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."
In the village of Laishui, about 100 miles southwest of China's capital city, Li De Yin runs a small workshop that seems frozen in pre-industrial time. Bare-chested workers heat copper bowls over an open-coal fire then hammer the yellow metal into hot pots, the Chinese version of fondue pots.
But walk into Li's tidy bedroom, and an ice-blue glow lights the room. It comes from a state-of-the-art personal computer whirring beside a twin-size bed, an audio and video hookup at the ready, in case Li needs to speak to a customer.
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Sales of the PS3 in Japan fell by almost half in the first full week of availability, and low shipments are being blamed for the lackluster sales, say gaming company Enterbrain. The site had estimated that 88,400 consoles sold in the first two days of launch, but from November 13 to 18 only 43,378 sold. Sony will not comment on the report, but said it was continuously shipping new consoles.
Data for the US is not yet available, although it is likely that sales will follow a similar pattern. At issue is the Blu-ray disc drive within the...
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