Electronic Component News   OnLive game streaming service to
start in June Wed, 03/10/2010 - 9:30am BARBARA ORTUTAY - AP
Technology Writer - Associated Press   OnLive, unveiled a year
ago with much fanfare, embraces "cloud computing," in which
software runs on a computer elsewhere, not on the player's own
PC or game console.  That means players can buy or rent high-end
games such as "Mass Effect 2" with even older, less powerful
computers and Macs and without owning such consoles as the Xbox
360 or the PlayStation 3.  Right now, players purchase discs to
pop into such consoles. And increasingly, many game publishers
are selling additional content, such as extra episodes for
popular games, as Internet downloads. Services such as
Direct2Drive, meanwhile, sell downloads of full games to PCs,
though gamers need powerful, high-end machines.  Console makers
have generally been skeptical about OnLive's threat to their
business. But if it works, the company's foray into streaming
could be another force nudging the in