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Spooky online game service, OnLive, launched today in the UK. The service is a cloud gaming platform that allows you to play games on your PC, Mac or the OnLive micro console without you having to install them. That’s right: they just fucking turn up. It’s quite remarkable starting up a game that you haven’t installed and it loading instantly. Also, thanks to the cross-platform cloudiness of the whole thing, your in-game progress is always saved so you can bug out whenever you want and resume play later on whatever device is handy.

We tried out Borderlands and Red Faction: Armageddon and both performed very well on our 50mb connection. Input lag was barely noticeable and graphically both games looked pretty decent. However, (let’s drop the royal ‘we’ for a second) it did make me feel a bit ‘odd’ afterwards, an odd mix of eye-strain and motion sickness (similar to when I tried out a 3DS), but that could just be me.

Anyway, OnLive are celebrating the launch of the service by giving you your first game for a quid which sounds fair enough to us but you can download thirty minute trials of the games on there so you’ve not got anything to lose. Give it a go.  Rich

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We don’t need to be persuadatroned in order to pledge our very lives to the original Syndicate game.  With it’s mix of action, strategy and cyberpunk, it was one of the best games of the 16-bit era.  Syndicate Wars only floated some of our boats though, lacking some of the cohesion and style of its predecessor.

There have been rumours of a sequel in the works for a while now and EA have finally confirmed this and, as in the fucking norm for this generation, it’s going to be a fucking FPS.  The game has been entrusted to Riddick and The Darkness developers, Starbreeze, and they’ve been making all the usual noises about how it’ll stay true to the originals (ie:  they’ll put in a gauss gun) but there will be none of the corporation building of the first game and instead we can expect “a challenging action shooter for today’s gamers as well as fans of the original.”

Oh God… most of today’s gamers are cocksuckers.  They also describe the game as a mix of “fast-paced, futuristic, action shooter”, with a setting and story combined designed to “immerse players in a unique digital world”.  What’s unique about it looking like Bladerunner (you know it will).

Still we remain hopeful.  Not because of this shit but rather the maybe EA will port the original Syndicate over to XBLA.  Or at least make it work on Windows 7. 

In the meantime, here’s the best review of Syndicate you’ve ever read. PWOPA! Rich