I went to today's keynote,despite the little voice in my head screaming "keynotes are always boring! don't go don't go!". (Oh yes, I have voices in my head. I named that one Sedgwick.)

The one today was by Hideo Kojima, the creative mind behind the fantastic movie series known as Metal Gear.

The takeaway message: technology is making things that were previously impossible, possible. Like before we couldn't do 3d graphics... but then the Sony Playstation came out and now we can. And before that we couldn't do really cool 40 minute cinematics, but then the Sony Playstation 2 came out, and now we can. And then we couldn't do large scale outdoor battles, but fortunately the Sony Playstation 3 came out and...

Later he politely suggested that Westerners design games around technology too much.

So essentially the theme was that often impossible things are actually possible once Sony makes it possible. So, you know, we should be striving to make things possible and stuff. I'm sure you're all very motivated now.

(Going to post some session coverage later tonight.. sessions were cool. Learned many things.)