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A quick look back at the first major streaming PC game companies, Gaikai and OnLive

John Callaham — Sun, 28 May 2023 15:00:01 +0000

In the early 2010s, two companies, OnLive and Gaikai, tried to get PC gamers to abandon their discs and hard drives for streaming services. However, both were later bought by Sony. Read more...

Sony acquires OnLive game streaming service

Chris Schroeder — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 09:44:01 +0000

Sony has acquired the game streaming service, OnLive, and will look to integrate some of the company's intellectual properties with existing Sony products and services. Read more...

OnLive reboots itself; will now stream games people already own on Steam

John Callaham — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 21:26:03 +0000

OnLive, which launched a way to stream games from a cloud server to PCs and televisions, has announced a reboot of its business that now offers a way for people to stream games they already own, Read more...

OnLive is still alive; teases future plans for OnLive Desktop

John Callaham — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:37:41 +0000

OnLive's leader Gary Lauder broke the streaming game service's long silence today with a new blog post that offers some teases on the company's upcoming plans. Read more...

PC gaming's biggest winner and loser of 2012

John Callaham — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:11:36 +0000

We pick the pick the biggest winner and loser in the PC game industry in 2012, from the rise of the Kickstarter site as a way to fund games to OnLive's financial troubles. Read more...

OnLive founder and CEO Steve Perlman departs

John Callaham — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:21:29 +0000

OnLive has announced that Steve Perlman, the founder and CEO of the streaming game service, will depart the company soon after its recently reorganization and layoffs. Read more...

Microsoft holding hiring mixer for former OnLive employees

John Callaham — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:31:05 +0000

Microsoft is holding a mixer at its Mountain View, California office designed specifically to recruit the members of the OnLive team that were laid off one week ago. Read more...

HTC to take $40 million loss due to OnLive changes

John Callaham — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:24:07 +0000

HTC will lose $40 million due to the changes at the streaming PC game company OnLive. Meanwhile, OnLive itself has released a statement saying that it has 1.5 million "active" subscribers. Read more...

Why OnLive matters

Tyler Holman — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:11:11 +0000

The future isn't looking so bright for OnLive, but before you throw it into the dustbin of history as some crazy dream to change gaming, take a second look and consider just how important it could be. Read more...

Onlive reportedly only has 1,800 concurrent users

John Callaham — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 21:02:11 +0000

A new report, via unnamed sources, claims that the OnLive streaming PC game service just had an average of 1,800 concurrent users, even as the company reorganizes and lays off many of its employees. Read more...

OnLive rumored to be shutting down ... or not? [Update]

John Callaham — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:23:22 +0000

The streaming PC gaming service OnLive is rumored to be closing its doors, with unconfirmed reports claiming that the company fired its entire staff earlier today. Read more...

Microsoft rumored to have considered buying OnLive

John Callaham — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 17:39:06 +0000

In a leaked series of old documents about Microsoft's plans for its next generation Xbox console, the company apparently considered a buyout of the OnLive streaming game service. Read more...

Sony rumored to announce streaming game deal at E3 2012

John Callaham — Thu, 24 May 2012 16:13:20 +0000

A new rumor claims that Sony will announce a deal at E3 2012 with either OnLive or Gaikai that would add game cloud streaming features to current Playstation hardware. Read more...

CloudOn 2.0 app brings Microsoft Office to iPad

John Callaham — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:22:31 +0000

The recently revealed company CloudOn has launched its 2.0 iPad app, letting people access Microsoft Office software via Apple's iPad along with other features. Read more...

OnLive Desktop goes legal

Tyler Holman — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:43:57 +0000

OnLive appears to have resolved their Windows 7 licensing issues with Microsoft by switching over to Windows Server 2008 R2 for their OnLive Desktop visualization service. Read more...

Gartner: Personal cloud to become center of digital life by 2014

John Callaham — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:13:24 +0000

The research firm Gartner has predicted in a new paper that online personal cloud services will replace the PC as the center of a user's digital life by the year 2014. Read more...

Microsoft disputes OnLive's use of Microsoft Office

John Callaham — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:59:12 +0000

Microsoft has issued a statement disputing the use of its Microsoft Office products in OnLive's recently launched OnLive Desktop and Desktop Plus streaming service for the iPad and Android tablets. Read more...

OnLive Desktop brings Microsoft Office to Android tablets

John Callaham — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:51:49 +0000

OnLive has announced it has now launched its OnLive Desktop cloud service for some Android-based tablets, including being able to run versions of Microsoft Office programs and Internet Explorer 9. Read more...

OnLive Desktop Plus launches; super-fast IE9 for iPad

John Callaham — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:35:24 +0000

OnLive Desktop Plus has now launched for the iPad, letting users gain access to Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 which can run at super-fast speeds, thanks to OnLive's gigabit-based cloud servers. Read more...

Google TV to add support for OnLive streaming gaming

John Callaham — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:10:26 +0000

Google has announced that it will add support for OnLive's streaming PC game service to devices that have the Google TV software, starting with the OnLive Viewer app. Read more...

