The game streaming service, backed by HTC, AT&T, Belgacom, BT and Autodesk, will shut down by the end of the month, and sell its patents to Sony.

OnLive, a US-based games streaming service backed by smartphone manufacturer HTC, phone operator AT&T, entertainment company Warner Brothers, software company Autodesk and phone operators BT and Belgacom, is shutting down, Ars Technica has reported.

Founded in 2007, OnLive developed a pay-per-game and subscription streaming service that enabled users to play games remotely from a high-performance, centralised server infrastructure, but the technology suffered from slow connections and image quality issues.

The company first encountered problems in August 2012, when it restructured…

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