Is Your Homework Haunted? Try the Spirit Camera on 3DS

Using the dog as an excuse for casually forgetting to do work is a tad outdated. How about claiming your notebook is haunted?

Nintendo and Tecmo Koei are working together to create a unique 3DS experience that relies heavily on AR and the use of what may look like a regular old notebook, or in this case, game manual. Bundled in with Spirit Photography: The Possessed Notebook is a specifically designed book that's vital in getting you through the spooky adventure - simply point the 3DS's cameras towards set pages and voila.

Ghosts and other ghouls pop out from the pages - and you'll need to use this to help solve the mysteries of this possessed text and break a deadly curse. Friends can join in on the action with a camera mode to snap the living with the virtual dead.

Spirit Photography: The Possessed Notebook is due out January 12 in Japan.