I should be playing Killlzone 3 , but I have more interesting quests at hand , for instance: Using the power of the nVidia Ion gpu in a joojoo tablet to play the classic Homeworld 2 (demo) . if you have a Windows based tablet go for it , this game is awesome , and made for touch , even though Relic probably never considered it would or could be played this way :
The Homeworld games have an almost hypnotic quality , with depth that will keep you playing 8 hour battles into the early hours , and that is before you get to all the user created mods ...
This Good Friday thegameveda is not down with the Portal 2 media hype , thegameveda remembers when games took longer to start than the 5 hours it takes to finish Portal 2 , and forget Boon et als latest Kombat , Johnny Cage wins needs to be shouted by a Snes or Genesis sound chip. Those graphics need to be faux scanned 16 or 8 bit colour 2d sprites . There needs to be mortal kombat between Snes and Genesis/Megadrive owners .. that is what made the game . These games will be bargain bin in a few weeks , so hold off people .
Today , thegameveda made a happy discovery whilst performing the latest test of the Acer Iconia Tablet . Playing Relics finest Homeworld 2 , was always going to be on the test list , I have already shown it running on the Joojoo , but was having trouble with the higher res on the Acer Iconia , twas then I actually opened the read me , discovered adding a -w 1366 -h 1536 switch to a new shortcut to the game , actually stretched the game across both screens ! I played through the 2 demo missions and tried to film them with one hand , whilst playing with the other .
Relics Homeworld series has an amazing hypnotic quality , and on the dual screens of the Acer Iconia it looks amazing , still the most beautiful Space bound RTS .
look at the size of that thing!
enough with the pictures time for some video :
the Iconia continues to impress , and Mr Steve Jobs , hurry up with those iPad 2 stock increases , I may even forget about iPad 2 altogether at this rate ...
Yes I could go download some old games for free on PSN , now that the EU store is offering them , or about to offer them , depending on your location or I could draw your attention to Homeworld 2 on the Toshiba Libretto , here you see me playing on one of the 7 inch touch screens , using the keyboard on the 2nd touch screen , because Relic had the foresight to predict touch screen interfaces and dual screen touch screen tablets (!) you can actually set the game to any resolution , with a simple switch -w 1024 -h 600 in this case , or to play it in portrait mode just use -w 600 -h 1024 , and when you really want to impress use -w 1200 or -h 1200 to stretch the game across both touch screens , dual screen multi touch controlled Homeworld 2 in the palm of your hands ! To be able to play classics like this in the palm of your hands , and be able to mess with them , changing the res , or using one of the many many mods is priceless ... so I think I'll hold off using that bandwidth for PSN for a little while longer ...
(demo) . if you have a Windows based tablet go for it , this game is awesome , and made for touch , even though Relic probably never considered it would or could be played this way : 
