Games Festival

I was covering Edinburgh International Games Festival for a Danish magazine last week. It was two days with lectures and debates about everything connected to the videogames industry. This year, as last year, Sony was able to present a new exiting product. Last year it was the brilliant EyeToy, a game interface so simple your grandmother can use it after 30 seconds. This year the hit was the karaoke game Singstar, where you can sing into wireless mics and compete against friends - or enemies. Singstar totally clicked with the audience, and the woman with the idea behind it, Paulina Bozak from Sony's studios in Soho, was awarded the BAFTA Interactive New Talent Award.
The most fascinating new game gadget was a British controller for PS2 called GameTrak. It's basically an infrared controller that makes it possible to control your game with your hands, a stick, a sword or whatever. And it works in 3D - we saw it in function with a combat game, and there is a golf game under way.
Gametrak
Singstar (sorry: Flash site)