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OnLive announced today that Google will be integrating the OnLive cloud gaming service as a standard feature of the Google TV platform on all devices from all manufacturers.
OnLive on Google TV offers users instant on-demand gameplay from a library of “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.
“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.”
OnLive Desktop, delivering a full-featured 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.
For OnLive to work it needs to be readily available in everyday consumer electronic devices, and Google TV could be such a device.
