OnLive went live in the UK, yesterday, and while it had some problems with overloading the server on launch day, the £ 69 cloud-based console game OnLive Game System was well received.

But those who downloaded the iPad or Android app OnLive viewer, the day may be dismayed that only one other player to watch one of over 140 titles, or be with your account. You can not play games now at this special version of the platform.

It’s about to change, with the introduction of OnLive Universal Wireless Controller and OnLive Player app. Debuted at E3 changed, the joypad and new iPad and Android application to owners of games compressed streaming allows OnLive as skillfully as their PC to play Mac and console game enthusiasts.

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Exclusively for Pocket-lint, said John Spinale, OnLive’s vice president of Games and Media why it is so important for the service:
“We’re in the process of revving our controller, which will be coming out this Fall, to work with a low latency Bluetooth protocol so that it’ll work on the tablets,” he said.

Hence the need for the controller.

“This is going to blow people’s minds,” he adds, tantalisingly. “Using a dual analogue stick to play high-end console games on a tablet.

“As a gamer, it makes me happy that I can take my tablet and my controller, stick them in my bag, and take all my games with me.

“We’ve done a lot of heavy lifting to get to this point right now. But the slogging part’s done, and now this is the fun part.”

“It’s the one thing that we thought that was missing; a console gaming experience on a tablet. You can play games like Deus Ex: Human Revolution with touch, which is sort of mind bending. But you realise that some of those games are great with touch, and some of them don’t do particular well.”

And the Universal Wireless Controller works well with the OnLive Game System, a laptop, PC, Mac or even a connected TV work.

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