OnLive Available Now for iPad – Android Version in Beta
OnLive today announced immediate availability of the free OnLive Viewer mobile app for iPad, a demonstration of OnLive Viewer beta for the just-released Android Samsung Galaxy Tab as well as a series of mobility breakthroughs in entertainment and computing. OnLive, for those who are unfamiliar, is a cloud based streaming gaming service that does for games what Netflix does for movies and TV shows. You can install OnLive’s Mac or PC clients, or buy the company’s $99 TV appliance, then purchase daily or monthly passes to play any game from the company’s expanding library. OnLive’s servers stream the game as you play it and you’re controlling a live video stream of the game, which is running on a server. The idea is that as long as you have a decent broadband connection, you don’t have to spend all the money or time to keep a gaming rig updated for the latest and greatest titles.
Spectating of other players is by far the most popular OnLive activity after gameplay itself, and the convenience and mobility of iPad and Android tablets adds an incredible dimension to it, said John Spinale, OnLive VP of Games and Media. Watching live games and interacting with the people playing them takes social gaming to an entirely new level. Its unlike any other experience. And people love it.
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