Show Me Your Poker Face

Play Technologies will shortly be releasing Show Me Your Poker Face, a video game featuring other players, all of whom will have their own unique body language and ‘tells’, which can help you guess just how open and honest they are.

Show Me Your Poker Face will also feature narrative running through the game, giving players the reason why they are playing and introducing card sharks, crime bosses and femme fatales.

Losing the game won’t just mean losing a game of cards. How well you read the other players could be all that stands between you and a set of broken fingers. Virtual broken fingers, that is.

Jon Sykes, Managing Director of Play Technologies said, “Only around 50% of a poker game in the real world is about the cards. The rest is about the other players, your ability to guess what they’re up to, the risks of bluffing and the consequences of losing.

“What we’re doing with Poker Face is recreating all of these other aspects of the game and creating what we believe is an exciting and compelling new way to enjoy poker as a video game.”

In a world we live where a computer can beat the best human players in the world will computer graphics be as easy or difficult to read as human faces? Time will tell.

Poker Face is being developed for the PC and Sony Play Station. The game is scheduled for release in autumn 2006.