OnLive improves game-streaming performance with new optimization options

The cloud-streaming game company offers new options to its customers.

Tangentix raises $2.1M to make game downloads faster (exclusive)

The company's compression technology could potentially address a major problem for players.

OnLive’s new chairman has ‘buyer’s elation’ as he announces engineering leader

OnLive's new owner says in a post that the cloud gaming company once again has forward momentum.

OnLive offers a free download with every cloud purchase of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

The deal shows that OnLive is still evangelizing cloud gaming.

Home invasion: G-cluster moves into U.S. living rooms with its cloud-based Game Machine

G-cluster's brings cloud gaming to your TV by plugging its small machine into your HDMI port.

The DeanBeat: The accelerated change of the game industry

Waves of change in the game business could either sweep you aside or take you to a new shore.

Analyst: GameStop store closures could hurt industry sales

GameStop, one of the world's biggest game retailers, will cut its global footprint by about 1 percent.

Console-quality gaming without the console: OnLive is live in some LG TVs

Some LG Smart TV owners can now play console-quality games without a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Kixeye opens up about racism allegations, OnLive assets sold for $4.8 million

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Streaming tech company T5 claims Sony’s Gaikai infringes on its patents

Sony's wholly owned cloud-gaming company is using a technology that the London-based T5 Labs believe it owns.

OnLive’s assets were sold for only $4.8 million

Despite $40 million in investment from big companies, OnLive was worth much less than that in the end.

The DeanBeat: A stellar week for gamers

We saw separate but wonderful visions of the game industry this week in a series of cool events.

With AMD investment, CiiNow wants to push cloud gaming beyond where OnLive could take it

Hoping to pick up where OnLive left off, CiiNow is launching cloud gaming software that will serve as the backbone for cloud services that game publishers can launch.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: More Zynga executives leave, CEO Perlman leaves OnLive, and Bethesda announces new Skyrim DLC

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

The DeanBeat: Being a tortoise isn’t so bad, but the water is choppy, EA’s top game studio boss says

Zynga was the hare. EA was the tortoise. Do we know who won the race?

OnLive’s Steve Perlman bids farewell, says other projects will ‘blow your mind’

Steve Perlman says farewell to OnLive fans and promises future projects that will "blow your mind."