DAILY GAMING: Ouya Kickstarter Ends at over $8.5 million, Four Controller Support

Earlier this morning the popular OUYA Kickstarter campaign came to a close, as I’m sure you know, well above its initial goal. With a total of 63,416 backers the OUYA received a total of $8,596,475 in funding when it was all said and done.

Back in July OUYA set a now seemingly modest funding goal of $950,000 when the Kickstarter campaign went up. Within a short 7 hours the campaign became the most successful Kickstarter project to date.

Ouya founder and CEO Julie Urhman told IGN back in July, Continue reading “DAILY GAMING: Ouya Kickstarter Ends at over $8.5 million, Four Controller Support” »

DAILY GAMING: Ouya Gets Final Fantasy 3 HD At Launch And Square Enix Support

Tuesday, 31st July 2012
Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: android, Final Fantasy III, kickstarter, onlive, ouya, RPG, Square Enix

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OUYA has stirred up quite a buzz over the last few weeks with its incredibly successful Kickstarter campaign and its new take on “console” gaming.

Today Square Enix has confirmed that its classic RPG Final Fantasy III will be released for the new Android based console.

Final Fantasy III will be a launch title for the Ouya which is expected to release in Continue reading “DAILY GAMING: Ouya Gets Final Fantasy 3 HD At Launch And Square Enix Support” »

DAILY GAMING: OUYA Adds OnLive Support at Launch, Controller Image

Friday, 27th July 2012
Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: android, Bruce Grove, controller, Darksiders II, kickstarter, onlive, ouya, Ravaged, Rubik's cube

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We have been reporting to you lately about the OUYA gaming console that has been garnering a ton of attention as of lately, both good and bad. Today some positive news out of the OUYA camp surfaced pertaining to the Android-based gaming console in terms of OnLive support at launch. A full image of the OUYA controller has been released as well (below).

The announcement that OnLive is coming to OUYA at launch was made on the Kickstarter Updates page today. “Through OnLive, OUYA will offer hundreds of playable titles from great publishers. Hundreds of games, streamed right to you, on demand. Pretty sweet,” the post reads.

Crytek Developing Social Network For Gamers With OnLive-like Streaming

Thursday, 2nd February 2012
Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: browser, Crytek, Facebook, Gameloft Live!, gamers, GFACE, onlive, social network, streaming, Xbox Live

There are a few sites that claim to be a Facebook dedicated to gamers, but nothing like a new service called “GFACE” being developed with help from Crysis developers Crytek. From screenshots posted by Kotaku, the GFACE is not only the ultimate Facebook/Google+ for gamers, it’s also an innovative online game streaming platform that scales from mobile devices to traditional PCs.

GFACE, like Facebook and most other social networks, will run your browser. Some of the innovative features highlighted in Kotaku’s report: integrated video chat, and drag-and-drop friend invites, and the ability to access your friends list to share content like Xbox Live– such as watching a movie together. Continue reading “Crytek Developing Social Network For Gamers With OnLive-like Streaming” »

CES 2012 Wish List: The Best Gadgets From CES You Need To Have

Thursday, 12th January 2012
Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming, Technology
Tags: 2012, Atlona LinkCast, ces, infrared, iNotebook, iRig Mix, lg, onlive, Project Fiona, Wikipad, wireless HDMI

Just about every tech company you’ve heard of (apart from Apple) is announcing their latest products and plans for the upcoming year at CES 2012 in Las Vegas.

It’s easy to want to take home everything you lay your eyes on at the show, but a few products were definitely able to make our wish list for when they eventually get released in the coming months.

Below you’ll find an infrared keyboard built into an iPhone case, a TV that comes preloaded with OnLive, a mixer for iOS devices, a wireless HDMI solution, and dedicated gaming tablets that could one day replace PC rigs Continue reading “CES 2012 Wish List: The Best Gadgets From CES You Need To Have” »

OnLive Brings Super Laggy Console Games to iPhone, iPad, and Android

Thursday, 8th December 2011
Posted in Apple, Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: android, cloud gaming, console, droid, iOS, ipad, iTunes, mobile gaming, onlive

OnLive has just dropped a press release announcing new mobile apps for Android, iPhone, and iPad that will effectively bring their “console-class” cloud gaming experience to over 500 million mobile devices in the UK and US.

You’re probably already familiar with OnLive’s game streaming service previously only available to Macs, PCs, or a dedicated OnLive console.

