I would not be surprised if Microsoft has already offered huge sums of cash to onLive and are planning to take the company over few months before onLive goes live. Could the next generation of Xbox be called Xbox onLive or maybe even the Xbox 360 with a firmware update, since the web plug-in is only 1mb. More I think about it, this seems like a great business model for Microsoft, they would be able to offer games on demand and also offer games from physical media, this will help ease gamers into the transition of digital distribution and have options for those who are not ready (no internet, no credit card, fear and so on...).

Maybe this was the plan for onLive, create innovative technology and make money on selling its intellectual properties and patents. The technology seems to prove its possible, but onLive will have to sustain a monumental infrastructure and fund a huge advertising campaign for few years until it gains momentum, and a company like Microsoft with its huge dedicated user base and unlimited funds may be better suited to move the service forward and sustainable. The founder of onLive also developed the webTV which had the same business model as onLive (cheap and accessible computing for a specific need) which was also sold to Microsoft.

Not entirely true. If you bought a game for purchase through onLive and a year later they go belly up, all you would have to do is download it via a torrent service, borrow a friend's copy etc..or even call the publisher to get a new key for your lost copy of crysis or burnout to have access to it. This would not be illegal or breaking any copy right laws since you have purchased your license to have the rights to view and play all of the materials with the game in question. There for, if you were to get a letter in the mail saying "you are a pirate and we are going to take you to court," all you have to do is print up a recipe of your onLive purchase as proof you have the right to play this game.

Sorry to hear that, my World of Warcraft account got hacked few weeks ago. I was fortunate enough to get all of my belongings back. I heard there are people running a business in Russia that hack thousands of account per week. Now I'm running COMMODO firewall 2 anti-spyware software and 2 paid anti-virus softwares. Hope everything works out for ya!

I can actually jump across platforms without falling off a 100x. Mirror's Edge is unlike any other first person game out there...expect many copycats after it's release.

I've played the PS3 and Xbox 360 demo, I have to admit the 360 version has less jagged edges.