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 [...]

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 [...]

An interesting article that outlines why OnLive will fail, drawing some comparisons to the Phantom. One major issue is that OnLive’s biggest asset, the internet, may also be its biggest downfall. Another is the lack of commitment shown by their current roster of publishers. They have promised games this winter, but nothing more. Link

The usual skepticism about OnLive as well as some insightful commentary about privacy, and user-generated content or ‘mods.’ Link

It makes sense that OnLive, or any other cloud gaming service for that matter, probably won’t see much success. At least not yet. The technology behind cloud gaming is very new and far from being perfect. According Crytek’s research, OnLive won’t be very feasible until 2013. Link

Joystiq has a great interview with Steve Perlman where he talks about the skepticism with his new game service. His company, Rearden Labs, has faced this skepticism before with it’s other technologies and they turned out to successful. For him, all the criticisms about OnLive is nothing new. Link