Ambitious cloud gaming service OnLive arrives on UK shelves on Thursday and could well be the next major step in digital distribution and how we play games. That's if all goes well, anyway.

We've attempted to answer all of your burning questions in our OnLive UK FAQ, but there are some queries that are better put to the men behind the tech.

We sat down with OnLive's VP of games & media John Spinale, who walked us through some of the platform's exciting features. Look for part two of our interview later this week.

Are most games publishers on board with OnLive?

Yes. Almost all publishers and developers are on board. That's publishers and developers together, because on some level digital distribution starts to blur the line between publisher and developer. A lot of the little indie guys self-publish their own titles and obviously some of the big publicly traded publishing houses have lots and lots of developers that self-publish their own stuff.

In any case there's a large number of people on the platform right now and the vast majority of third-party games as they come out going forward will be on OnLive pretty much day and date. What's fun about that is say, Deus Ex, from the minute we were aloud to start selling it, players will sit there with their controllers and start playing at 12:01.

What's cool about that is that you don't have to wait for the download, go to the store, install it... you're just playing. We see people now desperate to start playing new releases as quickly as they can, get through the game, start showing their friends they were first, get Achievements the fastest or even get good at multiplayer so they can school their friends by the time their friend buys it and gets home the next day. We've seen so much of that behaviour it's really funny.

Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/319586/onlive-our-hardware-constantly-improves-xbox-hasnt-changed-since-2005/

Posted: Sep 20, 2011 3:11 pm