1UP has a great take on the prurient Western conversation about Japanese sex games. This thoughtful piece both examines what our obsession with “perverted” Japan says about us, and the actual place of these games in Japanese culture. For the interested, a great companion piece is Richard Bernstein’s
Over at Wired, a really good look at the pared-down Tokyo Games Show, which Microsoft did not attend for the first time in god knows how long, which featured a lot more “social and smartphone games” (read: NURT REEL GMEZ d00d) and a which ended in a well-attended rearranging-the-deck-chairs-contest.
Remember yesterday when I wrote “this is an industry in which creating a new story and a new set of characters is now considered a flamboyant risk”? Neither do I. But Yuji Naka, in this illuminating interview with the Verge, voices much the same sentiment. Imagine how sad it would be if great direct
