This year at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, E3, Yahoo! Games is expected to debut a mobile interface to the current web portal’s poker games. Yahoo! Poker will let cellphone users play against people on other handsets or sitting at their PCs linked up through a regular internet connection. This cross-platform application “lets people play friends anytime, anywhere and on any device.”

Well, time to start up the E3 engine again. May 17th 2005 begins this year’s E3 expo. Register here. See you there.

After recent coverage of the Infinium Labs Phantom gaming system, I’ve been watching for other subscription-based video game products. I didn’t expect to see it from a cable TV company though.

Comcast said that for a separate monthly fee of $14.95, subscribers would have unlimited access to more than 60 PC-based games, from mainstream titles to educational software. New titles will be added each month, the company said.

Also, Comcast recently acquired TechTV and will apparantly keep the gaming shows on the air. The games service will mix content from G4techTV.

The new G4techTV remains focused primarily on games, and Comcast said clips and other features from the channel would be available as part of the new games service, which runs on systems developed by Exent Technologies.

This sounds like good news for gamers on Comcast. I just hope they will carry worthwhile games. With all that bandwidth available, I’d hate for it to be focused on fare worthy of the computer store bargain bin.

ExtremeTech, the brand under which I wrote my new book, is blogging E3. I think the unusual perspective from ExtremeTech editors will bring a wide diversity of articles and viewpoints from the show. I especially like the up-front attitude expressed in the following snippet:

It’s not always fun or glamorous being at E3. After a couple of days, the feet start to hurt, the throbbing beat from the loud music becomes a throbbing headache and your eyes begin to itch from all the flashing lights and artificial fog. But E3 is about fun, the fun that will be delivered in the coming year or two on game consoles, handheld devices and your PC.

I’m going to the show to meet old friends and new and listen to some 8-bit music. It will also be interesting to see some of the follow-ons to my favorite genres like shooting games, driving games, and my favorite: Shooting-while-driving games. But I feel the same way as the ET folks after a while. You can only stand next to people dressed up like aliens, apes, and stormtroopers for so many days in a row before going batty.