DoCoMo, Sony To Create Mobile Phone Game System

A developer writes: "Sony and DoCoMo announced they will jointly develop on-line games worldwide. Sony, Motorola and JVC have greatly invested in a new Sun Authorized Java Virtual Machine which is also being used in the new Amiga computer. Founder of the UK based Tao Group and ex-Amiga developer Mr. Charig just returned from Japan for the launch of DoCoMo`s new Java technology based i appli service. Interestingly Tao demonstrated its technology running on the Dreamcast a year ago as well and recently it was announced that Sega is going to make games for new set-top boxes and mobile phones. BTW every C, C++, Java or Vitual Assembler written Amiga/Tao application can be executed code identical on top of other operation systems as well including Linux. :)" edhak also points to this BBC article on the possibility of worldwide handheld wirelessly distributed games, and gloats "Wipeout on a mobile!"

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That's it

[Shoeboy]

This is the last straw.
I'm never getting in an automobile ever again.
Jesus.
I though drivers were dangerous when they were talking on the phone, but this is ridiculous.
Anyone know where I can buy a tank or APC?
--Shoeboy

Java dead?

[macpeep]

Funny how Slashdot used to be full of people talking about "the death of Java" in past tense. It's pretty amazing how Java keeps finding new homes these days.. First it was applets in the browser; bad Java VM's and even worse coders who gave Java a bad rep ruined that. Then there was the servers, which worked great (maybe the coders are better, at least the VM's are) and now there seems to be something of a comeback of Java to the client side with digi-TV and cellular Java.. First Symbian, then Siemens, then Nokia, Sega, Sony, Motorola.. I'd say Java is about as far from dead as can be - and this is DESPITE Microsoft's furious efforts to kill it.

i can see the pileups now...

[AugstWest]

You are at a red light
>wait

You are at a red light
>wait

You are at a green light
>look

You see three people crossing the street while talking on cell phones and a man with a white-tipped cane.
>go north

You have killed 3 pedestrians and avoided the blind man, for a total of 300 points.

Where to go for the SDK and Doc

[phlake]

Sun's got a bunch of info at JavaSoft.com if you wanna switch from the consumer angle to the developer angle...

Buzzword City

[CarrotLord]

So now we have mobile wireless internet access, PS2, Java, Amiga, Distributed Online Games, Linux, set-top boxes and multitudes of other buzzwords buried in links all in the one story...

Is there a story that could possibly have more?

:)

rr

Are you playing with your mobile phone?

[ackthpt]

Space Invaders? Ok, when the CPU's get up there and they cram some dense memory in there, sure, but this is as silly as trying to play games on one of those silly watches they sell at Toys R Us. It could be color, it could have sound, it could be BattleTech XXVII, but it's still a freaking tiny screen. With cell phones ever shrinking, into the size of ballpoint pens, why not just make a better Game Boy and have it do phone?

--

Fusty knew this would happen.

[3G]

Justin Hall (of Gamers.com fame, among other things) predicted this would happen a while back, and offered up some insight into its ramifications. Imagine the whole (unwired) world taking part in a series of games that never really end, only evolving over time. The Internet introduced the concept to a large degree (Everquest, anyone?), but the mobile Internet makes this a truly personal experience. Pick just about anyone on the planet out for a match of Quake 3 Arena at wireless broadband speeds, or role-play with friends anytime anywhere. A whole new way of interacting with people is introduced, and over the next couple of decades it'll prove itself to everyone just how revolutionary the idea is.

How about 3D graphics?

[fmaxwell]

Here's my idea. Instead of the driver just talking on his cell phone or playing a regular boring old video game, the phones could have an interface to a "game helmet." The game helmet would have dual LCD screens for 3D, a surround sound system, and could have acoustic insulation to block out all external light and noises (e.g., car horns, screeching tires, people screaming, etc.) so the driver would not be distracted from his video game.