Wow. At Tokyo's 2007 Game Show (9/20 - 9/23), NTT DoCoMo displayed "Peking Olympic Mobile Games", the official mobile phone game of next year's summer Olympics in Beijing. In one of the game's events, you put the phone down on a table and pump your arms like a sprinting runner. The phone's camera picks up your movements and accelerates your onscreen running character accordingly.
Also featured prominently was Echochrome for PS3, due spring 2008, in which "a doll-like figure walks through minimalist line drawings in which pathways become possible or impossible depending on the angle from which the scene is viewed. Echochrome codesigner Tatsuya Suzuki said the game was inspired in part by the art of M.C. Escher, and Hirai singled it out as "a very simple game, but...also very deep."
And of course, because its Japan, "the merchandise area of the show included a stall selling pillows bearing life-size images of fully clothed manga-style heroines whose grapefruit-sized breasts protruded in firm, caressable 3-D."
[Read the full article, with more coverage of the Tokyo Game Show 2007 on Yomiuri.com]
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