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Consoles in the crosshairs as cable gears up for cloud gaming.

OnLive is set to announce a flat-rate subscription fee for older back catalogue titles and independent games on its cloud-gaming streaming service.

Cloud gaming service OnLive has finally launched in the US, offering the first year of streamed games totally free to an initial batch of selected gamers that are first to sign up.

BT has signed the exclusive UK rights to the cloud-gaming service OnLive.

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Cloud-gaming service OnLive is set to work on your mobile phones as well as your netbooks and laptops and desktop PCs soon, according to the company's boss.

The boss of cloud gaming company OnLive has said that the service is set to launch sometime this coming winter and that the service is already valued in the region of $500-$750 million.

Intel has invested half a million US dollars in a new high-definition games-on-demand service called GameTree.tv due to launch in spring 2010.