OnLive Player for tablets demonstrated at E3

By George Wong on 06/07/2011, filed in Home > Gaming

If you always thought that iPad and Android tablets were only good for casual gaming and not blockbuster titles, OnLive is here to prove you wrong. OnLive has just unveiled its new app for the iPad and Android tablets that is touted to outperform the latest consoles when it comes to gaming.

The app, paired up with OnLive’s Universal Wireless Controller, allows users to play pretty every game available on the service to be played on the tablet. If the feature is available on the tablet, it can even be output to an HDTV, turning the tablet into the console while gamers get to play on their huge screens. Since the performance of OnLive’s gaming service isn’t dependent on the specs of your hardware, as long as you have a good internet connection, you’ll be able to enjoy any game you want.

The OnLive Player for iPad and Android is being showcased at E3 this week, and will be available on the devices later this year. You can also head over to the official OnLive website to watch a video demonstration.

Android: Android is the mobile operating system from Google. The software was originally built by a company called Android Inc, that was purchased by Google in 2005. From its modest debuts, Android has become a powerhouse that powers not only smartphones and tablet, but a host of other less high-profile devices and gadgets. Although Android is not a community-driven project, Google does release the source code as open-source under the Apache license. You can follow Ubergizmo on Android with Google Currents.

iOS: was once upon a time called iPhone OS, or "operating system", which is the software that provides all the basic device functionality and is the interface between the hardware and applications. iOS was introduced with the iPhone on January 9 2007, and it was originally not intended to be programmable by third parties. Steve Jobs had envisioned that developers could create Web Apps that would run in the browser. This changed less than one year after when the iPhone SDK (software development kit) was introduced in October 2007. Today, hundreds of thousands of apps have been created for this platform. iPhone OS became iOS on June 2010. Interestingly, both iPhone and iOS were former trademarks of Cisco, that Apple now uses under a license.

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