While high-powered, high-price consoles like the PlayStation 3 languish on shelves, Rearden Studios thinks it has a new way to put cutting-edge graphics in the living room of gamers without the expense and hassle: just strip out all the system’s guts. The pocket-sized OnLive Games on Demand device, announced at this year’s Game Developers Conference, has no powerful graphics processor, massive hard drive, or even game discs – everything you need to play comes on demand over a broadband Internet connection.
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Onlive Looks to Offer On-Demand, HD Gaming…Without a Console
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.
Technology Dictionary: Common Terms Defined
Listen to two tech-savvy people chat away and your head will spin: It’s all gigahertz this and megapixel that. Thankfully for those who can’t tell the difference between Blu-ray and Bluetooth, HDMI and HDTV, we’re happy to provide a handy glossary to several common acronyms, phrases and other industry jargon relating to televisions, computers, mobile phones and other consumer electronics:
Will Microsoft + Danger = Apple Butt Kicking?
Microsoft’s acquisition of Danger could be a game changer. Danger, before the iPhone, was arguably the hottest Smartphone for the young celebrity and under-20 set of teen phone users. This is the company that created the extremely popular SideKick series of phones for T-Mobile (and often used by stars like Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan etc). Vastly easier to use than any other previous Smartphone, and actually still better than the iPhone for anything that is text related, the Danger phone only lacked two things: The elegance of the iPhone’s hardware, and Steve Jobs to make it as big as the iPhone.
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