Our plane arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada at around 3:00AM Eastern Time, which is Midnight local time. As soon as we got off the plane we were bombarded with rows and rows of slot machines in the airport terminal. Suffering from a little jet lag and turbulence on the flight, we decided to head directly to our hotel.

The GamePlasma Crew Arrives in Sin City

When we got to our hotel, we set up a work-station so that we could keep you updated on the happenings here at CES 2005. It isn't much, but it gets the job done. Writing all these articles kept us pretty busy, along with highly competitive matches of Madden NFL 2005 between the Sony Consoles Editor (Brian Callam) and myself. Who needs a big trailer anyways?

GP's Home Away from Home

After we got our makeshift office set up we decided to go check out the Las Vegas Convention Center, where the show is being held. We got to see behind-the-scenes of all the work put into setting up a convention in a 3,000,000+ square foot building.

"I think we took a wrong turn..."

Towards the end of the day, after a random nap in the Riviera's food court, we ended up at the Hilton to stand in line for two hours to see Bill Gates.

The wait was extremely long...

What was it we were waiting for again?

After finally getting into the Hilton Theater, where the keynote address was made, Bill Gates was first introduced by CEA's President, Gary Shapiro. He was then introduced by Late Night's Conan O'Brien.

Gary Shapiro, President & CEO
Consumer Electronics Association

Conan O'Brien at an Electronics Trade Show?!?

Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief Software Architect of Microsoft was finally introduced with a warm welcome from the audience. Although most of the audience didn't catch Conan's jokes, Gates seemed to get a kick out of it. Introducing many new products coming in the near future, Gates also showed off Forza MotorSport, a new title coming to Xbox this spring. Contrary to rumors, the highly-anticipated Xbox 2 was not revealed.

Conan O'Brien Interviews Bill Gates

Gates (Left) in a Mercedes takes on Conan in a Buick Regal.

Who ever said a multi-billionaire can't have fun playing video games?

After the keynote address, the GamePlasma team was exhausted and went back to our hotel. Check out our CES 2005 page here.

Written By: Tim Bradshaw, Chief Editor
Edited By: Brian Callam, Assistant Chief Editor