The OnLive streaming PC gaming service is in a closed beta test at the moment and we assume anyone who is accepted into the beta has to abide by a non-disclosure agreement. However, it looks like the author of an OnLive beta article at PC Percepective got around that issue ("a friend of a friend of a friend passed to me their login information"). We don't think that the OnLive company execs will be pleased about that.

In any case, the article goes over the author's experience with the beta, which he admits may be colored by the fact that his location may not be optimal for testing the technology. As we expected, the results are mixed. Streaming slower paced games on your PC like Burnout Paradise and H.A.W.X. seem to work decently with some slight graphics problems. However, shooters like Unreal Tournament 3 had both major image and latency issues running on the beta system. In addition, the current beta requires you to play games with a hard wired connection to the net and there's just one resolution that's officially supported for gameplay.

Of course all of this info comes from a system that's still in closed beta, so improvements are bound to be made before OnLive officially goes live. We don't think that will likely happen for a while, but in the meantime, you can check out some OnLive video from the beta after the jump.

[Via Engadget]