Onlive: real games running in the cloud

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Although it was not released yet (it is supposed to be available in the winter), Onlive created a lot of buzz on the gaming community by announcing a service where you can run sophisticated games without needing the computing power on your machine, since the processing is done on their servers. All you need is a good broadband connection.

The service will be compatible with Mac and PCs, and there will also be a simple console available if you want to play in your TV. No word on pricing yet, but some say it will probably be a montly fee.

This is a great milestone for the industry and a big step towards consolidating the role of cloud computing. Hopefully ISPs will be reasonable in their decisions around bandwidth caps, enabling other services like Onlive to be viable in the near future.

Check their website here.