BT has secured rights to bundle game streaming system ‘OnLive’ with its broadband packages. The company has bought a small 2.9% stake in OnLive and UK launch plans will be unveiled later this year – note that this is the launch plans, not the launch itself.
Steve Perlman, CEO of OnLive said:
“The UK market is extremely important to OnLive and our videogame publishing partners as we expand into Europe. We view BT as the ideal UK partner. As gamers are moving increasingly to online game distribution, OnLive delivers video games as a pure form of online media, playable instantly on almost any video-capable device attached to the internet.
“The implications are nothing short of transformative to video games and in time, all interactive media. OnLive is delighted to be pioneering this revolutionary technology in the UK together with BT”.
Source: MCV.