All Good Things Must Come to an End!

Look at all that schwag!!! Actually it's just the fine folks at the outdoor booth for Rabbids Go Home. They collected all the shwag that you didn't want (no paper products, and no perishables allowed) in that giant toilet, and gave you underwear in return. You could choose between boxers or thongs!

I decided to spend the last day playing all the games that I didn't get to play in previous days.

Out of all of those games, one game in particular really struck my fancy. That game is an action game called, Bayonetta. The aforementioned action is very fast-paced and fluid, quite reminiscent of the Devil May Cry series. The main character is a witch that wields two-firearms, a katana, and casts magic spells. Can you say, "tasty combo action?" This game is just too much fun! The artwork is gorgeous, the main character is simply one of the greatest female characters in videogames thus far, and the gameplay is very intuitive. Within minutes of starting to play, you will be chaining together jaw-dropping combos, to take out gigantic enemies that barely fit on the screen. Speaking of "screen," I'm sorry to say that I was only able to take a few screenshots, when a Sega employee kindly asked me not to. Sorry guys, I tried.

Be honest, when you look at the character Bayonetta long enough, doesn't she remind you a little bit of Sarah Palin?! It must be the cute glasses and the sly wink!
Bayonetta oozes sex appeal and ballet-like violence in a single breath. One of my favorite magic spells, is one in which the main character's hair comes to life in the form of a monster that towers over her. It is at this point that we notice, she is completely naked! Her hair is actually several miles long, and very strategically wrapped about he immodest parts. The hair monster then comes to life, and destroys the giant 4-story monster that acted as an end-level boss. It's a process that is truly difficult to explain, without it being seen in person.

My next foray was into the world of PC gaming. Alienware was there showing off their top of the line products. However, even at the Alienware booth, their own products were demoted by this amazing curved display from Ostendo. What a beauty!

As nice as the curved display was, it was old tech that had already been mentioned before in the media. However, what I came to lay my eyes upon next, was something that I couldn't even believe existed in 2009. I'm talking about the PCI video card by Fusion-io, called the ioXtreme. This video card carries 80GB on a single PCIe card, and bridges the gap between your RAM and disk drives. Remember that it's your slow disk drive, with it's moving parts, that is the bottle-neck in this process. The demonstrations for this device simply blew me away. Look at the pictures below:
You see all those tiled screens on that huge display? Each one of them is a video file (they were all popular movie trailers), and they are all being run simultaneously. Big deal, right? Well, they are all being run at the same time off of one video card! Let's take a closer look:
You see that video card in the plexiglass display case? Yes, it's doing all the crunching you see above! The premise is that with a videocard of this caliber, your CPU doesn't get drained, or even taxed in the slightest. Amazing isn't it? I certainly thought so.

Well, that's all for this year. Thank you for sharing your precious time and comments with me. It's been a great experience. Hopefully, I'll be able to go again next year, and bring you more info from inside the belly of the beast. Until then, all the best and take care!