PS Vita preorder decisions : Army Corps Of Hell for £19.95 for the death metal!

Watching the videos of this game was not enough to get me to order it , Square Enix publishing it piqued my interest a little , but what made it a must have is when I read about and heard the sound track , that and it being £19.95 to pre order here

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Download Final Fantasy VII now for £7.99! It's blubbering time again....S-E-P-H-I-R-O-T-H!

The first game that made you and a generation cry ( intentionally). It is the only Final Fantasy worth playing through 60 hours of random battles , cgi and has you singing along to the Sephiroth song after the credits role..I speak of course of the PC version of Final Fantasy VII .Which I have been trying to buy all day but cannot because you lot are overloading the site , or Square Enix have messed up... Regardless get to the official download page and spend your £7.99 ,me I would have charged £7.77 but then I'm cool, I wonder if the old Sephiroth in your party mod still works...

There are some awesome Square experimental classics that I would love to see them release on PC , Internal Section , Front Mission Alternative and Einhander to name but 3 and if you know those three you know your games...

It is great to see Square Enix start to turn things round, Sleeping Dogs looks like it is going to do a Just Cause 2 later this week too.

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The World Ends With You solo remix on iOS has Square Enix Reaping Core gamer loyalty and cash

Evidence that it is game over for the age of platform exclusives comes no clearer than in the form of The World Ends with You: Solo Remix for iPad - SQUARE ENIX ..at this rate it will not be long before we see ATLUS bringing Persona to iOS, Android and Windows 8.. These are premium games that command premium prices and attract core gamers to what were considered casual gaming devices ...not any longer if Square Enix's success is anything to go by... I just adore the music in this game, stick on some good quality cans when you play half the atmosphere of this game is created by the tunes those sickly sweet yet beautifully raw faux j-pop classics.. Best sound track in a Japanese game sporting actual songs since the original Jet Set Radio...Does it hurt me paying this much for an iOS game , of course not Nintendo and Sony have had us paying up to 5 times this amount for cartridges and discs that eventually die whereas our digital copies on iOS live on for ever... 

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Play Hitman Blood Money in your browser now FREE through CORE online: SQUARE ENIX's HD cloud gaming service

Square Enix have just launched a cloud based gaming service that runs through an Internet browser and allows you to play full games FREE ( with ads!) besting GAIKAI and onlive in one fell swoop... it is called Core Online and currently Hitman Blood Money and Mini Ninjas are available as part of a beta .. you know fans will be screaming for FREE Final Fantasy VII ... ViII ...IX... 

Square Enix have not only had an excellent year delivering games through retail and the likes of Steam , they have gone one step further and started to deliver games through the cloud. Now this is more like it , for there is no reason why everything isn't being streamed right now . to browsers on Windows , iOS and Android machines .. well ok there is a walled garden or so in the way but as the last great Republican president from Hollywood said tear that Wall down Mr G... tear it down...

Once again I find myself having a slight chuckle at the alleged 384 million smackeroonies that Sony laid out for Gaikai.  Core online uses java to stream or download games , there is more downloading going on than Gaikai and in browser I got around 30 FPS playing Hitman  , hitting full screen though I got around 12 FPS .. yes this is a beta but still very impressive. During my test I got none of the server queue or lag warnings or game kick outs that Gaikai is renowned for ( and the reason they limit it to demos) or the eponymous your connection has dropped below the level required for onlive to work warnings...

So we are not going to be playing Just Cause 2 or Sleeping dogs just yet through core online full speed and full screen , though based on my test today you should be able to play in browser at 30FPS . Not bad not bad at all. 

The way Core online gets round the random kick you out of a game syndrome that Gaikai and to a lesser extent onlive suffer from and manage to let you play through a full game is to break the games down into chapters . This also allows for the add revenue model to be implemented which keeps your gaming free... 

Core online represents great competition for Gaikai and onlive. GAIKAI suffers from server queues , java breakdowns and is still locked on short demos, whilst onlive delivers full games they are also at full cost .  

What is  also unique about Core online is this is the first example of a publisher bypassing Gaikai and onlive to deliver its own content through the cloud , to your browser and delivers full games FREE .. with ads of course .. but totally FREE ! Why waist time with Gaikai or money with onlive ? This add revenue model has been tried before with downloadable add driven episodic content games like Halcyon Sun back in the day. Will it work now where it failed before ? Well yes why not , do I mind playing full PC games for free with a few adds and near instantly on any hardware that can run java? Pas problem!

Like I have stated  many times there is no walled garden that can be placed around the cloud, anything can and will be streamed, right now Core Online and Square Enix are heralding a second phase of cloud gaming moving on from cloud specialists like Gaikai and Onlive .The next phase in the evolution of the cloud is where open source java based streaming software becomes as widely available as and replaces torrent downloads and then we will be free to stream anything anytime anywhere to any device in the meantime check out some Hitman , the video above is captured from playing the game in Core Online in a Chrome browser and full screen to show you the difference in FPS using FRAPS...

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