However, while most of the 200 games in their library will be playable on mobile devices via a wireless controller, 25 of those titles have also been ported with touchscreen controls. It isn’t just the smaller titles Continue reading “OnLive Brings Super Laggy Console Games to iPhone, iPad, and Android” »

Awesome! Free OnLive boxes for PAX guests!

Friday, 26th August 2011
Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: away, booth, know, onlive, pax, playertag, you're

Are you going to PAX this weekend? If so, head over to the OnLive booth and sign up for a playertag and BOOM! Free OnLive box! The company announced yesterday that they’d be doing this promo for PAX attendees. All you have to do is show up at the booth and tell them your Playertag. SIMPLE!

No wonder they don’t seem to be sweating very much over Gamestop’s bullshit decision–when you’re giving away a bunch of your systems away, you know your business is in a good position. Let us know if you’re getting in on this deal, and what games you’ll be playing on the service!

<via Joystiq, Onlive>

Gamestop to launch OnLive Competitor “Spawn”

Saturday, 20th August 2011
Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming, Technology
Tags: cloud gaming, competition, gamestop, onlive, Penny Arcade, spawn

courtesy of www.penny-arcade.com

Looks like Gamestop’s smelling the dying days of its abilities as a retail store. The company’s announced its newest spin-off cloud gaming service that intends to compete with streaming services like OnLive: “Spawn.” Here’s the catch for “Spawn” though–unlike OnLive, which is currently restricted to PC gaming titles (That can admittedly be played on more than PCs)–”Spawn” plans to stream Xbox games, PS3 games, AND PC games. Continue reading “Gamestop to launch OnLive Competitor “Spawn”” »

OnLive on Facebook: Yo dawg, we heard like to have games in your…social networks…

Friday, 8th July 2011
Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: cloud gaming, culture, Facebook, gaming, onlive, tech

Alright, so Xzibit wouldn’t be proud of my failed attempt up there. Still, check this out. Onlive has just secured a partnership with Facebook to bring their content to the Facebook platform. Meaning that instead of using Onlive on your PC to play games–you’d….be able to use your Facebook? Huh?

Where you GAME?

Wait, back it up, there’s some sense in this. You still need some special Continue reading “OnLive on Facebook: Yo dawg, we heard like to have games in your…social networks…” »

OnLive CEO solves everything. World Peace Now Declared

Wednesday, 29th June 2011
Posted in Blog Archive
Tags: cloud gaming, onlive

Significantly MORE exciting!

Eh, or not. Close enough though. We talked about OnLive a couple of days ago, and while some of you seemed a bit skeptical, here’s reason for you guys to sit up and take notice. Their CEO, Steve Perlman (who also founded Rearden Companies, of which OnLive has spun out of ), gave a presentation at Columbia recently where he announced that his company basically broke Shannon’s Law, possibly sound the death toll for dropped calls, slow wireless in population-congested aeras, and other limitations on wireless communication.

Okay, there’s a catch—they didn’t break Shannon’s Law, (which states there’s essentially a finite speed at which wireless radio can travel.) They essentially found a way around it. Since I’m not exactly a wireless engineer, I can’t point out the details, but maybe you can Continue reading “OnLive CEO solves everything. World Peace Now Declared” »

GAMING – More News from the Future: OnLive Coming to 360 and PS3?

Tuesday, 28th June 2011
Posted in Blog Archive
Tags: cloud gaming, consoles, onlive

By R. Bryant Francis

Oh hell yes! OnLive’s Joe Benteley today, while speaking with Computerandvideogames.com confirmed that they’re in talks to get OnLive on the PS3 and Xbox 360. While nothing’s official yet, this could open up a whole new world of gaming, and a new way to think about who owns the game, and where you can play the game.

For those not in the know, OnLive is a video-game streaming service that you can access with your P.C or Tablet computer right now. It’s a subscription service, so it ain’t free, but it means your computer from 2001, so long as it has a high-speed internet connection and can basically play a Youtube video, can play high-powered games like Borderlands or Crysis.

The system works by streaming the video of your play session to your computer, so the actual computing for the game is being handled by a computer somewhere far, far away. Instead of putting a CD in your computer (which, hell, thanks to Valve, I haven’t done in ages Continue reading “GAMING – More News from the Future: OnLive Coming to 360 and PS3?” »