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OK, so this has been reported a bit already, but over at Gamasutra, the jetsetting Brandon Boyer wrote up Keita Takahashi’s GameCity keynote speech today, in which he mainly discussed his upcoming PS3 game Nobi Nobi Boy, - but it’s worth pointing out this part:
“[Takahashi] used Google Earth to show the audience his childhood home, his current apartment building, and the Namco Bandai headquarters, then double-clicked a Nottingham bookmark and let the application slowly zoom out and pan to the UK. Here, he showed photos of a local park site, where he revealed that he had been commissioned to design a new playground – oft cited as what he might like to do following his game design career.”
So yeah - after famously commenting in the past that he might want to make a play area, looks like Iain Simons and the folks at GameCity have hooked it up for […]
Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (Simon Carless) and software by Elliott Back
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