Reports of our death were greatly exaggerated says OnLive's Gary Lauder

Whatever happened to game streaming platform OnLive?

Nothing, according to chairman Gary Lauder.

He's broken surface with his first blog post about the company he became the majority owner of in August 2012.

"It has been seven months since I jumped in to save OnLive from a financing mishap, and I have had the opposite of buyer's remorse: buyer's elation!" he writes.

"It's an amazing team that has created two groundbreaking services that have inspired accolades, a loyal fan-base and of course, imitators - the sincerest form of flattery."

As to that bankruptcy, "We should have communicated better", Lauder says.

"When the restructuring of OnLive happened in August, many misunderstood it to mean that the service and company were shutting down. Neither occurred, nor did we go bankrupt.

"As Mark Twain wrote, 'The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated'. Same with us. Our service continued without interruption both in the USA and overseas, and we have about 90 employees."

Indeed, the company has announced it's added Bulldog United founder Don Gordon as senior vice president of engineering.

His goal is to push the development of OnLive's operation on tablets, smart TVs and related devices, as well as expanding OnLive from its current gaming focus to complementary enterprise applications.

"The platform has many other valuable uses, most of which are complementary to the game service due to different time-of-use that fills in the valleys between peak game usage," Lauder explains.

He adds, "Don is the epitome of a 'creative technologist', with all the right skills in his toolbox to lead OnLive into the future".