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Galactic Civlizations 2 running on Impulse played using touch on the joojoo

Oh yes , another of the million and one reasons to have Windows 7 on your tablet. Here you can see Stardock's awesome Impulse running Galactic Civilizations 2 on my joojoo tablet . Whilst all y'all keep reading about how doomed the Windows 7 platform is for tablets there are quite a few happy gamers enjoying , and eminently able to enjoy at no extra cost , their entire Steam , Onlive , and Impulse collections using touch! RTS was made for touch screens in the video below you see me messing with the interface for GalCiv 2  . Let this be a lesson to all the nay sayers , look at the hardware in the tech your favourite tech blog is slagging off . A year ago I did that with the joojoo , it's why I got one whilst I could , because it was a surefire thing to get Windows running on it . But I did not expect the ion gpu to pack so much muscle . Now  go look at all the vitriol poured on the Fusion Garage joojoo , and then check out the real experience here on thegameveda blog and youtube channel, an experience that you cannot find on any other tablet!  Whilst visiting those famously Apple centric sites , why not post them a few links to show them what I have been up to with the joojoo , which obviously was never going to take down Apple ,but is right now my favourite gaming machine . Oh and my 9 times faster iPad 2 , well gotta love the design and the marketing on that ...It is nice to have tech you never open or mess with , but real core are rebellious in nature , they /we/you made the games and tech industry , that is why once in while it is nice to go against the grain . now dontcha wish your tablet could do this :

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Pre order Sins of A Solar Empire Rebellion for $29.95 and get Beta Access

Stardock have their upcoming Rebellion , the next chapter in the Sins of A Solar Empire at just $29.95 a limited time pre order offer for those wise enough to already own , Trinity or Diplomacy . Of course the more master of the universe worthy among you may just have X.X.X.X`d you could pick up Trinity really cheap , register it and then get your pre order bonus discount in for what is expected to one of the PC`s finest games . And you get to support a great PC games developer in the process... 


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Sins Of A Solar Empire Rebellion played on Dual 14" touch screens of a Windows 8 Acer Iconia 6120

So the 12th of June brought us the final release ( for now ) of Sins of A Solar Empire Rebellion , the game itself has quietly become THE reason to own , upgrade and mess with the format we know and love as the PC .  

I have been filming videos of playing the entire series on Win 7 tablets, and later Windows 8 Tablets for the longest time. So what is there to report ?

The game itself like I said is reason alone to purchase your first PC , and re tech specs , I first played on the Atom powered joojoo and it runs fine , on the i7 Intel HD 3000 powered X220T you can easily run it at 1920 by 1080 on your 30incher , or the tablet screen itself at 1366 by 768 , but the coolest option of all is when you run and play on the dual 14" touch screens of the Acer Iconia which is 1st gen i5 Intel GMA powered , and it flies as you will see using Windows 8 Release Preview ,   which also means it will fly veritably on upcoming Windows 8 tablets ... or the ones I build anyway....!

Frankly I would use it to launch Windows 8.... frankly they won't need to  , because you are going to own it way before the official launch of Windows 8 ... 

What has changed since the Beta is that 10 point touch works across both screens , or for those still using mice you mouse will work across multiple monitors ... if you check some of my earlier videos you will see pinch zooming working only on the lower screen, now it works across both. Problems include some flickering of the menu and icons .. but PC fans are well used to initial launch problems like these .All the screens you see here are captures from dual screen landscape orientation, of course a static representation can not hope to show you the beauty of this game ... 

As for playing the game , I love the sandbox nature of it all , if there is a story I have no idea about you see I am too busy getting lost in the game mechanic , the thing that makes the greatest RTS games , which is ebb and flow , take for instance the brief time I was filming the game for this article now , playing through the new iPad screen one handed on dual touch screens  I was not going to get any where fast . But I managed to set up a defensive grid that happens to hold back pirate raids rather nicely as you can see . This after my great battle cruisers had all been wiped out ... take a look a my errh vengeance against one such pirate rade below : 

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More to Sins of A Solar Empire Rebellion gameplay to follow on the Lenovo X220T , Toshiba Libretto and joojoo .. desktops ... who needs desktops mine is rusting as I type ...

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