The Infonaut and Game Guy attended the stellar second-year installment of Video Games Live at the Hollywood Bowl tonight. The concept is brilliant in both theory and execution - bring live professional philharmonic orchestration (in this case the house orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl) of video game scores to the stage with mutliple video screens displaying game play. The performance was a perfect object lesson in convergence. Bright lights from cell phone content creators speckled the bowl, in what was a wonderful interplay of digital entertainment and analog music. An early medley took on an ironic feel, beginning appropriately with Pong, and then bouncing to more artful titles as Metal Gear Solid 2, the obscure noir Grim Fandango from Lucas Arts and crowd pleasers (standing ovation) for the Mario franchise, Tetris, and the rousing World of Warcraft. With the new absence of E3, shows like this are going to be a great new forum and revenue stream game publishers. The show’s apex was a mindblowing mashup of Steve Vai, jamming out on his LED-lit guitar with licks from a teaser from Halo 3, one of 07’s most highly anticipated titles.