OnLive is a gaming service which promises to deliver high quality, graphics-intensive PC games straight to your crappy netbook, allowing them to run smoothly and at high resolution. The way it's been demonstrated to me is that you're basically networked into a powerful server cluster which handles all the intensive hardware grinding, and then it spits the data back at you in what amounts to a movie file, based on your actions. It's a little complicated, but the short story is: Your crappy PC will run "Crysis" without a problem. In theory.

Every time I've seen OnLive demonstrated, it's been in a managed conference hall. Until I'm actually able to try it out on my painfully lacking work PC, I'm not fully convinced.

Well, the question of viability will be answered this June, as OnLive is finally launching after a prolonged beta. Users will be able to connect to the service and access games for a $15 per month subscription fee.

Until I try it out in legit conditions, I'm going to withhold judgment. That said, the prospect of running the world's prettiest PC games on something as powerful as my iPhone is just too good to ignore. Definitely check back in as the June date nears, as I'm sure we'll be able to mess around with the service pre-launch.