The fourth Metal Gear Solid is still in the in the middle of construction, but series mastermind Hideo Kojima is already brainstorming his next game, an pay-to-play online game where you hand over cash in exchange for stumbling around as a zombie.
"The zombie idea I have is a bit different," he told our colleagues at Edge magazine. "Imagine a large town where half the inhabitants are zombies. Users would subscribe, get inside the town and get bitten. At that stage they become undead and can't control their character - all they can do is...
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China, still working on its long-delayed homegrown third-generation wireless standard, has leapfrogged itself by launching the world's first fourth-generation standard, state media said on Monday.
Data-rich 3G telephony -- which allows high-speed transmission of data and images -- is not yet available in mainland China.
But a group of 10 "leading domestic institutions" called the "FuTURE Project" on Sunday rolled out 4G in Shanghai.
China aims to hold field tests for the 4G system -- whose rollout has cost $19.3 million; and will...
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The first batch of 80 computers powered by home-grown Chinese CPUs are undergoing user tests. This means the home-made chip Godson II E has finished lab tests and moved into pilot commercial operation.
Lemote, based in Changshu, in east China's Jiangsu Province, will put a total of 1,000 computers on the market before the Chinese Lunar New Year.
The computer, which uses a Linux operating system, comes with a 40-gigabyte hard drive and 256 megabytes of memory. It costs 1,599 yuan (about 200 U.S. dollars), and users have to buy the...
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For more figures with unfeasibly large features you can simply enter this gallery, with how carefree your company is in regards to massive man-made mammaries dictating how safe for work it is.
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Sydnt, a Korean company, offers a new webcam in their Volvox product range. It has a 1.3Mpix sensor, is able to capture video at 30fps with a 640x480 resolution, and measures the size of a USB key.
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Today 20 firms -- representing 97 percent of the DVD manufacturers in the country -- displayed 80 players and announced plans to switch from DVD to the new format exclusively by 2008. EVD (Enhanced Versatile Disc) joins VMD as a low cost alternative to Blu-ray and HD DVD, using conventional red lasers combined with advanced compression technology to put high definition movies on discs.
This "Red-ray" HD approach promises to support resolutions up to 1080p without a need to increase disc capacity significantly, and will allow them to launch...
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Taiwanese superstar Jay Chou launched Motorola's thin, Linux-powered Rokr E6 multimedia phone, at the ITU Telecom World tradeshow this week in Hong Kong. The fourth-generation music phone is just over half an inch thick (14mm), and features a 2-megapixel camera and business card reader.
Motorola CEO Ed Zander said, "The MOTOROKR E6 redefines users' experiences with traditional music and PDA devices."
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