New Kind of Gaming. And Ireland

Hello children. in today's lesson, i would like to teach you about an interesting gaming service you may or may not have heard of. Probably not. It is called OnLive. I'll explain why it's different

This is a gaming service that, instead of having physical disks or other media, or downloading a digital copy, you get games STREAMED to you over the interwebs. Kind of like a YouTube video. Only you control it. Naturally you'll need a relatively decent internet connection. 5meg is recommended. I have 10 (apparently). As long as you have a decent connection, it's suprisingly fast. Although when it does have speed problems, it really can fuck up your game quite bad. It got me killed once in Splinter Cell: Conviction.

Which leads me on to another subject: Games. The games that are available. There's quite a few. Although they don't seem to get released on there the same time as the same game on other systems, you usually have to wait a few weeks. Although there are quite a few games of varying quality. Here's the list for the UK: http://www.onlive.co.uk/games/featuredgames#&tab=all_games

You can get games in full for a set price, like £30 or thereabouts, or you can get the playpack bundle, which gives you the ability to play lots of games for just under £7 a month. Oh, and you get the first game for £1. Great value isn't it! You can get it for Winblows and Mac(unfortunately not Linux. Yet), or you can get the onlive console (like i have), for i think £70 or £80 (i got mine for £50 off ebay). It's a well made piece of kit. It's well built, has HDMI, 2 USB ports, optical digital out, and it comes with a wireless controller, which also feels well built. Even the USB cable does. Which is a lot like an xbox controller. Which confuses me because i'm used to the PS3 controller. Some xbox compatible controllers also work.

Anyways, all in all, it's a good value service as long as you get the playpack bundle and there's a few games in there you are interested in. I recommend you try it out. And if you do, add me, micolps3. Oh and you can also save what they call brag clips, which let you save the last 10 seconds on gameplay and post it to facebook or send it as a message to someone on onlive.

You can also view other people playing games live, and they can watch you. They can also cheer and jeer you if you do good or bad. It's like facebook likes. Only with dislikes as well (still waiting for facebook to give us that).

And finally. On the 2nd December, i am going to Ireland to see my sexy perfect girlfriend, Tracey Ryan. I shall be returning on the 8th, with the infamous RyanAir (no relation to Tracey). Naturally we'll be doing something very dirty. Mud wrestling. Yeah right. I'm sure you can imagine. Yeah, that,

Anyway, i haven't been sleeping much the past couple of nights. I need sleeping pills. And i've also written quite a lot in a short amount of time (for me). I think i use brackets too much (or do i). Dammit