OnLive opens wide its 250-game PlayPack vault tomorrow, for free

Cloud gaming service OnLive said that the company will throw open its PlayPack vault in support of the Extra Life charity for 24 hours beginning Thursday, allowing gamers to play more than 250 games on the service for free. Although the effort clearly promotes OnLive's own services, the company is also raising money for Extra Life, a gaming marathon that helps raise money for the Children's Miracle Network of 170 hospitals across America. The PlayPack is free, but those that raise money for Extra Life will also receive prizes that scale up according to the amount of money donated or raised. Basically, OnLive sells itself as a way to play graphically intensive games without paying hundreds of dollars for the latest hardware. OnLive offers two main subscriptions. CloudPlay, for $7.95 per month, allows gamers who buy a supported game via Valve Software's Steam service, to play the game using OnLive's network of dedicated game servers. A second service, PlayPack, lets gamers play an archive of more than 250 older games that include Saints' Row: The Third and the first two games in the Batman Arkham series, for $9.95 per month. OnLive also quietly bundled the two into an OnLive Service Bundle for $12.95 per month about two weeks ago. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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