The China Digital Entertainment Expo in Shanghai

The 7th China Digital Entertainment Expo took place in Shanghai last week. As ever, the entertainment industry demonstrated its shameless obsession with parading hordes of scantily clad "booth babes" to help promote its wares …
  
  


China Digital Expo: Models pose by a character from Blizzard's forthcoming video game
The gold chap in the middle is a character from Blizzard's upcoming realtime strategy game Starcraft II. We don't really know the purpose of his female cohorts Photograph: PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images
China Digital Expo: A model takes a picture of another one wearing Nvidia's special glasses
Working hard … an nVidia model takes a picture of her colleague. Who said that wearing 3D glasses would never catch on? Photograph: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images
China Digital Expo: A video game character stands at a booth
Is it a bird? Is it a rabbit? Is it a ... heaven knows. But it's probably wise not to mess with it Photograph: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images
China Digital Expo: A visitor tries an electronic punching machine
Step aside! One show visitor demonstrates his muscular prowess, presumably to impress a gaggle of swooning booth babes off-camera. Photograph: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images
China Digital Expo: Models take a break under a counter
The lid is taken of the latest shipment of booth babes Photograph: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images
China Digital Expo: Two women look at a character from Blizzard's forthcoming video game
Two more of the ever-present booth babes admire another character from Starcraft II Photograph: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images
China Digital Expo: Visitors crowd a stage where models pose
Booth babes get ready for a game of Celebrity Squares ... now they just need some actual celebrities to turn up Photograph: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images
China Digital Expo: Visitors try new video games
Some show visitors actually took the time to check out the games on the floor rather than the booth babes Photograph: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images
 

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