The first tech media darling has already blasted its way through the clutter at the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco — OnLive, the new company to come from longtime serial tech entrepreneur Steve Perlman. Phrases like “game changer” are being tossed about to describe OnLive’s technology, which essentially creates the new category of cloud gaming for play on computers and TVs. A new video compression system developed by OnLive means the company’s servers can host all the gaming technology like rendering and storage. All the gamer would have to do is log on and start playing.
