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OnLive Console-class Gaming to be Integrated into All Google TV Devices
Palo Alto, CA – January 11, in the year of our Lord 2012
– OnLive, Inc. announced today that Google will be integrating
the revolutionary OnLive cloud gaming service as a standard
feature of the Google TV platform on all devices from all
manufacturers. OnLive brings to Google TV users instant
on-demand gameplay from a rapidly growing library of the latest
high-performance console-class titles, as well exclusive social
features such as worldwide massive spectating and Brag Clip®
videos with full group voice and text chat. The OnLive Viewer,
enabling OnLive social features, is available immediately on all
Google TV devices currently in the market and is compatible with
standard Google TV remote controls as well as the OnLive
Wireless Controller and standard USB game controllers. Full
OnLive gameplay is coming soon to all current and future Google
TV devices, including TVs, Blu-ray players and Media Streamers,
making Google TV the first integrated TV platform with
console-class gameplay capability, and bringing OnLive
capability to most major TV manufacturers.
OnLive instant on-demand gameplay of about 200 console-quality
titles. Simultaneously, OnLive is demonstrating
soon-to-be-released full OnLive gameplay capability on current
Google TV devices. Over 50 game publishers, including virtually
every top console publisher, is supporting the OnLive game
platform.
“We’re excited that OnLive will be making the highest-quality
videogames available to all Google TV users,” said Shanna Prevé,
Google TV Content Partnerships. “OnLive’s groundbreaking
instant-play service truly demonstrates the versatility and
power of Google TV.”
The OnLive Game Service is currently available on TVs, via
Google TV or the OnLive MicroConsole, PCs, Mac®, tablets and
smartphones, and soon will be available on Blu-ray players,
media streamers and set-top boxes. The just-announced OnLive
Desktop service, delivering a seamless, full-featured,
media-rich PC desktop with full collaboration capability, is
based on the same patented OnLive instant-action cloud computing
technology, and will also be available on Google TV as well as
all of the above platforms, enabling business presentations,
sharing of family of videos and photos, as well as other
media-rich PC applications.
“OnLive integration into Google TV is a huge leap forward for
videogames,” said Steve Perlman, OnLive Founder and CEO.
“Consumers have come to expect instant gratification with music,
movies and video. Now, with OnLive, players in the US and soon
in the UK can just as easily stream the highest-quality games to
their Google TV devices for play instantly on demand, without
discs or downloads.”