OnLive Gets Dissolved, Assets Sold To Another Company

It seems the saying “to good to be true” has come to pass for OnLive. The company known to be number one in cloud-based gaming with a value of nearly $1.8 Billion at one time, just wasn’t able to gain enough traction to make it all work. As of today the company’s assets have been acquired by another unknown company, this however does not mean the services provided by OnLive will be shut down. Instead, according to a company statement, We can now confirm that the assets of OnLive, Inc. have been acquired into a newly formed company and is backed by substantial funding, and which will continue to operate the OnLive Game and Desktop services, as well as support all of OnLives apps and devices, as well as game, productivity and enterprise partnerships,” and that “The new company is hiring a large percentage of OnLive, Inc.s staff across all departments and plans to continue to hire substantially more people, including additional OnLive employees. All previously announced products and services, including those in the works, will continue and there is no expected interruption of any OnLive services. We apologize that we were unable to comment on this transaction until it completed and were limited to reporting on news related to OnLives businesses. Now that the transaction is complete, we are able to make this statement.

While details about the transaction have not been disclosed, the company that once sought to bring high end PC gaming to the masses is no more, hopefully with better funding and a bit of luck the new company can turn things around. That said it seems many employees are not happy with how things have turned out with some 70 or so rumored to have been invited to join the new company out of hundrends of former employees. In the end OnLive is essentially no more but its services will continue on. More info on the subject can be found at the source below.