Daft Punk @ GDC

Not really. But the French duo was played at both of the convention's major keynotes. Just prior to Phil Harrison's talk Sony staged some emergent gameplay -- a soccer match played with inflatable soccer balls. The song "Around the World" looped as the audience batted the huge balls toward their respective goals.

Before Shigeru Miyamoto's keynote today Nintendo looped a handful of Daft Punk songs from Discovery. "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" was noticeably absent.

In semi-related keynote music news, the creators of Little Big Planet played a good part of the Go! Team's debut record Thunder, Lightning, Strike during their presentation.

It should also be noted that Sony is still milking the mash-up meme -- one they've been mining since the PSP unveiling at CES several years ago. One mash up, featring 50 Cent, seemed like a direct bite of a pairing from Girl Talk's Night Ripper.