I read that recently OnLive ditched its monthly service fee and now only charges when you actually purchase a game. So, I signed up for the site to see what it was about. It's pretty wild, playing games off of remote servers. I tried a few minutes of Batman: Arkham Asylum to compare it to my PS3 version. It looks just as nice. It was a touch laggy, but to be fair, I was playing via my mediocre wifi connection, which OnLive warned me was not quite fast enough.

Here's the thing that I find pretty awesome about this whole OnLive setup: You get to try 30-minute demos of all the games they have, for free, without even having to download them first! You're up and running demos almost right away, which speeds up the process of helping you decide which games are actually worth buying.

Has anyone else tried OnLive? Any thoughts? Even if you're not even dreaming of paying for OnLive games, you might want to try out a few free, ready-to-play, 30-minute demos.