I expected to find a mobile video game angle at the Tokyo Game Show. I spent two days wandering booths, poking at buttons and collecting brochures and business cards. Meanwhile, turns out I had missed the mobile gaming workshop - evidently a hotbed of discourse on the state of portable entertainment.

My mental deadline was September 30. But travelling between hotels and appointments and good smart friends kept me writing until late October 1. So I was stuck with some strong impressions of physical action games that were only tangentially wireless and the memory of directly controlling a physical object with a mobile phone. Working the latter angle resulted in a fun article that didn't come together until later than I'd hoped or expected: TheFeature :: Mobile Reaching Robots.

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