If you’re an avid console gamer and like your crime-fiction, the chances are you’ve played L.A. Noire, or at the very least, heard of it.

OnLive may have started out life as an online gaming company but it’s taken a step towards being a full-on business offering of late with the release of OnLive Desktop for the iPad. Now the firm is seeking to monetize its latest business-focused venture by offering a pay-for subscription service which will offer new features to those willing to pay up.

Take two technologies that have yet to really get off the ground and mash them together. What do you get? OnLive’s gaming service working on a Google TV of course!

In a move that came a little out of the blue for us, OnLive has announced that it will be launching a new app for the iPad which will allow users to stream an entire Windows 7 desktop experience to their tablet.

Have you wanted to play console-quality games on your iPad or Android smartphone/tablet? Well, you can now do exactly that with OnLive’s new app. Details after the jump!

OnLive, the fancy way of ‘streaming’ games to your computer or OnLive’s own set-top box, excels at allowing those of us without monster PCs or Mac Pros, to play all the latest titles without needing to splash the cash on expensive upgrades by streaming the video to a client machine, and sending key and mouse commands back in the other direction. It works well, for the most part. The service even has iPad and Android clients, but that’s not quite as exciting as you might think.