The stars of the game flocked to the annual EA Sports event to see some of the best players of the past and present square off in the popular video game.
During games, flocks of seagulls would descend upon the crowd, looking for scraps of food.
There are, of course, numerous reasons why crowds -- 52,484 at last year's Harvard game -- flock to New Haven when Yale plays a home game.
Every year in June, the great and the good of the games industry flock to Los Angeles for the video game extravaganza that is E3.
The success stories of the app store – Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, Doodle Jump – are widely publicised, but as game-makers flock to the service hoping their creations will become the next million seller, it's easy for even established developers to get lost in the melee.
Game devs flocked to Facebook, but soon it changed its news feed so game stories would only appear to other gamers.
We also know of systems that exhibit "intelligence lite" – the Google Car, NPCs in games, autonomous flocking drones, and smart rovers that can travel from Point A to Point B without tipping over.
Yet for the game's fervent flock there has arguably never been a better time to spread the gospel.
From the outset, it was obvious that there were too many people for the space; when groups overlapped in the Flock game, for example, the floor was just a mass of confusion.
With GameCircle, Amazon is trying to improve a very specific segment of that ecosystem, though it's unclear at this point how many game developers will flock to their APIs.
Like everyone else with software to sell, top-tier game developers are flocking to the iPhone, and gamers are reaping big rewards.
