Square Enix launches "Core Online"(cloud gaming service,available now)

[maxy]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-08-29-square-enix-launches-cloud-gaming-portal-with-hitman-blood-money

Square Enix has jumped into cloud gaming with a service of its own called Core Online.

You can use it to play Square Enix games in a browser.

The launch games are IO titles Hitman: Blood Money and Mini Ninjas. Coming soon are Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, Tomb Raider Underworld and Gyromancer.

Click on the Hitman play now button and you'll be asked your age before you're shown the game's missions in a grid.

Click play now on one of the missions and you'll be asked to install the Square Enix Secure Launcher. Once the game begins, you get 10 minutes of play time. After this expires, you're asked to watch an advert to earn additional minutes of playtime. Or you can pay $0.49 to unlock the level.

We were given a choice of a Mini Ninjas Adventures ad that lasts for one minute and 15 seconds for 25 minutes of game time; a Game Globe ad for 24 seconds for eight minutes of gaming; and a one minute one second Koozac ad for 20 minutes of game time.

Clicking through, we were shown a YouTube video of Mini Ninjas Adventures. Click away and the video pauses. Don't worry, it'll wait for you to come back. At any point you can accumulate a maximum game time of 60 minutes.

yay?

[Himu]

[Great Rumbler]

Not even for free is it worth having a long commercial interrupt my game every ten minutes.

[Joe Molotov]

Only filthy poor F2P "gamers" would be interested in this.

[MrAngryFace]

WE ALSO HAVE THE CLOUD THAT IS NEW AND THING PEOPLE WANT

[Great Rumbler]

WE ALSO HAVE THE CLOUD THAT IS NEW AND THING PEOPLE WANT

[MrAngryFace]

haha thats what came to mind

[maxy]

loading...loading...loading...loading...loading

wtf

I can watch ads tho(had to disable ad block)

[Momo]

[Himu]

Core? You mean like Core Design?

GOD DAMN YOU SQUARE-ENIX, USING THE NAME OF A STUDIO YOU RAPED OUT OF EXISTENCE TO PROMOTE THIS GARBAGE.


Seems like bad timing. After the clusterfuck this OnLive news has been, I don't think many gamers want to jump on the cloud gaming service bandwagon.

core was defunct in 2006 before s-e even bought eidos

[Sho Nuff]

How long are these ads?

[Verdigris Murder]

The current CEO Mike Fischer doesn't really seem to exist. Maybe he is also a figurative cloud.

[Sho Nuff]

Mike Fischer is a real person, he longboards during lunch break LIKE A BOSS

[Joe Molotov]

How long are these ads?

We were given a choice of a Mini Ninjas Adventures ad that lasts for one minute and 15 seconds for 25 minutes of game time; a Game Globe ad for 24 seconds for eight minutes of gaming; and a one minute one second Koozac ad for 20 minutes of game time.

Hulu Games!

[Positive Touch]

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