At the Wedbush financial conference in New York that took place today, Steve Perlman showed off the OnLive game service on several different platforms: 2 iPhones, a TV, and a computer.
“What is really cool is that all 4 devices had access to the full OnLive Game Service, so they could play the same games, spectate [...]

At the London Games Conference, Xbox Live EMEA boss Jerry Johnson told the audience that streaming game services like OnLive isn’t ready for mass-market in the near future.
Johnson believes that “streaming technology is something that the industry is betting on longer term… right now I don’t believe that technology can scale out against the experience [...]

OnLive has closed another round of funding on Tuesday with AT&T Media Holdings, Inc., Lauder Partners, Warner Bros., Autodesk and Maverick Capital.
“The funding is much larger than our previous rounds,” says Steve Perlman, the founder of OnLive. He went on to say that the new partners “gives us a serious jolt of rocket fuel as [...]

After a bit of a delay, OnLive is opening its beta program to gamers living in the US.
I’m very excited to say that we are now opening the OnLive Beta to outside gamers who signed up on our website. It?s not too late to sign up if you haven’t already. We are very much looking [...]

I’m sure we’re all waiting for news of the beta and the final release date. According to their PR, there will still be a beta released sometime during what’s left of the summer, but the release could be pushed back pending the results of the beta.
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It seems like some other sites/blogs were able to attend the site tests we spoke of earlier. Joystiq has OnLive impressions and photos worth checking out.
The game service was tested in a LA apartment running over a regular internet connection, which confirms our reports. The actual servers were located about 350 miles away in Santa [...]

4mm Games is a new company developed by ex-Rockstar founders Jamie King and Gary Foreman. According to GameSpy, 4mm may develop games for OnLive or Gaikai:
The company hopes to “deliver groundbreaking content with global appeal to a consumer who lives online.” This could suggest that 4mm Games may be looking at a cloud-based gaming service [...]

OnLive officially won’t be attending E3 this year. OnLive founder, Steve Perlman, provides the following reason:
…this is the main reason why OnLive won’t have a booth at E3 this year. More than anything, E3 is a retail-oriented conference, both for retail platforms and retail publishers, and OnLive is neither. You’ll hear and see plenty from [...]

Microsoft is rumored to unveil a new handheld device at E3. Called the ‘ZuneX,’ the device may feature Xbox Live Arcade, media player capabilities, and support for OnLive.
Microsoft has neither confirmed nor denied the existence of the ZuneX.
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Ken Brown from Nvidia has some positive things to say about OnLive:
Actually we think this is a good thing for the industry. Given the targeted resolution and image quality, it seems a good potential benefit for the 50% or so of the market currently stuck with sub-par integrated graphics. The server-side GPUs will want to [...]