Peoww News

Spooky online game service, OnLive, launched today in the UK. The service is a cloud gaming platform that allows you to play games on your PC, Mac or the OnLive micro console without you having to install them. That’s right: they just fucking turn up. It’s quite remarkable starting up a game that you haven’t installed and it loading instantly. Also, thanks to the cross-platform cloudiness of the whole thing, your in-game progress is always saved so you can bug out whenever you want and resume play later on whatever device is handy.

We tried out Borderlands and Red Faction: Armageddon and both performed very well on our 50mb connection. Input lag was barely noticeable and graphically both games looked pretty decent. However, (let’s drop the royal ‘we’ for a second) it did make me feel a bit ‘odd’ afterwards, an odd mix of eye-strain and motion sickness (similar to when I tried out a 3DS), but that could just be me.

Anyway, OnLive are celebrating the launch of the service by giving you your first game for a quid which sounds fair enough to us but you can download thirty minute trials of the games on there so you’ve not got anything to lose. Give it a go.  Rich