How if you start up a video game without the disk drive? OnLive Inch., based in Palo Alto, California makes a plan to host dozens of popular computer games, from publishers like Electronic Arts and Ubisoft, on its servers. If you have high-speed internet, you could connect a PC or a Mac to a server and start playing, without having to worry about whether your computer was powerful enough to handle its high-end graphics. Cool, isn’t it?

You could also play PC game on your television through the OnLive MicroConsole, a sleek device that’s about as big as a pack of cigarettes. Zeebo Inc.’s will introduced machine at places like India, China and Eastern Europe where few people can afford a PlayStation 3. Using technology developed by San-Diego-based Qualcomm Inc, games will be distributed though cell-phone networks. Next week, Nintendo has a new console coming out, the DSi, the third generation of its DS portable.