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John Carmack: “We will have to make quality consessions on Xbox 360″
In a Quake-Con 08 interview with the GameTrailers crew, John Carmack (lead genius behind the engines of id Software) was talking about console development. He said that while the PS3 is harder to develop for (you spend more time separating the work and collaborating with all 8 processors) it is much better than “back in the [...]
Continue reading...POV-Ray 512-Byte Code Contest Winners
Sunday, February 17, 2008
This is pretty phenomenal. For the people reading this that used to follow the demo scene from the 90s (Future Crew anyone?), I guess there is a contest out there called the “POVRay Short Code Contest“. In the past contestants would submit pictures for the contest and see who could create the most technically compelling image [...]
Continue reading...NVIDIA Physics Engine, CUDA-Based
Friday, February 15, 2008
In a correction to yesterday’s story about NVIDIA integrating the PhysX engine work from the AGEIA purchase, Laurence Hartje sends in news that it looks like the physics engine is being ported to CUDA, NVIDIA’s software platform for executing generic code on a GPU. So it’s possible when the time is right, that this upgrade will [...]
Continue reading...NVIDIA to add PhysX Engine to Cards
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Grant Gochnauer sends along some pretty cool gaming news, Shack reports that NVIDIA confirmed they will be integrated the PhysX physics engine technology from the AGEIA purchase onto their graphics cards. The one thing I’m curious about is… how? These things weren’t small to start off with, looking like smallish video cards as it was: and they [...]
Continue reading...NVIDIA GeForce 9 Cards in Feburary and June
Friday, November 30, 2007
Wow… DigiTimes is reporting (via Engadget) that NVIDIA isn’t planning on releasing it’s revised GeForce 9 series cards until February ‘08 with the initial D9E high-end card, and then rounding out the offering with value parts in June. While not much is known at this point what the new cards will bring, a few goodies [...]
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Monday, August 4, 2008
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