We sat down with Chris Taylor, CEO of Gas Powered Games and creator of the Dungeon Siege series for a chinwag about his new game Space Siege that’s out in Europe on 22nd August.

For more info on the game, click here.

And so continues the somewhat epic saga of the conference. So, after yesterday’s incredibly exciting speeches post, the morning took slightly more comic proceedings. This was through the Marketing Dept’s presentation for some of our upcoming top titles for the year; namely Sonic Unleashed, Madworld, Samba de Amigo and Empire: Total War, all done in the style of the classic game show - The Generation Game.

It turns out that the President of SEGA Europe, Mike Hayes, was on the show in question during the 1980s. Somehow this footage was discovered and then aired at the conference - I suppose you had to be there but I can tell you it was pretty amusing. After this, there was a series of Generation Game style challenges relating to the top titles. Members of the audience were ‘invited’ to take the stage and make a plasticine model of Sonic the Hedgehog in celebration of Sonic Unleashed, draw the Jack (the lead in the upcoming Madworld) and then shake the rhythms out on Samba de Amigo.

While Marketing Director Gary Knight was playing the part of Brucie with an uncanny realism, various members of the audience won prizes for their artistic prowess. In the Samba de Amigo competition, meanwhile, two of our most senior directors took to the stage and shook their maracas (donning ponchos and sombreros of course).

For those Brits reading this who remember The Generation Game, you may recall the final conveyor belt round. For this, picture puzzles of some of SEGA’s upcoming titles rolled along a screen, then classic games and a few retro SEGA titles. I must admit that I wasn’t the best at this, but I still managed a few. I was particularly hopeless with the classic games, but I’ve got to say I’m more a fan of the modern stuff. Do I court controversy? Err… Probably… More tomorrow.

*artists impression of Brucie
P.S. I was struggling to cut through all the legal issues of putting up a Bruce Forsyth picture on our blog, so I drew this one in fifteen minutes using paint and a few Photoshop effects. Hope you like it. Martin has informed me he will be drawing a portrait soon as well so maybe we can see who’s best.

P.P.S. if you don’t know what Brucie really looks like then you should check out the link above.