There’s a new Lair trailer, a playable demo at TGS, and IGN has put up a comprehensive interview. We’ve known of the existence of this for a while but no details have been released at all. Now, we finally get some real information!

This game sounds awesome. These are accomplished developers and they clearly love the PS3 and make full use of it’s features including Blu-Ray storage, the tilt controller, and full 1080p. The screenshots look amazing. The trailer is only cut scene footage (although it looks really cool), but we should get real gameplay videos from the TGS playable demo soon. The interview is a very interesting read.

IGN says it looks amazing but is clearly early in development. It’s still early to say for sure, but I’m definitely excited about this one.

Lair Interview
Lair Preview

EA has annonced that their project code-named Project Gray Company is actually going to be the game Lord of the Rings, The White Council. The game is scheduled to ship in late 2007 for the PS3, as well as the PC and Xbox 360.

Not much is known about the game, but there is a little info. Executive producer of the game Steve Gray said, “You can choose to follow specific Story Quests, embark on a range of other types of quests, or set off on your own adventures in the massive open world environment.”

In case you’re yearning for some videos and screenshots, IGN has some.

I have LOTR:RotK for the PS2 and it’s a great game, and I’ve been playing it co-op (of course) with my friend Mike. We got stuck, though, on one of the levels and we haven’t played it since. Of course, these two games are totally unrelated, so I don’t know why I mentioned that. Just to express some frustration I guess.

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Factor 5, known for its lush Star Wars games for the GameCube, is developing Lair for the PS3. Basically, it’s a game with lots of slimy looking dragons. The trailer is brief, and just shows a very icky looking dragon flying about, fighting another dragon, and joining a legion of other dragons (not necesarily in that order). SCEA has learned their lesson from E3, and at the beginning of the trailer it says that everything therein consists of in-game footage.

The Factor 5 website has no information about Lair, just pointing to the IGN website.

PS3 IGN - Lair - Main Page
Gamespot - Lair - Main Page (no info yet)