OnLive Layoff Rumors; Indie Weekend Giveaways

Mashable has rumors layoffs at OnLive amid a retraction of their original report that the cloud gaming service was shutting down today following a tweet by InExile's Brian Fargo to that effect (thanks nin). The story currently suggests the entire staff has been let go, though some may be rehired for the company's next phase. Mashable's official statement from OnLive on this is: "no comment on the news other than to say, the OnLive service is not shutting down." Kotaku notes that the OnLive Blog has word on a free indie game giveaway, to the extent you can own a game streamed from the cloud, saying they are offering SpaceChem and Space Pirates and Zombies (S.P.A.Z.) for free. Update: Gamasutra now says they can confirm that the entire OnLive staff was fired today.
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nin wrote on Aug 17, 2012, 18:33:
Between this an gaikai being sold to sony, this experiment seems to have largely failed...
Dave Perry with the 380 million dollars he got from Sony would definitely disagree with you.

These cloud gaming ventures like OnLive weren't really created to become successful businesses on their own. They were founded to get some big fish like Microsoft or Apple to buy them out. Gaikai definitely succeeded. Only OnLive failed (so far). For the right price some big fish will snap up OnLive's technology and patents. And just like with Quicktime that is what Steve Perlman really wants.
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