College has some great points. If you know where to look, you can get onto trips for subjects you aren’t even taking, so I got onto the Btec ICT trip. I do A-Level Computing, which is more programming less gaming. Btec however is more gaming than programming. The trip was to IBM to see a talk about “The future of video games”.
IBM has a base quite near Winchester, Hursley to be a matter of fact. Its research and development down there. They worked on the Cell chip and early colour monitors in the past. Currently it looks like a good place to apply for a job at in the future.
So we go into one of IBM’s presentational hall and sit though a so-so PowerPoint about how video games have evolved and where there gonna go. Then came the second bit, playing video games. The next two hours where spent Wii-ing, Xboxing and PS3ing. Education can be fun. 
Best game of the lot? I got to play Tux Racer on a IBM Thinkpad running Gentoo. It had some sort of motion sensor built in. When I tipped the laptop left, left went Tux. When right, Tux went right. And when down, Tux went faster. Oh the fun!
Plus I got a free IBM pen…
