According to GameSpot, HP wants to get into handheld gaming. Dubbed the Mscape, this new gaming platform utilizes GPS sensors. These allow for location-aware adventure games.

"HP Labs has been working on the Mscape technology for about two years," said Patrick Goddi, a company researcher in Palo Alto, Calif. "It’s the underlying layer that game developers could use to take advantage of sensors like GPS (global positioning system) or accelerometers like the ones in the Wii controller," he said.

The early concept involves a handheld and a series of small sensors that a game organizer could lay out around a city or park. Those sensors would trigger certain events in the game, like a bonus level or an attack by the bad guys, based on a small demonstration of the concept here.

Certainly there is much competition in the gaming arena already with Nintendo and Playstation.  Is there room for HP? Time will tell.

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