TOM CLANCY'S SPLINTER CELL CONVICTION LIMITED COLLECTORS EDITION BOX SHOTS AND IN STOCK NOW !

The wait is over check out the sealed box for the Limited Collectors Edition of Sam Fishers latest greatest adventure , with bearded action figure , well you have to have something to do after your five hours are up , honestly people play on the hardest setting to start with , try an eye patch or have random family members stand in front of the tv to make the experience last - well I I am sure its excellent all the same ......

Ubisoft are primed to take the most collectible game crown back from God Of War 3 and their own Assassins Creed 2 Black Edition with the return of Sam Fisher in Tom Clancy`s Splinter Cell Conviction Collectors Edition   : amongst other things proving that good guys have beards too!


ORDER NOW ! RELEASE DATE 16/04/10 

  

AND THIS IS WHAT THE BOX LOOKS LIKE

LETS TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT SAM IN IS CARDBOARD/CELLOPHANE PRISON

HOW LONG WILL YOU LEAVE HIM IN THERE?

THE BACK 

AND THE LAST SIDE REVEALING THE GHOST  RECON FUTURE SOLDIER BETA
LIMITED TIME OFFER  

including insured delivery to

UK £199.99 EUROPE AND IRELAND £260.00 USA AND CANADA £299.99 WORLDWIDE COURIER £399.99

An exclusive Sam Fisher statue
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction game in unique SteelBook case
Infiltration Mode : Eliminate all hostiles in the mission area without being detected
A special playable skin: Shadow Armor
Early access to 3 weapons: SC300, SR2 and MP5
The official Splinter Cell Conviction Soundtrack (more than 17 tracks)

No shaving kit or box of chocolates  then?


Even Jack  Bauer shaves these days , sometimes !

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UK £199.99 EUROPE AND IRELAND £260.00 USA AND CANADA £299.99 WORLDWIDE COURIER £399.99

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TOM CLANCY`S SPLINTER CELL CONVICTION LIMITED COLLECTORS EDITION PC VERSION IN STOCK NOW

Ubisoft are primed to take the most collectible game crown back from God Of War 3 and their own Assassins Creed 2 Black Edition with the return of Sam Fisher in Tom Clancy`s Splinter Cell Conviction Collectors Edition  for the PC  : amongst other things proving that good guys have beards too! 

IN STOCK NOW ! RELEASE DATE 30/04/10 

check out the sealed box front 

AND THE REVERSE : NOTE THE WARNING TO ATI HD 3000 OWNERS 

AND THE SIDES 

including insured delivery to

UK £199.99  EUROPE AND IRELAND £260.00  USA AND CANADA £299.99  WORLDWIDE COURIER £399.99

An exclusive Sam Fisher statue
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction game in unique SteelBook case
Infiltration Mode : Eliminate all hostiles in the mission area without being detected
A special playable skin: Shadow Armor
Early access to 3 weapons: SC300, SR2 and MP5
The official Splinter Cell Conviction Soundtrack (more than 17 tracks)

No shaving kit or box of chocolates  then?

Even Jack  Bauer shaves these days , sometimes !

INSURED DELIVERY 

including insured delivery to

UK £199.99  EUROPE AND IRELAND £260.00  USA AND CANADA £299.99  WORLDWIDE COURIER £399.99

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STEAM vs Onlive : A case of who streams wins?

  

The 2010 same old same old  end of year/ Christmas Steam sale was shockingly blown away by the magic of instant no install play anywhere Onlive gaming and a freeplay fortnight that liberated many a jaded core pc gamer from having to download gigabytes of game data and more importantly freeing them from a constant hardware and software upgrade cycle.


Jump to 2011 and Steam vs Onlive is now a weekly duel , for your gaming time , last week this took the form a battle for the digital skies as Iceman  Steam  faced off against Maverick onlive  Every week two tribes are warring over the digital game delivery turf ..... who will win ? .. You will.... 


Take last weeks Tom Clancy's Hawx 2 sale on Steam , 50% off sounded like a good deal , but I could not  be bothered with downloading another 12gb of data , hold on , clicking on the onlive icon I can play the game instantly . No install no drivers , and I can play from desktop , joojoo(see below) and Toshiba Libretto ..effortlessly. Frankly the game is not that great so I will take the instant demo on the Joojoo , and not even bother with booting up my desktop pc.... 


