Archive for October, 2010

Creating Your Skating Paradise with OnLive

Posted in OnLive 2010 with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 26, 2010 by Joe Bentley

It is not often that you stumble across a game that gives you a flashback to your youth. I grew up in Santa Cruz, California, the Mecca of skating, during the Rob Roskopp era. And I must say, Ubisoft just landed big air! We’re stoked to introduce Shaun White Skateboarding–a labor of love for the multi-sport star that was three years in the making.

It’s all about creating your own skateboarding paradise through the choices you make: Ride the free-form rails that go anywhere you want. Bring to life a black-and-white cityscape by completing big tricks. Skate as trees sprout from the ground and your environment changes inches in front of you. Nothing is set; everything is transformable. It is an innovative experience that really captures the addictive flow of skating.

The game is available now on the OnLive Game Service. Sign up free with no monthly fees and no credit card required. Play the free demo and we know you’ll get hooked. Get a PlayPass at the end of the demo and you can continue playing without starting over!

So, check out the truly original gameplay in Shaun White Skateboarding and skate OnLive!

—Joe Bentley, VP of Engineering

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Packing OnLive with Your Passport

Posted in OnLive 2010 with tags , , , , , , , , , on October 13, 2010 by Steve Perlman

You can take it with you: U.S.-based OnLive users can now play their games and try free demos when traveling overseas and over the border!

With OnLive, high-performance gaming is no longer limited to the home. Until now, dedicated gamers had to drag around high-powered laptops and bulky accessories whenever traveling … or else just leave their rigs, consoles and favorite games behind.

OnLive changes the traveling equation: You can play any game on almost any PC or Mac within your reach. It doesn’t matter if it’s your ultra-light netbook or your friend’s old computer. Wherever you’re staying, you can pick up a game from where you last left off or sit back and watch live gameplay in the Arena (a favorite pastime of mine while waiting for a delayed flight to board).

Although OnLive has data centers throughout the world in various stages of tests, at this point only the U.S. data centers are enabled for the full OnLive Game Service. So, as I explained earlier this year, if you travel too far from our U.S. data centers, you’ll eventually reach the point where you can’t play games. This limitation will be eliminated once we open up non-U.S. locations. Then, you’ll automatically connect to the closest data center and be able to play games almost anywhere.

The best way to see if OnLive works for you outside the U.S. is to give it a try. And, you can look forward to the performance getting steadily better (and the range increasing) in the coming months. So if it doesn’t work now, definitely try again later.

OnLive data centers for the rest of the world are coming soon! www.onlive.be and www.onlive.lu just made announcements and there are more on the way.

Until then, safe travels and enjoy OnLive gaming on the go!

—Steve Perlman, OnLive Founder & CEO

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Get Borderlands GotY & First Access to the Duke Nukem Forever Demo

Posted in OnLive 2010 with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 8, 2010 by John Spinale

Have some good news to share today. Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition will be available on the OnLive Game Service the day of its release this Tuesday, October 12, 2010. This GotY edition combines the main version of the game, which many of you have been enjoying on OnLive for months now, along with all 4 expansion packs available to date (“The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned,” “Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot,” “The Secret Armory of General Knoxx” and “Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution”).

And, here’s the kicker: with the purchase of a Full PlayPass to the GotY edition, you’ll become an honorary member of the Duke Nukem Forever “First Access Club,” which will provide access to the Duke Nukem Forever demo (…when it’s ready!). Duke is an unforgettable video game hero, and it’ll be a blast to see what 2K Games and Gearbox Software have in store for the triumphant return of “The King.” Early glimpses look very encouraging!

These great games will be available for instant play for ALL OnLive users—meaning the OnLive Game Service will be the only place that all you Mac users can get in on the action. Sign up with no monthly fees for membership and no credit card required through the new Free Trial program!

And if you already purchased a Full PlayPass to the original Borderlands game, we’ll make sure you can get in on all the fun as well. We’ll send an email to you directly with the details, but just know that in a few weeks we’ll be offering the add-ons in our Marketplace, which you can purchase separately or as a four-pack. Can’t get enough of that stylized shooter RPG goodness!

So get ready to fire up Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition instantly next Tuesday—and then “Just Play” as The King some time soon!

—John Spinale, VP of Games and Media

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OnLive: Just Play for Free!

Posted in OnLive 2010 with tags , , , , , , on October 4, 2010 by Steve Perlman
Free Trial

It’s official: There will be no base monthly fee for the OnLive Game Service going forward. WOOT!

Free Instant-play Demos, Free Massive Spectating, Free Brag Clip™ videos, messaging, friending.

No credit card needed, unless you decide to buy a 3-day, 5-day or Full PlayPass. And ongoing access with no monthly fee. Of course, we’ve had a promotion waiving the monthly fee for the first year, so this announcement is confirming what we had hoped—that we can continue without a monthly fee beyond the first year. Although we wish we could have confirmed no monthly fee from the get-go, pioneering a major new video game paradigm is hard: we had to first grow to a large base of regular users before we could understand usage patterns and operating costs. Now that we’ve reached that stage, we can confidently say a monthly fee is not needed, which deserves a double WOOT! WOOT!

We’re excited because this opens the door for the OnLive Game Service to be used by everyone whenever they feel like it, whether for playing a full game on OnLive, or for just instantly playing a demo before buying a game for a console or a PC. Or, even for people just wanting to spectate games in the Arena or friend other gamers. Whatever interests you in gaming, OnLive provides it instantly, without complexity or hassle.

And…stay tuned for some exciting announcements coming this holiday season:

  • MicroConsole™ TV Adapters and OnLive Game Pad Controllers in manufacturing now: Founding Members get first dibs.
  • Just Cause 2 contest going on now. Follow @OnLiveCommunity for more contest news.
  • More international announcements coming. Check out recent ones: www.onlive.be and www.onlive.lu.
  • Improved video quality and lower latency.

Come one, come all. Just Play!

—Steve Perlman, Founder & CEO

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