Had the office christmas do yesterday. Finished work at noon, had extended champagne lunch, went on an outing, had dinner, then drinks. Since we’re a bunch of techy geeks, the outing was both techy and geeky indeed.

It was in fact a city game where you use GPS phones and chase each other.

Game is called The Target. Basically that’s cops and robbers: teams of cops have to chase the robber. He has to “steal” virtual objects, then “commit” virtual crimes. Cops have to prevent that.

We met up in Antwerp’s nerd capital: gaming center Outpost, where card games and role-playing still rule and where the LAN gaming rooms are teh awesumest.

The phone was a Nokia Navigator 6210. A pretty nifty device, although I felt it was a tad unresponsive at times.

It has 3G (HSDPA) but I doubt we had full access to that and were on EDGE most of the time. I did like the 2.4″ LCD screen though.

Great fun was had. Now letting us keep the phones after, that would’ve been a great Christmas bonus though.

Unfortunate.