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Microsoft Courts Ex-OnLive Employees
As the gaming industry continues to cope with the fallout from OnLive’s sudden implosion and resurrection from last week, Microsoft is looking to see if they can offer up some employment to some of the people who were laid off amid the chaos.
It was reported that when OnLive filed for assignment for the benefit of creditors, only about half of their staff were offered positions within the new iteration of the company, leaving the other half more or less out in the cold. According to a post on GamesIndustry today, Microsoft is reaching out to former OnLive employees about coming aboard:
“We are eager to speak to individuals and teams affected by the OnLive transition. With the stunning success of Xbox/Kinect and the accelerated growth of this business, we are looking to add key players who want to make a real impact in creating groundbreaking new products and services.”
Could this be Microsoft bringing in staffers with OnLive experience for a new cloud-gaming project? After all, Sony purchased OnLive’s most direct competitor in the cloud-gaming business, Gaikai, shortly after E3 in July.
In all likelihood, Microsoft just knows a good group of potential employees when they see one. But considering the way trends in gaming tend to follow such similar trajectories—motion based controls, touch-screen aided gameplay—I wouldn’t be too terribly surprised to discover that Microsoft’s got a cloud-gaming rival to Sony in the works as well.
Who knows? If nothing else, this could wind up being a good resolution to so many people who were screwed over by OnLive. One thing’s for sure: Microsoft isn’t going anywhere for a long, long time.
Via GamesIndustry
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I have a bad feeling about this
I have a good feeling about this. maybe the revenue will be enough to weather Microsoft through the storm that will be windows 8 and allow them to survive until the next year, when they will come back and defeat the unstoppable force that is Apple.
Microsoft taking ex-employees of the competition …. this will be interesting and also I agree with powerdive54, Sony will lose … something with this I just know it ! Microsoft is planing something treed carefully …. there is a spy among us /|\ Oh and also windows 8 can suck my b**** I’m sticking with 7 …. oh XP forgive me Vista he tricked me …. forgive meeee …..
I assume none of you have actually tried Windows 8 (at least for an extended period of time, to get used to the new features), and are just basing your distaste off of what others have said and what you have read, not off of any personal experience.
But on topic, this is definitely an interesting move by Microsoft. I bet most people didn’t see this coming. I wonder what they plan to do with the OnLive team’s knowledge, as I doubt they would hire them and then move them into some other field to work.
Windows should take break about, there many service, it’s getting very annoying
@Overlord sony isn’t going to lose sony has the better long term plans when most of microsoft are full of incompetent owner and staff, they are mainly riding off the success of Windows but for how long not for much longer that is for sure with more and more competitors coming out, after all this stuff sony has went through they are doing pretty damn well they have already been going on for almost 4 generations now and will keep it up for another 10 o bet