One of the most anticipated titles for the PS3 and Xbox 360 is Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed, an action / adventure game based in the time of the Third Crusades. Your goal as Al Tair, the game’s hero, is to assassinate nine people with a vested interest to keep the war going on.
You can never have enough information on the hottest games to come, so hopefully, this interview gives you something new or whets a few appetites.
Spore. Where do we even start with Spore? Well, we could start with a single living cell and from there go on to conquering space. How does that sound? This is what EA’s game is.
Most people with but a little interest in videogames will know what the game is. For those that do not know it, here is a brief rundown:
The game has got five stages. The first one is where you start off in a tiny drop of water and try to survive and feed the single cell. Then you go to land, make babies with female creatures of your kind, then you start a settlement, turn it into a city, conquer continents, planets, solar systems and… entire universes.
Along the way, you get to choose how your cell develops, what it becomes and how it behaves in the future. Throughout the entire game, you will be able to have full control over where your cell / creature / civilization is headed. Based on your choices in the editor, the game figures out how whatever you did there will affect the world and behave in it.
In theory, the possibilities are endless.
At Games Convention, Wire has had the opportunity to get a preview of the game and an interview with one of the developers. Take a look:
This year’s Tokyo Game Show, to be held September 20-23, will be the largest since the event’s inception in 1996. The Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association (CESA) announced the details in a press release today.
TGS is expected to be the world’s largest game industry convention, in the wake of the downscaling of E3. Only the Leipzig Games Convention rivals TGS in scale.
In the past, the three-day show had the first day open only to those in the gaming industry. This year, a second industry-only day was added.
From the press release, in Engrish:
As of July 31, the projected participation in TGS2007 is 168 exhibitors occupying 1,708 booth units. This would make it even larger in scale than the largest past show (148 exhibitors, 1,701 booth units, in 2006).
This may be attributable to the fact that this year marks the full-scale introduction of software titles for the new game platforms released over the past 1~2 years. With numerous major titles set to go on sale, this year’s game show serves as an ideal forum for titles to steal a lead in the run-up to the critical end-of-year/New Year’s sales season, which can be expected to draw even greater interest from visitors to last year’s event.
The show will take place at the Makuhari Messe Convention Center in the western region of Chiba Prefecture, close to the Tokyo Disney Resort. It is expected to draw 180,000 visitors. Sony CEO Kaz Hirai is scheduled to give the keynote address.
