Now here's a nice piece of randomness that's related to the Pogo.com and Bizarre Creations-developed Xbox Live Arcade title Boom Boom Rocket, and a particular piece of architecture in it.

Anyhow, as you play the game, you may have spotted a particularly weird elongated egg-shaped building as part of the skyline that you fly around while doing your rhythm action. (Try as I might, I can't find a picture or video online that shows it clearly - if anyone can, please mention it in comments!) Anyhow, as I was wandering around London last week, I spotted the very same building, or an approximation thereof:

Well known to Londoners, the building is called 30 St. Mary Axe, aka 'The Gherkin', and "..is 180 m (590 ft) tall, making it the second-tallest building in the City of London, after Tower 42, and the sixth-tallest in London as a whole." Although developers Bizarre Creations are located in the North of England, they obviously decided it would be a nice shape to reference. It really does feel a bit War Of The Worlds, incidentally, like a gigantic alien egg has landed in London. [Ta to Jon, I think he mentioned this first?]

Oh, and while we're talking about game references to, uhh, 'The Gherkin', Wikipedia also mentions: "The PlayStation 2 game The Getaway 2: Black Monday used the building as the fictional headquarters of the Skobel Group, and it is featured prominently in the game."

[UPDATE]: A tip of the hat to Edelman/Microsoft's Arne Meyer, who went above and beyond the call of duty by locating and screen-capturing the virtual building in question, as seen in Boom Boom Rocket for Xbox Live Arcade. Obviously, it's surrounded by bigger skyscrapers than the real-life version, but you get the general idea, yay: