wallFour announces they will debut Renga during a live event at GameCity6 in Nottingham, England at the end of this month. Renga is a co-op strategy game played simultaneously by 100 players. This may not sound that impressive in this era of MMOGs, until you learn that these 100 players are all playing on the same screen. As you might imagine, this means it's not played on a 24" monitor:

Groundbreaking new live event company wallFour are presenting the world premiere of their 100-player game on a cinema-sized screen at this year’s GameCity festival. The one-off evening performance on Thursday 27th October will be hosted in the festival base on the Old Market Square in the centre of Nottingham.

Renga is a massive co-operative game for 100 simultaneous players that combines strategic conquest elements from games such as Civilisation with action phases inspired by old-school arcade classics such as Defender. The title refers to a form of collaborative poetry with 100 verses that blossomed in 15th century Japan. The entire audience is able to directly control game elements in parallel using hand-held laser pointers pointed at the screen. The game rewards coordinated pointer movement but allows formations to emerge without advance planning as players observe other points of laser light and join emergent groups, like an improvisational dance.