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• OnLive: 'If we don't improve we will die'

  OnLive’s recent struggles has taught everyone at the company an awful lot. CEO Charlie Jablonski and UK boss Bruce Grove have spoken in length to Eurogamer, outlining many of the troubles the group has faced over the past year. They also look to the future, indicating things can only get brighter with a better strategy.

• OnLive functionality is still coming to Wikipad

  Despite the recent change of ownership, the Wikipad is scheduled to include support from OnLive.

• Storm cloud: the future is not here yet

  Speaking after the evaporation of OnLive last month, Robert Levitan, CEO of Pando Networks, warns that cloud gaming has another 3-5 years to wait before truly hitting its stride.

• Square-Enix calls its cloud gaming portal 'selfish', but 'obvious'

  Core Online, the cloud-based gaming portal from publisher Square-Enix was born out of a ‘selfish’ need to increase its audience.

• Sony buying Gaikai validates cloud gaming, says OnLive

  Sony’s acquisition of Gaikai has brought legitimacy to cloud gaming, OnLive’s UK GM Bruce Grove has said, and it “will help drive the idea further.”

• EA: Freemium is the future, 'humans like free stuff'

  EA believes that freemium games are the future. But don’t expect all of the company’s output to suddenly become free overnight. Full quotes after the jump.

• Rumor - Xbox 720 documents show next-gen plans

  A two-year old set of documents claiming to list what Microsoft has in store for Xbox 720 – yes, that is what it’s called in the graphs – has been plastered all over the internet.

• Spider-Man OnLive snub comment is fake, says Activision

  Activision blogger Dan Amrich has confirmed that an anti-OnLive quote being reported as coming from an Activision rep is from a fake Facebook page.

• OnLive reveals UK pricing, Service partners

  With OnLive launching properly in the UK today the company has revealed its full plans for pricing in Britain and its key partnerships with major companies in Britain that they hope will help the service to succeed.

• OnLive’s UK launch titles revealed

  As the clock struck midnight OnLive was released upon the unsuspecting masses of Great Britain, making Cloud Gaming a reality on a widespread scale for the first time in Blighty – and OnLive have a pretty impressive slate of titles on the service on day one.

• OnLive's UK launch: Perlman on the cloud revolution

  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.

• Head in the Cloud: Gaming's hardware agnostic future

  Expectation says we’re three to four years from the next major console cycle. If cloud gaming has anything to do with it, it may well be the last.

• Saturday Shorts: Sales, L.A Noire, Mario concepts, SOE triple cash

  It’s Memorial Day weekend in US and a bank holiday in the UK. Whether you are honoring those who have passed, served your country, or just using it as an excuse to eat BBQ and get sloshed, it doesn’t matter. It’s all good in our book. Let’s get you caught up on the small stuff […]

• Thursday Shorts: Army of Darkness, Orion: Prelude, Doctor Lautrec, Duke Nukem OnLive

  Tomorrow is Friday. You should be pleased. Very pleased. Have some shorts to help you celebrate the impending end of your work week.

• Friday Shorts afternoon edition: Prototype 2, SWTOR, science, Rock Band, DiRT 3 shots

  The weekend is almost here – at least in the US. You UK folks are already drinking cider, and the like.  Instead of pouting and throwing ourselves to the floor in a bitter fit, we’ll be nice as post some small news bits.

• Saturday Shorts: Humble Bundle, ARG thanks, EVE, Kinect, Xbox 360

  Happy Easter one and all, no matter how you celebrate it. Even if the rabbit has big, nasty, pointy teeth.

• OnLive adds video recording and sharing features, plus achievements

  US cloud gaming service OnLive has unveiled new features to help you be more sociable.

• Pre-order Homefront through OnLive, get a free OnLive Game System

  OnLive has announced that not only will Homefront will be instantly available to members come March 15 at midnight, if you pre-order the game through the service you will net an OnLive Game System for free – you just pay shipping and taxes – while supplies last.

• T5 claims game streaming patent, OnLive says it has "no relevance whatsoever"

  Funny thing about big, all-encompassing patents: they leave a surprising amount of wiggle room. And if T5 Labs is right, OnLive may be about to learn that the hard way.