OnLive :: GDC

This is huge.  Well that’s an understatement; MONUMENTAL.

OnLive, allows you to play virtually any game, on virtually any PC or Mac, or any TV.

ANY

Besides the fact that looking at those three letters together look weird after awhile of staring at them, you don’t need a high end PC or Mac (not like Apple makes very many low end computers), and with a console you buy from the company itself, play on any compatible TV.  Provided your TV has an HDMI port and you have an ethernet cable nearby said television, you can play on this fantastic console, any game; ANY game.

• Halo 3 on OnLive
• LittleBigPlanet on OnLive
• WoW on OnLive

I think I should eat my words just a teensy bit, because I am not sure it will be able to play Super Mario Galaxy, but might play Super Smash Bros. Brawl; WoW might be far-fetched too.

Entry level PC/Macs are included in the fun too.

MacBook Air rejoice!  Eee PC rejoice!

All your game console needs is an ethernet cable, HDMI cable, and a provided USB cable.  Did I mention that OnLive’s console fits into your pocket?

Granted that OnLive will need developer support to get this to work, they aren’t short of it!  It’s March, and OnLive goes live (no pun intended, but clearly was intended because I said “no pun intended” in the first place) in Winter, and already has other companies’ faith in the service.  Look at this list:

• Electronic Arts
• Ubisoft
• Take-Two Interactive
• WB Games (Warner Brothers)
• Eidos
• Atari
• CodeMasters
• Epic Games
• THQ
• 2D Boy (indie developer that brought you “World of Goo”)

Also, OnLive is getting huge support from the people at NVIDIA!

Games that are officially announced are bolded, and games that appeared in trailers for the service but has not been officially confirmed yet are italicized:

• Unreal Tournament III
• Burnout Paradise
• Mirror’s Edge
• Tom Clancy’s HAWX
• Crysis Warhead
• BioShock
• Gears of War
• World of Goo
• GRID
• Prince of Persia
• LEGO Batman
• Tomb Raider: Underworld

You have to go check this out, there are so many more features that will bring you on your knees in tears!  This brings GameTap and InstantAction to shame (WTF is with all the camel-cased service names?!?!)!

OnLive

Did I forget to mention that members of the executive team worked HUGE and NUMEROUS companies, one who founded Mozilla and Firefox AND Thunderbird ( as well as developed web “cookies” and SSL), and the CEO has been president of something-or-other at both Apple AND Microsoft?