian Fargo tweeted this morning that he heard from someone inside Onlive that it was closing down, and has now posted that everyone on staff has lost their jobs, and that "a new company will be formed" soon after. A Mashable repo...
mashable.com posted by Joystiq Aug 17 2012 20:15 GMT
OnLive spreads to Belgium
Belgium is the first country in Europe after the UK to receive OnLive streaming, so let us be the first to say congratulations in your native language of Dutch: gefeliciteerd. If you're from the southern, French-speaking part of the country, then félici...
blog.onlive.com posted by Joystiq Jul 31 2012 04:30 GMT
OnLive controller to support Nexus 7 soon
What's that? You say that Google finally shipped you that sweet Nexus 7, but you can't play your precious OnLive games on the Android app? Take heart, because OnLive is working to add support for its Bluetooth controller to Google's new 7-inch tablet, ac...
engadget.com posted by Joystiq Jul 18 2012 00:30 GMT
Vizio's 'Co-Star' makes your TV smarter, hooks it up with OnLive
Our dumb old HDTVs don't have the fancy bells and whistles of today's models, what with their Google Chrome internet browsing and OnLive game streaming integration. Vizio apparently understands this frustration, and is launching the Vizio "Co-Star Stream...
engadget.com posted by Joystiq Jun 26 2012 16:15 GMT
OnLive coming to browsers, smart TVs with more viewing capabilities
OnLive has announced that its popular game streaming service is headed out to even more platforms, including LG Smart TVs with Google TV, and a Internet browser near you thanks to a new In-Browser Gaming feature. Starting today, players will be able to g...
joystiq.com posted by Joystiq Jun 05 2012 17:15 GMT
Report: Sony Close to Buying a Cloud Gaming Service, Potentially Transforming Future of PlayStation
#playstation Sony might be in talks to acquire either OnLive or Gaikai—the two biggest cloud gaming providers—according to a report on Edge that follows up on previous articles on MCV and VG 24...
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 30 2012 21:00 GMT
L.A. Noire’s Tablet Version Commits Some Unforgivable Crimes
#lanoire Think about it: L.A. Noire should work on a tablet. Rockstar's 2011 crime drama essentially updates the old-school adventure game formula that has players going places and clicking on items. A nat...
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Apr 02 2012 18:30 GMT
Hands-on with LA Noire on a tablet with OnLive
Getting a technically complex game like LA Noire running on a tablet is an impressive feat, and one that OnLive has every right to crow about. That Rockstar took the time to implement touch controls so that LA Noire could be played natively is equally la...
joystiq.com posted by Joystiq Mar 23 2012 23:30 GMT
OnLive and Rockstar release touch-controlled version of LA Noire
Way back in December, when OnLive first announced it would release a set of tablet apps for its cloud gaming service, we heard that Rockstar Games was also working on touch controls for LA Noire, making the console and PC game behave more like a native t...
joystiq.com posted by Joystiq Mar 20 2012 05:01 GMT