OnLive Desktop to bring Microsoft Office to iPad

John Callaham — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:19:25 +0000

OnLive has announced a new and non-gaming application, OnLive Desktop, that will let owners of Apple's iPad to stream Microsoft Office apps to the tablet. The service will officially begin Thursday. Read more...

OnLive gamepad support comes to Sony Xperia Play

John Callaham — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:12:26 +0000

OnLive has announced that its streaming game service can now be played on the Android smartphone the Sony Xperia Play, using its slide out game pad to control the games. Read more...

OnLive iPad and Android app goes live

John Callaham — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 07:04:08 +0000

OnLive has announced the launch of its app for Apple's iPad and Android devices, allowing users of the streaming game service to finally play games via a number of tablets and other mobile products. Read more...

Gaming news round-up: October 28

John Callaham — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 01:16:43 +0000

Friday's gaming news round up includes items about a nice Halloween weekend sale on Steam, free games this weekend over at OnLive, the new Team Fortress 2 Halloween update and more. Read more...

OnLive UK goes live; partners with GAME retailer

John Callaham — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 07:56:24 +0000

OnLive, the streaming game service, has finally launched overseas in the UK and also announced a partnership with the GAME brick-and-mortar retailer in that country. Read more...

GameStop to give $50 gift cards to Deus Ex 3 PC customers

John Callaham — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:37:57 +0000

GameStop will give people who bought the PC version of Deus Ex Human Revolution a $50 gift card as compensation for removing the coupon card in the box for a free OnLive copy of the game. Read more...

GameStop pulls PC Deus Ex: Human Revolution from stores

John Callaham — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:55:14 +0000

GameStop has now decided to pull all boxed copies of the PC version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution from its retail store shelves due to the included OnLive free game coupon card. Read more...

OnLive adds parental controls and more new features

John Callaham — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:12:58 +0000

The streaming PC game service OnLive has added some new features for its customers including new parental controls, Facebook support and more. Read more...

GameStop removing free OnLive Deus Ex 3 coupons

John Callaham — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:40:26 +0000

A leaked memo from GameStop reveals that the game retailer is asking store employees to remove the free OnLive game code cards from the PC copies of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Read more...

Free OnLive copy of Deus Ex: Human Revolution inside PC box

John Callaham — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:17:07 +0000

People who purchase new PC copies of Deus Ex: Human Revolution can get a code for a free copy of the game for the OnLive streaming game service. Read more...

GameStop beta testing console game streaming service

John Callaham — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:10:56 +0000

GameStop has revealed that it is now beta testing a streaming game service for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 games but that the service won't officially launch until 2012. Read more...

Onlive to launch in the UK September 22

John Callaham — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:38:17 +0000

The OnLive cloud-based streaming PC game service will officially launch in the UK on September 22, over a year after its launch in the US. Read more...

Gaikai secures $30 million in more funding

John Callaham — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:26:08 +0000

The trend to offering PC games via cloud-based broadband streaming services appears to be gaining steam, at least as far as investors are concerned. This week one of the two leading streaming game companies, Gaikai,... Read more...

OnLive CEO: Cloud-based games to replace all others in 10 years

John Callaham — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:02:51 +0000

Currently the concept of playing games via a streaming cloud-based service is in its infancy but according to Steve Perlman the CEO of OnLive, playing games via a cloud server could replace all other ways... Read more...

OnLive to launch cloud-based web browser this summer

John Callaham — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:05:17 +0000

The web browser wars will be getting a new combatant later this summer and it comes from a familiar company. OnLive is planning to release its own web browser using the cloud-based streaming technology that... Read more...

New wireless tech could allow for lots more data bandwidth

John Callaham — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:47:07 +0000

What is Shannon's Law? It's a theory (also known as the Shannon–Hartley theorem) proposed by the late Bell Labs scientist Claude Shannon in 1948. In very basic terms, the law is supposed to show that... Read more...

OnLive in talks with Sony and Microsoft on adding tech to PS3 and Xbox 360

John Callaham — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:20:10 +0000

The OnLive streaming cloud-based gaming service is in talks with both Sony and Microsoft about bring its technology to the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles. This revelation comes from an interview at Computer and... Read more...

OnLive announces business uses for cloud-based service

John Callaham — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:32:34 +0000

OnLive, the streaming PC game service, is now branching out into more "serious" applications for its cloud-based technology. The company sent out a press release this week announcing that it is teaming up with Juniper... Read more...

Gaikai gets deal to stream game demos via Walmart.com

John Callaham — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:07:49 +0000

In the business of streaming PC games, OnLive might be the biggest company but its biggest rival Gaikai is aiming to take a chuck of this growing market. Today Venture Beat reports that Gaikai has... Read more...

OnLive to offer UK service this fall and more

John Callaham — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 23:00:56 +0000

The OnLive streaming game service decided not to wait until E3 2011 next week to make a number of major announcements. The service, which officially launched here in the US close to a year ago,... Read more...