Crysis

OnLive has a good idea: stream games over the internet rather than make you buy a Crysis-capable PC/Mac. And when we checked out OnLive streaming Bioshock a few months back, we were impressed. Now you can check it out, too. Testable in an invite-only beta, you can register to potentially try O...

The beta for OnLive's cloud-based streaming game service is now being opened to public testers, the company announced today. OnLive aims to use a cloud of computers to render PC games off-site, streaming them to users' monitors at 60 frames per second in 720p resolution with negligible i...

By Stephen Totilo And then, during this month, June, Microsoft announced at E3 that the Xbox 360 would support a technology called Instant Streaming In 1080p. When demoed, it presented no-delay, no-disc, no-download high-quality feature-length video, something any user with a fat enough Internet con...

 NC Gameplay is handled by powerful servers connected to the user over broadband networks, meaning that even demanding games like Crysis can be played on conventional desktops or laptops, or through OnLive's own proprietary "MicroConsole. ...

 CA I tried out OnLive by playing Crysis (one of the most attractive looking first-person shooter games ever created) on an old MacBook laptop. It had all of the special effects (shimmering water, solar flares, and realistic shadows) that usually only run ...

 LA - Ryan Burns For example, using OnLive, a very basic PC or Mac can play Crysis, a game wildly hailed as having insanely high system requirements. "You can run any game that is made available on the platform by the publisher, so it's certainly very easy to take a PC ...

In a recent interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Crysis developer Crytek unfurled the results of their research into a streamed gaming service such as the recently announced OnLive. Crytek claims that, according to their research, a game-streaming service would not be viable until at le...

 CA There's a reason that you need a behemoth of a machine to run Crysis. For a service of this kind to make any money, you need to be able to support tens of thousands of users at the same time. Halo 3, for example, has 80k users online as I write this. ...

I'll grant that OnLive—the streaming game service that its makers claim will bring any game to virtually any PC or TV—borders on implausible, but you gotta beliiieevve! For the haters, here's a demo video. Plenty is discussed here, and it's worth watching all the way through if you we...

I tried my hand at some Crysis multiplayer, running in 720p, and the experience felt smooth...surprisingly smooth, in fact, considering that the graphics were being rendered on a server down in Santa Clara. Darren: I know, they tell us that the server ...

By Michael McWhertor Plans for a monthly subscription are in the works, said to be priced on par with Xbox Live fees, offering the same community and multiplayer features popularized by Microsoft's gaming service. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the unified OnLive community is the option to save and u...