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Speaking to the BBC, Mr Spielberg said he had always stated that "the main barrier stopping people getting into video games was the complexity of a games controller," and that Natal was "a whole new world". "It's like the square screen we saw all of our movies on in the early 1950s. Then The Robe came out in Cinemascope.
OnLive , a Palo Alto, CA-based startup wants to do away with gaming consoles, game resellers, and the need to buy any more expensive graphics chips. Today the company announced a service that lets any computer run the sorts of graphics-intensive video games traditionally reserved for high-end gaming systems. Games can also be played on a TV using a small device offered by the company that connects a television to a broadband Internet connection. The idea is to separate games from consoles or desktop computers, says Steve Perlman , founder and CEO of OnLive, a spinout of a Silicon Valley-based incubator called Rearden .
FreeCol is a turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization , and similar to Civilization. The objective of the game is to create an independent nation. You start with only a few colonists defying the stormy seas in their search for new land. Will you guide them on the Colonization of a New World ?