Get Some Free Gaming on OnLive This Halloweekend
Game on the cloud for free. Play Amnesia: The Dark Descent, F.E.A.R 3, Metro 2033, and Orcs Must Die.
OnLive has taken four games and making them free to play through All Hallows Eve. From now through Monday, October 31st at Midnight, PDT, games Amnesia: The Dark Descent, F.E.A.R 3, Metro 2033, and Orcs Must Die will all be absolutely free to play on OnLive, both in the U.S. and the UK. In addition, as a special bonus, if you Like OnLive on Facebook you can play a fifth mystery game which will be announced on Halloween!
"There’s a little something for everyone during OnLive’s Free-Play Halloweekend and the best part is we’re giving everyone free access to four terrific games all weekend long," said Matt Jensen, OnLive Community Manager. "Whether it’s horror, FPS, multiplayer or action that you’re looking for, play for free on us, and make sure you ‘Like’ us on Facebook because we’re making a fifth game available on Halloween that will be free to play all day and night."
If you'd prefer to game locally instead, using your own CPU and GPU power, check out the Halloween Steam sale.

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My 6790 renders metro 2033 on high DX11 at the same frame rate as onlive was rendering it on dx9 low. That is pretty poor performance for a company touting their product as the next best thing comming down the pipe.
Additionally; you have ZERO control over the grapics, those options are removed from the game's options menu. WTF.
Even Orcs must die was rendering low res. And stuttered a little.
And I have a good connection 8down/1up
Like im THAT dumb to not see what they are trying to do....
You don't like that they are trying to increase business? Don't complain about things that are free. If you don't like it don't use it.
Aww, someone has a bad internet connection.
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My 6790 renders metro 2033 on high DX11 at the same frame rate as onlive was rendering it on dx9 low. That is pretty poor performance for a company touting their product as the next best thing comming down the pipe.
Additionally; you have ZERO control over the grapics, those options are removed from the game's options menu. WTF.
Even Orcs must die was rendering low res. And stuttered a little.
And I have a good connection 8down/1up
I am on Comcast internet. 20mbps down, about 5 or 6mbps up. 60-70ms pings in online games. OnLive still looks like ps2 era graphics on my computer.
It's a cool concept, considering how many things go on within 1/10th of a second, but it's not good enough yet in my opinion.
FPS games and racing games are terrible because of high latency, but 3rd person games (Orcs Must Die, Prince of Persia, Assassin's Creed, etc) are ok. And it doesn't matter if you have a 10.000 GB/s connection! If it takes 3 seconds to receive/transmit, gameplay's gonna be ugly. In the future I hope they branch out to other countries, or at least have some (closer) competition.
The fifth game is probably gonna be a zombie game like Left 4 Dead or something...
Agree and I wonder how laggy Metro 2033 will be because that game is demanding on video hardware.
now on to the comment that going to set me on the path of breaking a thumbs down record.
I AM SO SICK OF ALL THE WHINEY ASS PC GAMERS HERE AT TOM"S THAT ATTACK ANY AND EVERY THING THAT SEEMS TO THREATEN THEIR EXCUSE TO EXPULGE GOBS OF MONEY OUT OF THIER WALLETS ON COMP HARDWARE THAT THE VAST AMJORITY OF GAMERS IN GENERAL CANT AFFORD !!!
Seriosuly poepel , the PC gmaers here at tom's make pc gmaers all over look liek total dicks
"whah consoles are holding PC's back and games shoudl only cater to super rich like me whah "
"whah, This cloud gaming service sucks cos it doesn't use my 1200 dollars worth of SLI-ed Hardedware"
"whah Xbox 360 sucks cos it was built in 2005"
"whah, console kiddies are stupid whah"
give me a break already grow up yourselfs, and for gods sake SOME ONE CALL A WHAMBULANCE ! for all these bitch ass whiney PC gamers here at toms, because you guys are all making the rest of us look like asses to any one that can't afford a gaming pc
P.S. this is the last time i'm going to ever post soemthing in this regard tired of telling you guys to grow up guessing you'll never figure that part of life out
It's also a great way to try out games with the 30min trial passes. And above all, it runs on my four year old laptop that I use while traveling.
By the way if you haven't played Orcs Must Die, it is a fantastic puzzle/tower defense.