What did you play over the weekend? I had a full gaming weekend planned but it got screwed up because my dog had diarrhea.

Various enthusiast setups were sprinkled throughout the show - there were racing setups of both the static and the moving-seat variety, 3D-gaming and cinema situations available for perusal by those interested in that kind of thing and an array of triple & sextuple monitor setups. I must admit that my doubts about the notion of a monitor-wall were confirmed - being confronted and simultaneously flanked by monitors, complete with that obnoxious bezel interruption, did little to delight me. Maybe it was just the low framerate of RAGE, or the too-close-for-comfort nature of the multi-monitor set-ups that I tried, but it was incredibly disorienting to me. I was never the kid who threw up on every bus journey but I feel like extended contact with Eyefinity would cause me to violently upchuck at frequent intervals. For some games, namely ones involving significant menu systems that stay static in your peripheral, I can understand what would be added (I have a dual-monitor set-up for day-to-day computerings), but for extending a field of view in a game, I'd much prefer getting a larger central monitor-slab. Do any of you scoundrels partake in the multiple-monitor madness? What am I missing?

One of the things that struck me most about the event was the plethora of mechanical keyboards. The machines on which the Battlefield 3 single-player was being showcased were hooked up to them, while entire stands devoted to mechanical keyboards had set up shop hither and thither. The keyboard manufacturer Cherry had a "guess the colour of the switches" competition - from typing on the keyboard, listening to the pitch and noting the tactile feedback, you were to guess which of the three colour-coded variations were housed within. You didn't win anything if you guessed correctly, of course; just the satisfaction of a smiling nod from a pleasant old keyboard merchant.

LITS was a small show, compared to the likes of the Eurogamer and MCM Expos, but it was full of charm and variety and there were some very legitimate deals to be had on components and hardware. It was nice to see a stand for "Gamer Camp" next to one extolling the virtues of a robotic exoskeleton, watching hydrocarbon waterfalls in liquid-cooled computers and being amidst the crowd curiously gathering to watch the liquid nitrogen aided overclocking of a Bulldozer chip. Such was the momentousness of the occasion, I whipped out my pixel-poor point-and-shoot and captured the following video. Observe! (At one point, the fellow with the microphone says that they've broken the world record. I'm not sure if this is true of liquid nitrogen cooling specifically, but - according to gigabytedaily - it was the actually the ninth highest clock in the world. I'm frankly appalled.)