The launch of the OnLive service is provided in the United States on June 17. For activation, you will need a subscription that costs $ 14.95 (U.S. dollars) a month, to which we must add the cost for the purchase or rental of games, which have not yet been officially announced.
The first 25 000 users who register will be able to use OnLive free for three months.
OnLive has reached agreements with producers Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, 2K Games, THQ, and Warner Bros, and will launch between 12 and 25 titles, including Mass Effect 2, Assassin's Creed II, Borderlands, Dragon Age Origins, Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands and Metro 2033.
According to producer latency internet connection is not a problem because the game experience will still be rewarding and exciting. To achieve OnLive are served eight years of development. The basic principle concerns the calculation of the graphics remotely and send the images already rendered on the end of the house without performing other calculations.
OnLive will be compatible with PC and Mac, in these cases just install a simple plug-in browser. It also works with a simple monitor, which is connected to a box that society defines MicroConsole. This serves only to receive information from the remote computer. For the correct operation of the system requires a connection to broad band of 5Mbps for 720p HD resolution and 1.5 Mbps for the 480i.
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