OnLive Streaming Game Service Going Public June 17th, for $15 a Month [Gaming]
Remember OnLive? The online game service, which renders PC games in the cloud and streams them to any Mac or PC, regardless of its graphics power? Well, it’s coming, for real, on June 17th. It’ll $15 a month, base.
The release will coincide with the E3 conference this year, and will be available to the 48 contiguous states. No word on when the currently running beta will die, or on the full title list they’ll have at launch, but says Maximum PC exie Will Smith:
OnLive is looking much more like a service, than a demo that streams PC games over the net… looked much better this year than last. No blocky compression artifacts.
Which is promising, because to be honest, it looked fine when we saw it in 2009.
CNET’s got a little extra info, including a preliminary games list, subject to change at E3:
Borderlands, Dragon Age Origins, Mass Effect 2, Assassin’s Creed II, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, and Metro 2033
These are “anticipated” games, and they’re just a sampler. As for the service’s tardy arrival (it was supposed to go public over the winter), OnLive says they just wanted to wait and make the service “better.” [Will Smith]
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