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OnLive Duke Nukem Forever pre-order nets free MicroConsole

OnLive has announced that it will give away its MicroConsole to users that pre-order Duke Nukem Forever, which is available for a discounted price of $44.99.
Xav de Matos
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OnLive has revealed a new promotion, which offers a free OnLive MicroConsole with the pre-order of Gearbox Software's Duke Nukem Forever.

This offer is another stark reminder that Duke Nukem Forever is really, actually coming out soon. No fooling.

In order to get its MicroConsole into homes, OnLive has been aggressively giving it away to users that pre-order select titles. Currently, the company is offering a similar promotion with THQ's Red Faction: Armageddon. Purchasing the game via the service is referred to as purchasing a "Full PlayPass" for the product.

In the fine print for the offer, OnLive notes that users can receive "either a free OnLive Game System or a free Full PlayPass to any game."

Duke Nukem Forever launches on June 14 in North America and June 10 internationally for the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. Seriously.

Xav de Matos was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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  • Shacknews legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    May 11, 2011 2:45 PM

    Xav de Matos posted a new article, OnLive Duke Nukem Forever pre-order nets free MicroConsole.

    OnLive has announced that it will give away its MicroConsole to users that pre-order Duke Nukem Forever, which is available for a discounted price of $44.99.

    • lectR legacy 10 years
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      May 11, 2011 3:14 PM

      This is going to flop so hard I can almost feel the floppiness.

      • Jobos legacy 10 years
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        May 11, 2011 6:02 PM

        It doesn't help that Duke looks like the most homosexual hero ever.

    • spinx2 legacy 10 years
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      May 11, 2011 3:14 PM

      can you hook up a keyboard and mouse? remap the buttons, and play via onlive versus pc gamers in multiplayer?

      • Geoffrois legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        May 11, 2011 3:23 PM

        I believe the microconsole supports keyboard+mouse, but if it's like other OnLive games you will only be able to play online with other OnLive players.

      • derelict515 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        May 11, 2011 3:24 PM

        no, OnLive's community is a closed system

        • Schnapple legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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          May 11, 2011 3:53 PM

          Wow, that's something I missed in all of this - you can't even play against everyone else who bought the game?

          So if you bought it from GameStop, Steam, D2D, Walmart, Impulse, whatever then you can play against everyone else who bought the game but if you buy it from OnLive the only people you can play against are people who also bought it from OnLive?

          • Schnapple legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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            May 12, 2011 5:28 AM

            Oh another thing just hit me - this means that OnLive is the only place you can buy the PC version of DNF and not be able to use it on Steam, in addition to not being able to play it against everyone else who bought that version.

            What an abortion.

    • AMikaboshi legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      May 11, 2011 3:39 PM

      this onlive thing almost seems like a good deal. i wonder how many people use it tho..

      • Zips legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        May 11, 2011 4:19 PM

        Does it matter? You still play it as if you're playing on a PC. It's not a separate system for online play.

        • derelict515 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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          May 11, 2011 4:50 PM

          I believe it actually is unless something has changed recently.

          • Zips legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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            May 11, 2011 4:55 PM

            Not from what I've ever known about the system. It's still just a PC environment, same as if you used it without the console, no?

            • derelict515 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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              May 11, 2011 6:39 PM

              I don't recall the exact reasons but it's definitely online only against other OnLive users. Whether they're planning to change that I don't know.

    • Lukiopimp legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      May 12, 2011 3:41 AM

      I do not get it - why should I quintuple my latency in online games (PLUS even more for single player experience) and just rent them for a online service that only covers certain countries. Either its world wide online service accessible from everywhere or not.

      • Alice O'Connor legacy 10 years
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        May 12, 2011 3:43 AM

        Why should you? You probably shouldn't.

        Why might other people? Because it lets them play video games on just about anything, no fancy monster PCs or anything required.

    • NukemForever legacy 10 years
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      May 12, 2011 5:15 AM

      Imagine how many more preoders they would have had if they just gave out a Duke themed mouse pad

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