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Can touchscreen controls ever replace – or even closely match – control input from a gamepad or keyboard and mouse? This demonstration of Valve’s Portal and Microsoft Flight Simulator played on Microsoft’s experimental Surface platform offers hope that it might.
Back in July, our Luke Plunkett wrote about the high-tech future of board games. Then we saw a canned demo of classic game Catan on Microsoft’s surface. Now, watch real people play, as seen at PAX 2010.
They weren’t exactly impressive, but the Microsoft Surface tables set up at CES did have games running on them. Too bad they all seemed like the sort you’d find on an iPhone and not a $US10,000 interactive computer thingie.
The Dubai bubble might have burst, but don’t tell Microsoft. The company is rolling out an Xbox 360 corner of Dubai International Airport’s Terminal 3 Emirates Business Lounge.
