Last week at the 2009 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, a revolution of sorts was unveiled.
What has been widely hyped as a kind of "gaming Bluetooth solution" was presented to media and industry pundits after a mere seven years of development at Rearden, the media and technology incubator behind MOVA, Ice Blink Studios and Moxi.
OnLive is an on-demand video game platform that has the goal of delivering the latest and most advanced games instantly on any TV via a PC or Mac. This may seem fairly uninspired; millions of computers invariably manage this on a daily basis, however things become a little more complicated when you realise that the game mechanics - from computation to video rendering - is all done server-side and transmitted to your home through a broadband connection.
