OnLive is about to broaden its capabilities to serve its games wirelessly later this month. OnLive’s Steve Perlman has announced at onlive.com that a Wi-Fi Beta of OnLive will launch beginning mid-September. All OnLive members will be able to test the performance of the streaming game service. Currently, users are required to plug-in to a wired internet connection to ensure gameplay runs without any lag. OnLive takes care of the graphical power and storage of data on their end and delivers a seamless single-player or multiplayer gameplay experience, so it’s quite a feat to be able to deliver this wirelessly.
OnLive also officially started to support netbooks and connection speeds as low as 3 Mbps (although 5Mbps is recommended), expanding its reach and allowing hardware to run processor intensive games that wouldn’t be possible in any other way. There will be a demonstration this weekend of OnLive’s wireless play and a showing of OnLive’s MicroConsoles (coming soon) at PAX Prime (booth 3446). Check out OnLive’s PAX activities and get more information here.
For more details on the OnLive service, including Labor Day 50% off deals and the games that are offered for PC and Mac users, visit www.onlive.com.
