Play Crysis on your crappy laptop
No more videocard upgrades. Ever.
That’s the promise held by the upcoming service OnLive, which claims to use proprietary video compression and streaming technology to provide cloud-based, lag-free PC gaming to everyone.
The concept is simple: You connect, load a game, OnLive handles all the processing on their servers and renders the game experience back to you as latency-free, HD video stream.
The real surprise? It actually seems to work.
Reviewing technology with an occasional sprinkling of art and humour.
