Onlive`

[Dave]

So has anyone tried the 12mo 'free' promo (not really free, just free servcei you need to pay for the games)

I tried it out for a bit - Demos of A.Creed2, Dirt2, Unreal... everything was so fuzzy it hurt my eyes, think the cable speed/lag/etc was holding me back.

[Alan]

Yeah I tried it for like 10 minutes, played Borderlands.

Seems to work pretty well.

[Dave]

Was too fuzzy for me, Borderlands looks ok just the image quality was too poor to be playable. Sound was fine.

[Dave]

Looks like Onlive went belly up and laid off everyone and sold.

Hopefully to Netflix! Hehe

[Jonathan]

http://www.gaikai.com/open-platform

Gaikai is still a thing, but that's only for demos.

[quantus]

http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainmen ... tructuring

As part of the proceeding -- called an Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors -- all previous OnLive shareholders, including its employees and founder Steve Perlman, lost their stakes in the company and OnLive laid off all its employees, the company said in the statement. The newly formed company that acquired OnLive's assets will operate under OnLive's name, continue to offer its services and operate its game service and has offered jobs to nearly half of the company's former employees.

Other company executives saw their salaries slashed "to allow the company to hire as many employees as possible within the current budget," the company said in its statement.
OnLive plans to offer contract work in return for stock options to those employees who weren't immediately offered a job at the newly restructured company, OnLive said in the statement. With additional funding the new OnLive expects to hire back more of the former workers and make new hires.