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Movie streaming heading to OnLive?
Service due to start next year.
Still-in-short-trousers cloud gaming service OnLive is working up plans to start streaming movies, reports claim.
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OnLive to launch $9.99 monthly subs plan
Get unlimited access to 40 titles.
Cloud gaming set-up OnLive has just announced a new initiative that will give users unlimited access to a library of games for $9.99 a month.
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OnLive early adopters get first year free
First 25,000 sign-ups also get free game.
OnLive is offering the first 25,000 people who pre-registered for the game-streaming service a free year's subscription and a free game.
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Perlman: OnLive to launch this winter
New funds power the cloud dream.
Steve Perlman's dreams of a "formal" winter launch for his ambitious cloud-computing company OnLive may be realised, as the latest round of fund-raising proves a huge success.
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Publisher concerned about lag, price.
EA has aired concerns about the pricing and usability of the new cloud gaming microconsole OnLive.
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BT hopes to launch OnLive in late 2011
More launch details later this year.
OnLive may be set to launch in the US next week, but the cloud gaming service won't be available in the UK until late next year according to partner British Telecom.
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OnLive convinces TV giant VIZIO
Game-streaming out of the box.
If OnLive really won't work, then where did all that investment money come from? More to the point - why has American telly giant VIZIO agreed to add OnLive intrinsically to its new tellies, Blu-ray players, phones and tablets?
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OnLive to launch in UK this Autumn
New universal controller to widen reach.
Cloud gaming platform OnLive finally arrives in the UK this Autumn, more than a year after its US launch last June.
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Call of Duty Elite beta now on PS3
Stats entertainment.
The Call of Duty Elite beta goes live on PlayStation 3 today, Activision has announced.
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Ni No Kuni gets Western release
Gorgeous Level-5/Ghibli RPG localised.
Impossibly lovely Level-5/Studio Ghibli collaboration Ni No Kuni is heading West, according to a GameStop report.
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Inafune offered to finish MML3
Capcom: "We have no need to do that."
Departed Capcom development chief Keiji Inafune offered to finish the cancelled Mega Man Legends 3 project, but Capcom declined, according to a Game Blurb report.
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Chair clarifies Shadow Complex 2 talk
Potential publisher being sought.
Epic's Cliff Bleszinski took some time out from Gears 3 promo duties this weekend to discuss a sequel to acclaimed XBLA platformer Shadow Complex.
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Dragon Quest Monsters remake announced
Terry's Wonderland due on 3DS next year.
A remake of the original Dragon Quest Monsters Game Boy Color spin-off arrives on the 3DS next year, Square Enix has announced.
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Gears 3! F1! Resi 4 HD!
It's here, the Eurogamer Expo 2011, our fourth and biggest year so far. We've taken all your feedback from the past three years, and our experience, and come up with a show we want to go to. Tickets have basically gone (there are scraps so be quick), and we're all wibbly-wobbly at the knees to see first hordes trample through the doors. You'll get extra marks for spotting me at the show and I may even kiss you.
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Sony plans unobtrusive Vita updates
Plus, more on Remote Play features.
Sony hopes to make the PlayStation Vita's firmware updates less intrusive than on the PlayStation 3 and PSP, according to worldwide studios chief Shuhei Yoshida.
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DC Universe Online goes free to play
On PC and PlayStation 3.
In October superhero MMO DC Universe Online becomes free to play, Sony Online Entertainment has announced.
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World of Darkness to feature permadeath
More details on CCP's latest emerge.
Forthcoming vampire MMO World of Darkness will likely feature permadeath, according to developer CCP.
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Deus Ex boss battles outsourced
"If you panic, you're going to die."
The boss battles in superb science fiction action role-playing game Deus Ex: Human Revolution were not developed by Eidos Montreal.
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Review | Resident Evil 4 HD
Buy it at a high price?
As a title, Resident Evil 4 HD is either a lie or the most severe case of 'lost in translation' since the SNES era. What's on the block here would be most accurately described as Resident Evil 4 Upscaled or, if you're feeling saucy, "the PC version".
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Sony: 3DS circle pad add-on "shocking"
Yoshida reckons Capcom demanded it.
Top Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida was "shocked" to see Nintendo's circle pad add-on announcement and speculated that the peripheral is a result of a demand from Monster Hunter developer Capcom.
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Syndicate developer making new IP
With Swedish director Josef Fares.
Syndicate developer Starbreeze Studios is making a new IP with Swedish director Josef Fares.
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Gamers help scientists unravel enzyme
"Ingenuity of gamers is a formidable force."
Gamers have helped scientists unravel the structure of an enzyme closely associated with HIV.
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OnLive heads to iPad, Android tablets
Dedicated app coming this autumn.
Cloud gaming service OnLive is heading to iPad, iPhone and Android tablets and smartphones this autumn, via a new app for the US and Europe.
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Modern Warfare 3 at Eurogamer Expo
Playable throughout the show.
Eurogamer is thrilled to announce that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 completes the line-up of playable games at this year's Eurogamer Expo.
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OnLive boss counters lag criticism
"The algorithms are getting better."
OnLive boss Steve Perlman has countered criticism of his video game streaming tech from those who say it suffers from lag.
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Digital Foundry | OnLive Latency: The Reckoning
Can Cloud gaming really compete with PC and console response?
OnLive latency has finally been measured, and the results are pleasantly surprising. In Digital Foundry's independent tests, we achieved an optimum response of 150ms - similar to playing Killzone 2 locally, and in line with Rare's claims for lag when using the new Kinect camera controller.
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Digital Foundry | Digital Foundry vs. OnLive
At stake: the fundamentals of gaming as we know it.
OnLive. Hands-on. Away from controlled conditions, in the public domain, out of beta, and no longer covered by non-disclosure agreements, this article has been a long time coming.
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OnLive does "everything" Wii U does
Steve Perlman casts doubt on consoles.
Nintendo believes Wii U will change the way we play games, but according to OnLive boss Steve Perlman, everything it does UK gamers will be able to experience this autumn.
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Feature | GDC: Why OnLive Can't Possibly Work
Cloud computing or cloud cuckoo land?
I love industry-shaking announcements. I love new, game-changing hardware, and I'm absolutely, almost literally exploding with excitement about the new OnLive gaming concept. I love that front-end, and I love the way OnLive uses video because video is what my company, Digital Foundry, specialises in, and what I spend a lot of my time experimenting with. I want this to be brilliant so much that it's almost painful.
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Review | World of Goo
All your squishes granted.
Physics has given us many gifts. Paint cans that pelt across the room when you walk into them, fallen enemies who collapse into difficult yoga positions, see-saw puzzles, cowboy hats flying off, oranges you can throw at a soldier - physics has given us all these things. If the Large Hadron Collider does cough out a couple of black holes, on balance the end of the world will be acceptable payback for all the fun physics provided along the way.
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