In the interest of amplifying the social virality of OnLive’s cloud gaming service, the Palo Alto-based company has added automatic recording of game sessions, achievements, and sharing capabilities to the service’s feature set.
OnLive has always offered user-activated Brag Clip recording, where you can share as a video snippet a selection of gameplay through OnLive with friends. Now, OnLive is making it automatic every time a user plays a game and reaches a key game milestone, so the best moments can be shared with friends without a user having to remember to activate the recording.
OnLive has also integrated a friend-finding service through Gmail-based OnLive Friend Finder, which lets a user find friends on their Gmail contact lists and also refer the service to friends on their Gmail lists. It’s a significant foray into social networking territory, and it will almost certainly not be the last. OnLive will also be notifying users through email about every connection made between his or her friends on the service, whether it’s friend requests, chat messages, or video sharing.
When users log into the OnLive service, they will discover that their personal stats are tracked for each game on the list, including total play time, last time played, and achievements earned.
OnLive’s Engineering VP Joe Bentley added in his post on the company’s blog that “social gaming has always been inherent to OnLive. But when you look at the potential, you’ll see we’ve only just scratched the surface of what it can — and will — soon become.”
[Source: VentureBeat]
