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Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of Lions Coming to iPhone

Square Enix announced yesterday that Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of Lions is coming to the iPhone. Final Fantasy Tactics is a departure from a the usual mechanics of the Final Fantasy series, featuring an isometric view of the battlefield and many, many customization options for your characters. The original game first appeared on the Play Station in 1997, and War of Lions is a remake Square Enix launched on PSP 2 years ago.

Square Enix hasn’t announced a release date yet, or whether this “remake of the remake” will carry along some exclusive features for the iPhone. Check out the promo video after the break.

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GameSalad is a Game Creation Tool for Mac, iPhone, and iPad

If you’re not impressed with the games at this week’s E3, why not make your own? TUAW reports that GameSalad gives anyone the ability to create games for the Mac, iPhone, and iPad. If you’ve ever wanted to create the platform adventure of your dreams, this is your chance. Though TUAW admits,

“Apparently, lots of people have that know-how, because there are already over 700 games that have used GameSalad’s development kit to bring their titles to the App Store. Herring showed me a few of them, and while they were playable, none of them really intrigued me. It’s tough to blame GameSalad for that, though; most of the fault on the games that I played came from the creators, not the tools.”

Hopefully we’ll see someone put these tools to good use, and in the meantime you can check it out for yourself here.

[via TUAW]

OnLive Reveals Launch Titles, Macs and iPad to Get Console Gaming

Cloud based gaming is about to become a reality with the launch of OnLive on June 17th. This week is going to be huge for the video game industry, and OnLive hopes to bring gaming to everyone (on any platform) with their unique approach to gaming. As Macworld reports,

“For the unfamiliar, OnLive is a cloud computing based service that places the burden of processing on OnLive’s servers, not on your computer. This new technology effectively allows OnLive to use any Intel-based Mac as a high-end gaming machine.

The OnLive Game Service is available in two different forms—either through a “MicroConsole”—only about the size of a deck of playing cards—that plugs into your TV and uses your broadband Internet connection, or through your Mac or a PC connected to the Internet and configured with a small browser plug-in available for download from OnLive’s Web site. (source)”

The 1MB client available for the Mac (That’s right - 1MB) allows users to connect to OnLive to try out demos for free, with full titles ranging from $5 to $59 in price.

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Apple, Steam, Mac Mini and Gaming - What’s Next?

Apple has released the new Mac mini which features improved graphics and faster performances, amongst many other new features such as the long-awaited unibody enclosure.  Not to mention the HDMI port on the back, which makes the Mac mini “come to the big screen”. As I saw this new iteration of Apple’s little big desktop computer, I couldn’t help but thinking about the direction Apple is going with gaming on Mac OS X.

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OnLive Demoed at D8, Runs Great on the iPad

OnLive is a game streaming service that will allow you to play videogames over the internet, without the need of installing them on your local machine. You’ll have to pay a monthly subscription fee, have a decent internet connection and you’ll be ready to play any game available on the platform. You can run OnLive both on a computer using a browser plugin or on your TV by purchasing a micro set-top box. It’s a revolutionary service, and it’s launching on June 17th during the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). We can’t wait.

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