At this year’s Game Developers’ Conference, game publishers and developers are always looking to get eyeballs, mindshare, and ink deals that will catapult their efforts to the next level. This year, quite a lot of buzz is centered on OnLive, a startup that’s just slipped out of stealth mode but which claims to have been working on its product offering for seven years. And what is that product? The Onlive Game Service, which cleans to be an on-demand game platform that can offer the latest and most demanding game titles on any television, any reasonable PC or Mac, or their own inexpensive MicroConsole at a very low price. OnLive promises a world of gaming without No high-end computer rigs, pricey gaming console, discs—and major game publishers have already signed on to offer titles on the service when it debuts later this year.
