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20:25 11th February 2010
Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield has unveiled his latest web venture, a multiplayer game named Glitch.
"We want to reach as large an audience as possible. We want to do for online gaming like what the Wii did for consoles," Mr Butterfield told BBC News.
The 2D platform game, which is initially set in a surreal, utopian future one billion years from now and allows players to work together to solve puzzles, will begin limited testing "in the next week or so" and will start to roll out in a limited form in the summer.
Its final version is intended to launch in autumn 2010.
In other news, a group of key figures behind the development of MP3 have launched MusicDNA, a new music file format that will offer videos, lyrics, artworks, blogs as well as songs.
"We can deliver a file that is extremely searchable and can carry up to 32GB of extra information in the file itself," said Dagfinn Bach, who worked on the first MP3 player in 1993.
Written by Paul Davis
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