WOW! I think I’ve mentioned this on McBlog before, but now I’ve tried gaming service OnLive, and WOW, wowzers, hello. A long time ago I told everyone about this cool idea of rendering video games remotely and piping the video back to the user. Well the time is here! I tried this out last night, on my macbook pro. Normally, if I want to play a game, I have to find a mac compatible game, decide if I like it, look at the video requirements, then never buy it b/c my mac wouldn’t play it very well anyway.
Last night I sat down, logged into OnLive, clicked Batman Arkham, and watched as 3D rendered gameplay flowed into my computer. My jaw dropped. First I didn’t have to worry about if the game was PC or Mac, I didn’t have to worry about if my hardware would run it very well, and I didn’t really think about anything except which button threw my batarang.
I could’ve picked from any game that was on the OnLive game list and play for free for 10 minutes. After that I’d need to pay to keep playing. They also just announced for $9.99 a month you can play all their games online as much as you want. Like Netflix for video games. This is amazing people! I mean as revolutionary as Google was for search. If I get the chance, I’d be investing in OnLive, b/c they will either be purchased by Microsoft or other game makers will be doing the same thing soon, it really was THAT good. They also have a little itty bitty box that you can buy to hook up to your tv if you prefer playing on a tv screen. A good internet connection is required. Check it out for free if you want.