Homefront multiplayer added to OnLive PlayPack

@MrPistachio sooo what do you think of Onlive now?

@MrPistachio *tells your neighbor*

@MrPistachio Yeah, it was pretty damn cool to play Just Cause 2 on my ultraportable laptop, despite having it on my gaming PC. Too bad fast internet can be hard to come by, especially in the U.S. Playing an hour of the game took up at least 600mb of bandwidth.

@MrPistachio

Generally you finish your thought out post saying you liked it or you hated it after you say "At first.."

I need closure. ._.

@ComedyInK Good question...

@nerdydesi1 No, it's only OnLive-to-OnLive. This decision was mainly made to avoid hackers and unfair advantages in terms of that kind of stuff.

The good news is, OnLive is in talks with Microsoft and Sony to bring cross-multiplayer (among other services) to their consoles. According to OnLive, the tech allows them to do this, the only holdup will be the other console makers.

In other cross-platform news, OnLive is also in ongoing talks with Steam and seemed to have formed a good relationship with Steam's owners are Valve. So while console cross-platform gaming with Xbox and Playstation may or may not ever happen, there is very good likelihood that cross-platform with Steam may actually come to pass in the near future.

Not that any of this makes the current multiplayer situation better, however, they are still things worth keeping an eye out for.

@PointlessPuppies

Like Netflix, the first month of PlayPack is 100% free. Try it, and if you don't like it, cancel it.

In the meantime, the rest of the service is 100% free to access, and you only pay for the games you want to purchase (which are usually on sale anyway).

Works on Mac, PC, laptops and netbooks - even very low end and outdated devices. So there is no hardware investment to make, if you do not want to.

Works perfectly with the Xbox 360 controller, if you want to use a game controller on your PC/Mac, laptop or netbook.

100% compatibility coming soon with all iOS (iPad, iPhone) and Android (tablets and phones) devices. In which you will be able to either play the games directly on the mobile device via touch screen, play the games directly on the mobile device via OnLive's universal game controller, or use the mobile device to control the game on your HDTV, if your mobile device supports video out options to your HDTV.

The service utilizes cloud game saves, so you can start a game (say for example, Dead Island, which is launching day and date with consoles and PC), on your home computer, save your game, resume playing the game from the same spot on your mobile phone or tablet while on your commute to work, save it again when you get to work, and on your lunch break or when the office is slow (and the boss isn't watching), start playing the same game once again on the office computer. At the end of the day, play the game some more on the commute home, and once you are home continue to play on your home PC/Mac. All seamlessly, all on the same game save.

And after all that goodness, if you really find yourself liking OnLive, you can invest in one of the MicroConsoles (either $100 each, or usually bundled for free with a game pre-order) which are coming to retail soon, so you can use your OnLive directly on your HDTV, or hold out and buy one of the 25 million HDTVs or 50 million blu-ray players that are expected to ship this fall, with OnLive already built right into them.

@ttank
I know dude, changing game discs is so hard! I get sick and tired of it cause after you play a game for a couple hours you have to get up press eject, take the disc out, open up the case and put the game in it, get the desired game, open the case up, get the disc out and close the case, put the disc in the disc tray and press the button, all while standing
on your feet. I hope this helped anyone out who also has trouble changing game discs.

Yep, whether you rent a game, buy a game, or simply just demo a game, your games are always saved to the cloud with OnLive - and the save is permanently associated with your account. So start a game today, play it a couple of days, put it down, go outside and play in traffic, get run over, go into a coma for two years, wake up and play the same game, and as long as you use the same account, the game save will still be there and you can pick up where you left off . . . assuming that you still have the motor control to play videogames after getting mangled under a moving vehicle, and two years in a coma. But that was implied.

@Tachyonic Cargo

thanks. And I'll remember to always look both ways....