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OnLive has seen a UK userbase of “millions,” CEO Steve Perlman has said.

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As OnLive launches in the UK today, CEO Steve Perlman has given a dev session of the cloud service here at Eurogamer Expo in London.

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After 15 months of active service in the US, OnLive will make cloud gaming a reality in the UK tomorrow. Steve Hill talks to OnLive founder and futuregazer Steve Perlman in London.

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Despite the GameStop ruckus, Square Enix and OnLive’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution deal is already having a positive effect for the cloud gaming service.

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OnLive’s unique feedback and metrics capacities are drawing publishers in, founder and president Steve Perlman has said.

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Cloud gaming service OnLive has announced a partnership to integrate itself “directly into VIZIO HDTVs, the new VIA Tablet and VIA Phone and Blu-ray players in the VIA Plus ecosystem.”

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The early bird catches the small black plastic box. That makes no sense.

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BT (British Telecom) has been chosen as the exclusive partner to OnLive in the UK.

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Interested in OnLive? Grab a clean pair: there’s “big news” incoming relating to the cloud service.

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Steve Perlman, CEO of OnLive, told attendees during his session at DICE that faster broadband will lead to higher levels of piracy.

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Steve Perlman, CEO of OnLive, has updated the service’s blog explaining how it’s currently being tested.

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Richard Lemarchand, game designer for Naughty Dog, has been confirmed as a speaker at the DICE Summit which takes place February 17-19, 2010 in Las Vegas.

Manveer Heir, lead designer at Raven Software, Zynga Games chief creative officer Brian Reynolds, and Mike Yuen, Zeebo senior VP of content and services, are also confirmed.

Other speakers are Steve Perlman, founder, president and CEO of OnLive, and Matias Myllrinne, president of Remedy Entertainment.

More over on GI.biz.

OnLive. Remember that? Boss of the Cloud service, Steve Perlman, has now been confirmed for a DICE presentation in Las Vegas next February.

OnLive’s in beta at the moment, but an appearance early next year may be an indicator that we’re about to see something solid.

It might not, obviously.

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Cloud gaming service OnLive’s confirmed closure of a funding round that’s valued the company between $500-750 million, but boss Steve Perlman has hinted a final launch may not come this year.

Exact figures haven’t been disclosed, but, if the valuation is accurate, this is easily the largest games-related investment of its type in 2009.

Speaking to VentureBeat, Perlman said OnLive now has a “winter” release date, with exact timing based on progression of beta testing.

Up to this point, Perlman’s maintained a 2009 date for OnLive.

Despite the highly unsurprising news of a probably slip, Perlman remained in visionary mood.

“Over the last decade, we’ve seen an enormous upheaval in the media business as the written word, photos, music, and video have been steadily moving away from physical media to online delivery,” he said on his blog.

“One major category that still remains largely based on physical discs is fast-response interactive media — in particular, video games. And, of course, OnLive’s goal is to enable that last remaining transition.”

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OnLive boss Steve Perlman’s confirmed on his blog that the cloud gaming service has now entered closed beta.

“Beta is an AWESOME milestone for OnLive, capping many years of work. We’re really looking forward to hearing what you think,” said the exec.

Of the beta’s goals, Perlman said: “One of the key challenges that OnLive technology addresses is providing a high-quality, fast-response gaming experience over a wide range of situations: different speeds/locations/types of broadband services, a variety of different PC and Mac configurations, several kinds of input and display devices, etc.

“So, a major focus of OnLive Beta is to test as many of these different situations as we can.”

You can still sign up for the beta, if you haven’t done so already. Bear in mind it’s US-only.

OnLive boss Steve Perlman has told Joystiq that people had “damn well better be skeptical” about the Cloud-gaming service, but has insisted in a lengthy interview that the concept works.

“They damn well better be skeptical. When I set out to build this thing, we looked at it and said, ‘Look, in theory it’s possible to do, but in practice we just didn’t know if it could actually be done,’” he said.

Perlman went on to talk about the process behind OnLive’s development, claiming he knew people would question the service when it was announced.

“We knew people were going to be skeptical,” he said. “And they should be, you know? But they would go and say, hmm, we’ve got nine of the top publishers behind this thing; do we really think these guys are gonna take their top titles, commit them for release the same retail window as you know, the titles when they come out for the consoles, and they’re gonna let us show games on the floor here, which are actually just being released the day that the OnLive booth opens, you know?

“The only reason they’re going to do that is, obviously, they’ve gone through tons and tons of testing as well.”

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