nytimes.com/nyregion AUDIO: TECH TALK This week: A look back at the Melissa virus that changed computing a decade ago; John Markoff on the looming threat of the Conficker worm; the tech term "clickjacking"; and streaming on-demand games.
(Free; iPhone/iPad, Android) Streaming more than 1,300 live and on-demand games from England's Premier League, the UEFA Champions League, the Europa League, the F.A. Cup, Scotland internationals, Australia's A League, the Concacaf Champions League and the Concacaf Gold Cup.
The console will run Onlive's on-demand games service right from the start.
The network will run 24 hours a day on Twitter, broadcasting live and on-demand games and events, highlights, classic games, as well as original and daily live studio programming.
Minefold, a new Y Combinator startup launching today, wants to be a more consumer-focused Amazon EC2 for the multiplayer gaming world, offering on-demand game servers for a nominal monthly fee ($5).
Phil Spencer, the Vice-President of Microsoft Game Studios, stated in September 2010 that Limbo was "our number one Summer of Arcade game by a long stretch", and further posed that Limbo represents a shift in the type of game that gamers want out of online on-demand game services; "it's becoming less about iconic [intellectual property] that people know and it's becoming more diverse".
U.S. fans can watch all postseason games on-demand in Game Pass, the NFL says.
Football fans in the US can gain online access to live and on-demand preseason games by purchasing a NFL.com Game Pass.
This service now offers both live and on-demand preseason games, for the first time, plus highlights, access to NFL games dating back to 2009, news and more.
For CBBC, aimed at six- to 12-year-olds, the challenge is more complex, going head to head with all of youngsters' myriad digital distractions, including video-on-demand, video games and social media.
