GC 2008: Is that a floating inflatable Death Star in your trade show lobby?
Or are you just pleased to see us?
It has to be said, mobile gaming isn't exactly a priority at GC 2008. A few mobile firms have stands – Fishlabs, for example – and some console firms have mobile sections on their stands, like Konami.
But other than that, you could easily wander the show and not realise mobile gaming even exists. It's a bit of a shame, considering tens of thousands of gamers are set to descend on the show for its first consumer day tomorrow.
So, in the absence of any mobile stuff to shoot, we were forced to scout around for other cool stuff with a tenuous mobile connection.
Like the giant inflatable Death Star (above), which will hopefully put attendees in mind of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for N-Gage. Maybe.
Then there was the modded iMac with dayglo bubbling liquid inside, which may have been a swizzy cooling system, or may have been some kind of Jekyll & Hyde style potion brewer that turns you from a Mac fanboy to a Vista nerd (and back again).
Probably the former. It did make us wonder whether modded iPhones are the next big thing, though, to bring it back tenuously to mobile gaming.
More relevant, perhaps, is the fact that Nokia is paying people to wander the exhibition carrying giant N-Gage branded beanbags, inviting attendees to settle down on them for a rest (and presumably a play on an N-Gage game:
Less Reset Generation, and more – and we did spend a good ten minutes thinking this up, so do us the honour of laughing – Re-sat Generation. Eh? Oh.
Finally, something we happened upon that's in no way relevant to mobile gaming at all, other than that the person doing it was mobile, is this:
