From big industry players to indie developers and twitchy live streamers, TGS had everything a dedicated follower of gaming could desire.
The News Lens
Date: 2018/02/12
By: Jules Quartly
After being immersed in the Taipei Game Show (TGS) for five days you slip into a kind
Credit: Jules Quartly
of mirror world of imaginary landscapes populated by terrorists and monsters, nubile women, loud music and incessant explosions. It’s easy to think of the world outside as a pale and boring imitation.
Particularly so, when all the fun is being broadcast and dissected in real time on your phone. It’s all so meta, a self-reinforcing loop of gamers and IRL (In Real Life) streamers, who comment on the action as you watch both the event and its online version. For the surging population of zhainan (宅男), homebodies who typically sit in their comfy chairs and reach out to the world through a screen, TGS is life lived large.
It’s also big business and hence the large contingent of mega companies that attended the show. Sony gave gamers a preview of their latest offerings, including “Shadow of the Colossus” and “Detroit: Become Human,” plus the recently released “Monster Hunter”. The Japanese company also roped in sports anchor and celebrity Hsu Chan-yuan (徐展元) for the “NBA 2K18” finals. Sega Games set up consoles for its new releases, while Taiwan’s Bandai Namco was determined not to be outdone with its burgeoning product lineup. France’s Ubisoft, meanwhile, gave away a Harley-Davidson on the final day of the show. [FULL STORY]
