The gaming arena just received a boost with the launch of the OnLive app that lets mobile phone and tablet owners enjoy a console-class game experience. It gives avid gamers an opportunity to play various popular titles which were previously only capable of functioning with consoles and computers, on their mobile devices.
A wide range of the latest and most played console titles have specially been optimized for touchscreen controls on tablets and handsets. These include Rockstar Games L.A. Noire, Lego Batman: The Videogame, Lego Harry Potter, Defense Grid Gold, Batman: Arkham City, Assassin’s Creed: Revelations and Lord of the Rings: War in the North, among many others. Users can employ this application with more than 500 million mobile devices over Wi-Fi in the U.S. and UK.
Steve Perlman, OnLive Founder and CEO, stated, “Today marks a major milestone: OnLive is now delivering the latest, console-class, top-tier games—literally to your fingertips—on tablets and phones for instant, on-demand play anywhere, anytime. Through the free OnLive app, tablet and smartphone gamers can play top console and PC titles like Assassins Creed: Revelations and L.A. Noire—one of the most highly acclaimed, graphically sophisticated games to date—with exclusive OnLive Cloud Touch controls or with the new mobile-compatible Universal OnLive Wireless Controller. Tablets and smartphones, the fastest-growing consumer product categories in history, are now capable of running the hottest, highest-end games. Gaming and mobile devices will never be the same.”
This newly released application uses the cloud to quickly deliver numerous games on demand over the internet. It claims to offer the same gaming quality on tablets and mobile phones as experienced on PC’s, Macs and TVs.
The OnLive app can now be downloaded for free from the Android Market and will soon arrive on other mobile platforms as well. The Universal OnLive wireless controller is set to be available online in the US and UK tomorrow at onlive.com/store and onlive.co.uk/store for a price of $49.99.