OnLive Public Beta Program Kicks Off
OnLive’s gaming service has just opened in beta, lots of people have been patiently awaiting its release so they can give it a test drive. Today Steve Perlman, the OnLive founder and CEO announced the beta is ready to rock as we speak on the their official blog. According to OnLive’s blog, to gain entry to the public beta you must sign up on their site.
If you have been waiting I suggest you keep a sharp eye out for an e-mail with instructions on gaining entrance. For those that want to join it’s not to late to head over there, register, and take part in testing the streaming games service. If you like gaming I strongly advise to take this opportunity to sign up and get some free action.
Naturally as with any website offering this type of service you will have to provide some general information about your ISP, computer specification and of course your location. In return OnLive will organize testers into groups, most likely by IP address to keep pings or latency low as possible thus providing you with the best game play available.
If you fall into a particular test group, OnLive may request that you run a detailed performance test on your network connection and system configuration via E-mail. They may also offer you the OnLive browser plug-in for further testing.
If your not sure what OnLive is, let me bring you up to speed; OnLive is an on-demand video game service which synchronizes your computer and their servers on high end games delivered via broadband connection. Basically the service allows you to play games on low-end systems running Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Macintosh OS X systems. Should be interesting to see what kind of ping I get.
OnLive new gaming service will digitally distribute top-rated games from publishers like Electronic Arts, Take-Two, Ubisoft, Atari, and others to be played on Intel-based Mac or PC running XP or Vista, regardless of how powerful the computer.
The service will allow users to stream games via a MicroConsole which has USB, HDMI, and Ethernet ports directly to their TV. Their also going to allow gamers the use a custom wireless controller as well as VoIP headsets in conjunction with the service.
The service will be paid, but OnLive CEO Steve Perlman believes the console, controller, and subscription fee will be cheaper than the cheapest of consoles. OnLive gaming service is sheduled to be fully up and running by the end of this year. You can sign up here. Video after the break.
If you sign up, let us know how it go