There you go think of the time and money I just saved , thanks to onlive.


check me playing Hawx 2 , note the use of the joojoo touch screen to target and launch ordinance 

Welcome to the future , 2011 is going to be full of similar happy dilemmas , and as onlive picks up more AAA content , eventually lets say a Call Of Duty or 8 , you know that this is the way you will chose to play. 


Steam is awesome but for many the grey lining Gabe's cloud is the lack of real competition,no other digital game delivery service comes close when re  AAA game distribution.Retailers even threatened to think about maybe sometime in a parallel dimension refusing to stock games that required Steam , but that was last year ....


The arrival of  onlive changes all this and with new games appearing every week ,for the first time in years I have a choice , to go for the traditional download and install , and have to upgrade hardware or just click the onlive icon and play near instantly a demo of the game , which I can take any where  and play across the many devices  I have lying around or can scrounge from passers by...


The great seed that  Steam planted insheeption style into the brains of core gamers is the revelation that really you never own anything digital , even the the Bluray/DVD spinning in your ageing BR drive has a shelf life , and now we know in essence even physically bought games are only leased - as long as companies keep gaming servers going .  When games get too old they will all be abandon ware anyway google any of your grandpas favourites , and you will find them out there in the cloud ,more than likely you will find them playable in a browser...on your phone!


So whilst the casuals are making with the funny eyes with Nintendo 3DS games I can play full spec pc games on  almost anything with a Windows , or Mac based OS thanks to onlive.

Needless to say you need a Mac or Windows based device at present , if you go for a tablet this year and are serious about serious pc gaming then make sure it runs Windows , it is worth it to see full spec PC games run magically on your tablet without installs , hardware or software worries... or ever having to download an app..


Is there room for both Steam and Onlive ,at the moment yes,  but as our pc gaming habits change from the endless hardware upgrade and software upgrade routines that Steam requires ,Steam's market share will dwindle . And this is a good thing what made Intel great was competition from AMD , nVidia and ATI drive each others progress , and now Steam has onlive to contend with this can only mean benefits for gamers .... 


I can see a scenario where core gamers collect games on Steam but also purchase them on onlive for convenience , yes gamers are that crazy... they build 10 k gaming rigs to browse websites and play dos box games....


To counteract onlive ,  Steam must go the way of streamed gaming , as the games companies it relies on will see a far more beneficial return from completely cloud based games services like  onlive and the rise of browser based gaming ..Browser based gaming is no longer just minimalist facebook social gaming but full blown PC games , like the recent Beta of Battlestar Galactica online shows .


It is likely that the greatest advance in PC gaming , like all the best revolutions , just very quietly  happened,  and soon gamers will demand the  release of all major PC games through the cloud , whether on an updated Steam or onlive , or through a humble browser ....  and just think you will be able to status update your grandkids that you were virtually there in amongst the thick of it... And they said freedom isn't free !







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gamescom Ubisoft sale has Hawx 2 ,Driver ,From Dust and Silent Hunter for £1

Ubisoft celebrate Gamescom with £1 game deals starting with Hawx 2 alongside these deals are 60 to 75% off other titles at their online store ...as you can see from the Nexus 7 screen caps here .This is a drive to increase the numbers of Uplay users, which you are going to need to download these games...

Whilst there is the usual buzz with all major softcos setting up real shop at gamescom 2012 , this year it is accompanied with a cloud of digital retail shop activity with every major publisher positioning its digital delivery service as direct competition to the likes of Steam. No longer are publishers tied to physical retail shops, with stock, delay and staff vs customer battles for the last copy of game x...

So far this week we have had Square Enix launch  Final Fantasy VII through their online store, whilst onlive are plugging their cloud gaming service with another sale , EA have a gamescom sale too for pre orders of games that may not see the light of day till 2014 ,THQ too and of course Steam,Impulse(Gamestop) and Gamers Gate and Desura have their own sales .All of which are going to cost me too much money and I will be covering over the next few days.

Developers delivering content directly to users is nothing new in the world of PC indie gaming but right now we have the largest number of major softcos delivering content directly to gamers bypassing the likes of Steam altogether. Welcome to the new frontier of digital and cloud distribution of games.. 

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