This year's CES marked the 40th Anniversary of the event. There were plenty of games to go around in different areas. Nintendo didn't have any official CES presence, but Wii was at both the IBM and the Dolby booth, where it attracted a lot of attention.

Nintendo was honored with an Emmy Award at the show from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for its D-pad controller, which was introduced in 1985. The controller, which has evolved over the years to the current Wii, helped changed the way people interacted with games. For the record, Sony also received an Emmy for its PlayStation 2 Dual Shock controller.

One of the biggest gaming collections could be found at the World Series of Gaming tent, which was located just across the street from the main entrance and right next to the Microsoft Vista tent. There was over 10,000 square feet of games inside. In addition to being able to watch professional gamers competing on PC and Xbox 360, the massive tent offered spectators the chance to check out the latest, super-powered gaming PCs running not-yet-released games like Hellgate: London and Crysis. There were also sitdown racing simulators to drive.

One interesting gaming technology that was shown at CES is ambx from Philips. When connected to a PC and played with an ambx game, this technology brings heat, cold and wind to games through devices that connect to your PC. It adds another level of interactivity to PC games and the plan is for this type of technology to migrate to next generation consoles over time.

While the status of the new E3 is still very much up in the air, there was not a huge influx of gaming companies at CES this year. The past few years has seen a gradual increase in the amount of games shown. And there's a lot of crossover with gaming press and technology press, since Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 both play movies as well as games. And everything from iPods to Zunes connect to these devices.