Reporting from Las Vegas' CES, Gamasutra editor-at-large Chris Morris looks at video games' presence at the major electronics show, examining how the show hints at the blossoming of a post-console future for games.
For a trade show that's not about video games, there sure are a lot of people talking about and playing them here at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show.
OnLive, Kinect and Playstation are being discussed nearly as much as tablets, 3D TVs and cameras. It's some of the clearest data yet showing that as video games evolve and grow, the industry is moving closer and closer to the world of mainstream entertainment.
So CES 2011 has come and gone for another year. Whether you wanted to find mice shaped like Ford Mustangs or wanted a Michael Jackson impersonator to give you a free iPhone case or anything in between, the Consumer Electronics Show was your bag. But there were a few glaring omissions from this and pretty much every CES that there's been in recent years. Two of the biggest entities in consumer electronics, Apple and pretty much the entire video game industry, were absent once again from this year's show. So is CES a fraud and overblown or can it live on in all its obscure glory without these groups?
Who doesn’t love Angry Birds? Exactly, everyone loves Angry Birds. In fact, Gear4 has been so overwhelmed with requests for more Angry Birds iPhone cases – that they rolled them out just in time for the CES.
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