I have 3 exams in all of my major Physics and Maths courses in 2 weeks which basically means no gaming and a lot of cramming.

I am actually quite good at that while staying in the library but I still remain a very lazy person by nature and you know what lazy people are really good at? Rationalizing their laziness and convincing themselves that not doing particular things will be for the greater good of humanity etc.

So, my bluetooth headphones’ battery died and I convinced myself in no time that having Foo Fighters blast my brains while studying for Calculus is important enough to go home. Of course I didn’t do any real studying the whole evening and decided to go to bed early in order to start fresh next morning. The problem is that I came to this wise decision just after I drinking a big mug of coffee…

The result is obvious – I am laying in bed, bestowing my wisdom on you, dear reader, only via the power of modern mobile technology, namely the iPhone 3GS.

Normally I tend to avoid popular things like the plague and, naturally, I hated the iPhone from its very first day. Just after 3GS was released and I tried to make some quick money by reselling one I got quickly converted and instead got rid of my WinMo SE Xperia X1.

This is one pretty amazing little piece of technology. I’m not going to start on that one because I could talk for hours about gadgets. The point is, I can write a complete post for Wordpress and then reformat it for GT while running Facebook and Skype with the Backgrounder and checking out some stuff in Safari…

So, what’s missing in the picture?

Gaming, of course! I admit, it’s fun to play some Minigore, Ragdoll Blast or the recently ported 80s arcade classic Dragon`s Lair on my iPhone for 10 minutes on the bus but I`m still disappointed in how far mobile gaming has gone since the original Nintendo Game Boy. Hell, the last major advancement for mobile gaming (guess which, abbreviated with 3 letters) came almost 5 years ago!  No offence, Sony, I have tried really hard since then to like your “portable console” but it simply offers an experience too inferior for me to call it “gaming”. I can`t see myself paying more than $5 for the top PSP titles. I`m not even going to start on the Nintendo DS, let`s just say that its sales figures are to me a great mystery not far behind the Events before the Big Bang happened.

But there is hope…

• The revolutionary one-chip-computer APX 2600 by nVidia has finally found its way into an actual device last year – the MS Zune HD!
• Nintendo has, too, made a contract with nVidia about using a simpler version in their next-gen DS which presumably will be announced this year.
• Palm is getting suddenly all enthusiastic about gaming on the webOS and will actually be attending this year`s Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco this March.

These are some of the most notable titles from the Palm App Catalog and more will be coming by EA, Gameloft, Glu Mobile and Laminar.

* “Need for Speed(TM) Undercover” (EA Mobile)
* “The Sims(TM) 3″ (EA Mobile)
* “MONOPOLY(TM)” (EA Mobile)
* “Asphalt 5: Elite Racing” (Gameloft)
* “Let’s Golf!” (Gameloft)
* “Glyder 2″ (Glu Mobile)
* “X-Plane” (Laminar Research)

Asphalt 5 is available on the iPhone, too, and is definitely one of the best looking titles on any mobile platform!

My take on the future of mobile gaming:

Even if Apple manage to squeeze a quad-core Intel i7 into their next-gen iPhone, and that little bugger would eat the battery of a 3GS in about 5 minutes according to my humble calculations, Gaming on a 3.5 inch screen is pretty pathetic in my opinion.

My personal hope for mobile gaming in the near future is in bigger but still portable machines like netbooks and Tablet PCs. This year`s CES (Consumer Electronics Show) showed a significant increase of interest for Tablet PCs like the HP Slate. Plus Apple`s rumored Tablet is supposed to be announced on 28. January. I guess  that whatever Apple release in a week, even if it cooks and does better blowjobs than your girlfriend, this new device simply doesn`t stand a chance to live up to the hype and tension. I still lay my best bet for mobile gaming on Tablets, Ultraportables and Netbooks! I would really like to get some opinions on that, very important for the whole Universe, matter.

I admit that half-way through I got a little more excited about the topic and I finished my post on my notebook but I really wrote more then a half on my phone. I think I can sleep now, good night.