Multiplayer online games could be made more robust and immersive by using peer-to-peer (P2P) networking to let players store part of a virtual universe on their own computer.
Game designers have announced plans to deploy an online multiplayer game world capable of supporting a million simultaneous players.
A distributed supercomputer games network now in development could for the first time enable more than a million people to play graphics-rich games together via the internet. When the "Butterfly Grid" is up and running, its creators say that online games will run faster, be more reliable and may never need to shut down for maintenance.
The Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry has decided that the export of PlayStation2 should be restricted because its powerful processor could be converted for use in missiles that read visual information to home in on targets.