Hold on to your preorder money ..Onlive hits the UK on 22/09/11

Around this time of year we sit down to conduct complex fiscal calculations that would send the average Millionaire Row rosy cheeked Chancellor of the Exchequer sailing off into the sunset on the nearest Russian( Indian /Chinese)  Oligarchs super yacht . Why ? How? Who? What?  For this is the time we work out how we afford all those great games releases just around the corner - from collectors working out if Assassins Creed Animus Edition will be the most collectible game since the Brotherhood Codex Edition , to the the cascade of great releases that you will play sell and use to fund your next play sell ...

To the horror of the bargains around the corner from 2 upcoming Steam Sales , iOS and Android sales , and if you are really niche super cheap 3DS and PSP games .. not forgetting the major console releases.

But hold onto your money .... for onlive lets you instantly  socially play AAA PC games with a joy pad on literally any device with a fast broadband connection from your tv to to i7 powered tablets , or dual screen libretto tablets , or any flavour of mac and soon iPad and Android tablets!  And is set to launch in the UK on September 22nd  . Does it work ? Heck yeah it works and is going to change the way you game - and also means when your family kick you off the tv you can continue your game on a netbook , or on a tablet on the way to work - hardware is now irrelevant and any of your devices can be used to game , onlive will be independent this year but soon very soon thegameveda predicts one of the big boys Apple , Google or Microsoft will buy it out ,  now if Sony had any sense they would take the money they get from the insurance on a recently burnt down warehouse and buy out Onlive ....

If you need to see it working check out thegameveda playing with Onlive ( for almost a year now ) : and once again yes it works and is far more reliable than Gaikai . The other thing to note is as more and more games are added to the onlive play pack bundle we are going to move to a point where we pay a subscription for our games - every month just like your parents do for your cable or iphone ... ( I wish) ...

In the future though I see the likes of torrents disappearing and being replaced altogether by pirates streaming content - instant piracy is going to be lot harder to tackle than torrent led activities - At that point maybe all games will be free anyway as our enlightened forbears will have decreed games so beneficial to mankind that they will be available to pacify ..errh entertain future feral youth  - the age of the download looks positively Neanderthal and all the hip cloud happy  Homo Sapiens are streaming their games . So come 22nd September ... are you in?

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