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Gamestop may have Streisand effected themselves. I hadn't heard of OnLive before today but will probably try it out tonight.

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Indeed, if you haven't tried it yet then you absolutely should. I highly recommend Just Cause 2, it's a huge game and it plays perfectly. You can play any game for 30 minutes without spending a penny.

Disclaimer: I wish I was an investor.

YES. I'm actually really sad that I'm unable to invest money in the huge expansion that's happening in the software industry right now. Due to Sarbanes-Oxley, this entire industrial development is completely off-limits to regular Joe investors. It sucks to be aware of this and not be able to do anything about it.

There are many reasons why this is bad, first and foremost that this is where a lot of the action is right now and those of us with less than 10 million available to invest are stuck investing in only the rest of the economy. Which, from what I gather from the news, is pretty mismanaged in the US.

After trying out OnLive for 5 minutes even without playing, it is obvious that this is the future for most gamers.

Thirded. If I could put money in any company today, it'd be OnLive.

It's not officially available in the UK yet, but I've managed to get on anyway. Even with the huge distance involved, the latency was still low enough to play Darksiders, which looked pretty impressive on a netbook!

It works really well, just check your bandwidth. I spent most of last Saturday playing OnLive and watching Netflix and between them it chewed up 8 gigs of data. I've got a fairly generous cap though so I'm not worried.

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