OnLive will blow your mind

News have been filtering out from the Game Developers Conference about a new service that will debut in the winter of this year. The service is called OnLive and it promises to deliver a high quality gaming experience without the need of having a high end PC or, for that matter, a proprietary gaming console.

OnLive supposedly took seven years to develop and it’s really just an extension of cloud computing, albeit an incredibly elegant and practical implementation of it. The way it works is that the OnLive server clusters will do the majority of the processing for any game you wish to play, sending rendered frames to your less powerful computer. The developer promises that almost any PC or a TV with a special set top box will be able to run resource-intensive PC games.  The only thing your PC needs to be able to do is run a 1 MB browser plug in. Read more