Beyond3D Featured ContentIt's Dead Jim - a debate about the future of the graphics API
Love them or hate them, standardised IHV agnostic(-ish) graphics APIs have changed the landscape in a mostly positive way. Yet some bear them ill will. We set out for the truth about their future fate, hoping that we can handle it.
Words on the street of Taipei has it that optical drive OEM Lite-On IT expects to increase its shipments of DVD-ROM drives for the Xbox 360 at the eve of anticipated launch of the third Halo game, Microsoft’s biggest gaming franchise.
In an interview with Reuters, Masanao Maeda, corporate director of the
Sega Corp., voiced concerns over current pricing strategy of Sony’s
next generation console, PlayStation 3
Last year Microsoft used its Xbox Live Marketplace platform to bring demos and videos that were shown at E3 and other game events directly to gamers’ hard drives. This operation helped publicise many of the games displayed at these shows, as much as it was well received by Xbox 360…
AMD’s new front row processor line, Phenom, was expected to start
shipping by Q4 2007. According to DigiTmes, several motherboard makers
are now looking for a Q1 2008 release for the new processors after AMD
informed them of a delay in the production of the Phenom processors.
When we initially published on RV610 and RV630 the other day, we had a section outlining UVD performance. A section which wasn't quite right for a number of reasons, and didn't portray the real performance. Doh. We've since gone back and retested following a fix, and the results are now…
During an update of its network content, Sony made available a new firmware version for its console. A new video format playback support was added, as well as the backward compatibility functions of the console were updated for some games.
Today sees the official product launch of graphics boards based around RV610 and RV630, AMD filling out their D3D10 stack with the rest of the promised SKUs talked about when HD 2900 XT first appeared. We've spent a little time with HD 2600 XT and HD 2400 XT to see…
In a press release earlier today Nintendo announced the creation of a new Wii Shop Channel, Wii Ware, aimed at the distribution of downloadable video game content in exchange for Wii Points, Nintendo’s virtual currency.
Intel, which is looking into entering back the middle-to-high-end GPU market in a form or another, would probably have to pass the second gear with its driver development schedules if it wants it desktop endeavour to take off since sources close to motherboard AIBs report, via DigiTimes, that the semiconductor…
Reuters reports that Nintendo Company Limited, in the wake of the worldwide success of the Wii and DS, briefly passed Sony Corp. in market capitalisation and thus became the 10th most valuable company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange this Monday.
GarageGames have struck a deal with Microsoft to provide their XNA-based engine and builder software free to XNA Creators Club Premium members.
Mark Osborne, Editor-in-Chief of the quite specialised Semiconductor Fabtech, ponders whether the latest information heard from the wafer maker Soitec is not a confirmation that AMD had to postpone the production of its new Opteron processors line, codenamed “Barcelona.â€
Reuters reports today on the impressive performance of the Wii, in Japan, when compared to competitors’ offerings sale numbers. According to Enterbrain, a magazine publisher, the Nintendo Wii out sold its closest new generation rival, Sony’s PlayStation 3, 6-to-1.
AMD updated yesterday its schedule on its new quad-core Opteron, code-named “Barcelona,†availability. AMD’s new quad-core X86 is expected to ship in August this year, while OEM systems, powered by a “Barcelona†CPU, will arrive in September this same year.
Toshiba, primary backer of the HD DVD high-definition optical format, has announced that in September they will be bringing native output support for 24p (1080p@24fps) to several models in their range of HD DVD players via firmware update. A feature long desired by videophiles and fans of the format,…
Oddly enough for a technology with a moniker including the word turbo in it, Intel’s Robson (Turbo Memory) technology is expected to bee delayed for a quarter or two, according to DigiTimes.
According to an official letter NVIDIA sent to its OEM partners, the Santa Clara GPU maker plans to release a new variant of its SLI technology meant to leverage the presence of a NVIDIA IGP in a PC. DigiTimes translates the claims made by some OEM to HKEPC, which intercepted this letter (which was…
Microsoft wants gamers running its new OS as soon as possible. One of the incentive MS pushed to seduce the gaming crowd, other than bringing its fee-based Live online community platform to Vista, was to propose DirectX 10-only, and thus Vista-only, titles. Without any DX10 title around, MS opted for…
AMD has released version 7.6 of its Catalyst driver suite, bringing some performance and stability improvements to HD 2900 cards.
In a press release issued yesterday, middleware provider Fonix Speech, Inc announced the availability of its voice recognition API to the Wii platform. The Wii joins the PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox, Xbox 360 platforms as potential hosts for this middleware tool.