Entertaible? Entertaining!

Philips, obviously addicted to making things for gamers (like the crack monkeys they are…mooonkeeeeys!), are coming out for non-video game games for gamers to game when they’re not online gaming. Phew.

Apparently Philips is under the impression that MMOG’s don’t exist and want to focus on the good old honest social interaction that used to occur across the family dining room table. Board games. Yes, electronic giant Philips is going into board games. Mind you it wouldn’t be from Philips if it didn’t involve fancy technology and cool cool things. Their new venture, the “Entertaible”, contains the following nifty bits according to Eurogamer.net:

a 30-inch horizontal LCD touch-screen which has been designed for use in all lighting conditions. “Multi-object position detection” means it can tell where real life playing pieces such as pawns and dice are, and the electronic nature of the whole thing makes for “dynamic playing fields and gaming levels”

Sounds interesting in all honesty, save for the mention that they’re considering porting existing classic board games onto the Entertaible. For cripe’s sake, just leave good things alone and stop trying to update them. They’re classics for a reason: because they work the way they are!