The biggest news story (so far) for GDC 2009 is the announcement of the OnLive online gaming service. In case you didn't see our story on Tuesday, basically it claims it will use Internet compression and distant servers to allow PC and Mac gamers to play even high-graphic PC games on low-end systems with no downloading needed. Now the company has launched its official web site which offers up even more info about the service.

OnLive plans to launch a beta test sometime this summer and the site already has a page where people can sign up to hopefully be selected for that test. You of course need to have a broadband connected PC or Mac in order to be selected but there's no actual hardware requirements needed. The service is currently slated to officially launch in winter 2009.