So, we have finally come to this: the final week of voting (as well as nomination) for the 2013 DiGi WWWoW Internet For All Awards. As mentioned last month, there are more than RM 165,000 worth of prizes to be won across 15 categories including a special trip to the HQ of Telenor (DiGi’s parent company) in Oslo, Norway.

Of course, the most important category of them all *AHEM* is the Fave Tech Head by Lowyat.NET whereby the winner will receive a personal hunting shopping trip at Plaza Low Yat accompanied by our fearless editor, Lucas Lau together with a budget of RM 5,000. Not to forget, the shopping trip will also be documented and published on our site. In short, fame, glory and a brand new PC.

So once again, it is now the final week to submit and vote for the entries of this year’s DiGi WWWoW Awards before the judging phase takes place from 24 June onwards. Head on to the DiGi WWWoW Awards’ official website at www.wwwow.my to make your votes count.

We knew that there’d be a sequel to 2009′s sleeper hit “Plants vs Zombies” – PopCap Games revealed that much to the public last month. What they didn’t tell anyone, however, was a second PvZ game – one that, based on the reveal trailer shown at E3 2013, certainly looks like a lot of fun.

“No one really knows this game was coming,” as one developer puts it in PopCap’s developer diary video for “Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare”, the secret project PopCap had been working on. “PvZ: Garden Warfare” pokes fun at the super serious FPS genre both in the title as well as in the E3 reveal trailer in the same vein as its PvZ 2 reveal trailer last month – tongue in cheek humour that certainly looks like it will be mirrored in the gameplay in “Garden Warfare”. Don’t be fooled, though: “Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare” is powered by DICE’s Frostbite 3 engine – the same game engine powering EA’s Battlefield 4!

“Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare” completely changes the PvZ game, switching to a third-person shooter instead of the 2D tower defence game from 2009. Players choose from four “plant classes” with varying abilities as they battle against waves of zombies in over 10 “battlegrounds” with the same backyard feel from 2009′s classic. At E3, PopCap also announced a new four-player co-op and 24-player multiplayer mode, as well as availability of the game for the PC, Xbox One and Xbox 360 – so far, there’s no word on availability for the PS4.

For more info about what will surely be one of the most fun games to be released this year, check out the official website here and keep track of the developer diary videos.

Nokia Malaysia has announced the arrival of its new Asha smartphone, the Asha 501, to our shores. Built from the ground up to be a user’s first smartphone, the new Asha 501 brings the smartphone experience to lower price points.

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You’ve read about the new iOS 7 design and some of the new features the next generation mobile operation system from Apple from bring, how many of you are already excited and can’t wait to get your hands on it? The developers will get their hands on the beta version starting today, those lucky people, while the final version is scheduled for Fall this year, probably some time in September.

iOS 7 will be compatible with several existing iOS devices including:

• iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5
• iPod Touch 16GB
• iPod Touch 32GB / 64GB
• iPad 2, iPad with Retina Display, iPad mini

As for the features, hit the break to continue from part 1.

Warner Bros. has unveiled the first gameplay trailer for the upcoming “Batman: Arkham Origins” title. Interestingly, the trailer does not really show off much in terms of gameplay, although those familiar with the other two Batman Arkham titles should be able to see some familiar combat maneuvers such as the Dive Bomb, on top of some intriguing new ones involving the Dark Knight’s arsenal of gadgets.

More importantly, the main storyline and the cast of villains appearing in this game are all but confirmed. From the trailer we can see that Black Mask is offering an immense amount of money to anyone who can remove the Batman’s heroics from continuously thwarting the criminals plaguing Gotham City. We also hear the new voice talent replacing Mark Hamill as the Joker: Troy Baker, who, interestingly enough, has also provided the voice for many other characters in the Batman universe in the past including, surprise surprise, Batman himself.

Batman: Arkham Origins will be released worldwide on October 25th, on the PC and every major current and next-gen console. Until then, feast your eyes on the trailer above.

(Source: Batman Arkham (Facebook))

Early this morning, Apple took the curtains off its iOS 7, possibly the most exciting iOS version since the first iPhone hit the market back in 2007. The latest update, which will be available to consumers later this year, not only features a brand new interface, Apple also include a whole host of new features to change the way things work within its mobile operating system.

It’s a long list, almost everything has changed overnight so hit the break for a detailed explanation.

Finally, the day is here and it looks like the rumors we’ve read about with regards to Apple’s iOS 7 have been pretty spot on. Early this morning, Apple announced a brand new iOS 7 that features a completely redesigned interface that is well, flat. Say “hello” to a new lock screen, new icons, new fonts, new animations and a whole host of new features that is making me impatient because these changes will only be rolled out this Falls, probably about September.

Apart from the lack of 3D effects, the new iOS 7 is now more simple, and yet rather complicated at the same time. Clutters have been removed and sorted out into new menus. Icons and typography have been changed to allow for a bigger overall outlook that looks stunning on Retina displays, and Apple also added a hint of translucency and motion effects to make the changes even more outstanding.

Hit the break for the sweet details of the new iOS 7 interface.

In its essence, NVIDIA Shield is an Android handheld gaming machine in the shape of a game controller with a built-in 5-inch 720p retinal-quality touch display and powered by NVIDIA’s own Tegra 4 SoC. However, it is not just a one-trick pony: the NVIDIA Shield is also able to stream PC games remotely from a PC that is equipped with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 graphics card or above via GeForce Experience software.

Here, we captured in action during our little session with the folks of NVIDIA at the recent Computex 2013:

Do note that this particular unit is a pre-production model (a.k.a the Project Shield) but NVIDIA assured us that the main functionalities and abilities that we captured here are identical to the final product. We will be talking more about the differences between both variants (hint: not much) very soon, so stay tuned.