Well it looks like OnLive is working well enough in beta to go for a real-live launch now. They've announced that the service will start June 17th and will include games from the big publishers that includes hits like Assassin's Creed 2, Borderlands and Mass Effect 2.

At GDC today, the CEO of OnLive said their would be somewhere from 12-25 titles at launch. No exactly a monster number there which is a little surprising given the amount of time they've been working on this. Subscribers get access for $14.95 per month.

I've already got all the gaming platforms covered so this isn't the product for me. I'm more interested in the potential for this to be used with the iPhone that we heard about a few months ago but nothing else has been said about that.

Read more: OnLive Launches in June - Games Include Assassins Creed II, Borderlands and Mass Effect 2

I've got some new screenshots from Heavy Rain's Taxidermist DLC for you below. If you don't remember The Taxidermist is Chapter 1 of the Heavy Rain Chronicles, and focuses on investigative journalist Madison Paige and her hunt for the notorious killer. All of the chapter DLC will run you $4.99 but I'm still hunting for a launch date for the Taxidermist.

The last time I heard, Sony said it would be available one month after the game launched; this would put the DLC date somewhere around March 23rd or so.

Read more: Want Some Heavy Rain Taxidermist DLC Images?

You know when I said now that the Stargate Worlds MMO was canceled it would make room for another franchise like Battlestar Galactica I was just throwing it out there on a lark. Turns out I'm psychic because NBC Universal just announced that Battlestar Galactica Online is in development for a Fall 2010 launch. There's a catch though, well two actually; it's being developed by a German company (Bigpoint) and it's going to be browser-based. This isn't to say that it will only be in German but that it's going to have a German kind of feel to it maybe, like the Anno games for instance. Euros might not notice it but there is a distinctive feel to these games noticeable to someone in the New World. Of course you probably say the same thing about games developed here like MW2 so it doesn't mean much.

Now if I could just forget the last season of the show I might be really excited by this announcement and maybe now that Caprica is redeeming the franchise a bit with some much needed backstory that doesn't involve angels (yet...) the game could be good or at the very least not suck as much as all the other game made based off of TV shows or movies.

Head over to the teaser site to be teased and sign up for more info: http://www.bgo.bigpoint.com/

Read more: Browser-based Battlestar Galactica MMO Being Developed

It's always interesting to see how game devs try to renew interest in franchise games that update frequently. This is most common in sports games like NBA, NFL varieties and now PGA. EA Sports is livening up Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 with some new features that actually are pretty interesting. The launch date for all the versions (iPhone, PS3, Wii and Xbox 360) is June 8th.

The one that caught my eye first was the fact that it will support Sony's still unnamed motion controller but they don't mention Natal support at all. Now that might not be a big deal because Natal was designed to be a more seamless controller that would work with most games anyway but we'll see if that works in practice without special code built into the game. Maybe it uses on-board game profiles to port support - that would make the most sense actually.

Read more: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 11 to Support PS3 Motion Controller and Online Teams

Activision announced the next MW2 map pack with their snarky Mapathy site. The site features an attractive woman looking a bit sad. No it's not that time of the month, nor did her kitten just die or is she bummed about the lack of dedicated PC servers. She is sad because she is tired of playing the same MW2 maps over and over. Activision says they have the cure... for Xbox 360 gamers that is. Xbox 360 exclusive on this one but I believe it's a "time exclusive" meaning you'll get this on PS3 and maybe PC at a later date.

Activision and IW provided nothing more than a date of March 30th. No number of maps, no list of maps, no screenshots. Just. A. Date. Of course with GDC going on right now in San Fran it's likely we'll get more info on this soon and there was also the leak last week that's on Youtube showing at least five maps - Crash, Overgrown, Complex, Compact and Storm. This is all unofficial but Activision keeps getting the video taken down so that might mean something...

Read more: Activision Want to Cure Mapathy with MW2 Map Pack DLC

Codemasters just dumped two images from their newly announced Bodycount game and while they look nice, I'm not sure releasing only two images help bolster their claims that the game will "rip apart the First Person Shooter and deliver genre-defining gun play that comes alive in an orgy of bullets and destruction." Yeah, that's actually what the press release says.

Here's more:

Designed by Creative Director Stuart Black (co-creator and designer of Black, 2006), Bodycount is being created by an all-star development team using the EGO Game Technology Platform, an evolution of Codemasters’ award-winning engine, for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation3 computer entertainment system and scheduled for release in Q1 of 2011.

Wow, OK I better start mentally getting ready for this game because I don't want my world ripped apart without taking some precautions first.

Read more: Codemasters' Bodycount Will Rip Apart FPS Genre With Orgies When Launched